How To Report a Spambot

[Wyboth]

Update: This is obsolete, and it has been requested by operators that players not report spam posts at all. Please do not use the report to moderator button if it is available to you.

Occasionally, we get a poster who advertises some sort of product or posts a bunch of links on the forums. This is called a spambot. They, as their name suggests, spam the forums. Their posts usually look something like this:

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They get in the way of normal forum discussion and need to be banned. If you see one, you can help out the operators tremendously by reporting them. You may think this entails a private message to an active moderator, but it doesn't. It's actually much easier. At the bottom of each post, you should see a button that looks like this:

If you click this button, it will send an e-mail to an operator telling them about the flagged post. Immediately after clicking the button, it will take you to a page that asks you for a comment about why the post needs to be reported. Just type "Spam" into the textbox and then continue. That's it! The post should be deleted soon. Of course, if you see any other post that needs to be deleted for any reason, you can click the report to moderator button and enter the reason in the textbox.

[SalsaInABowl]

Thank you for this imformative topic! I'm sure it will give more users something to do instead of replying "Cool Story Bro"

[RuthlessTomato]

I dont see the button >.<

[clawstrider]

As I was talking to Xeadin about earlier today, there is no report button for non-staff players.

[Wyboth]

I see them...

Edit: Screenshot of it.

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Why would only staff be able to report to mods? I mean, they are the mods!

[RuthlessTomato]

Stop arguing and look at novembera top voters for a sec! D:
Btw wyboth, werent you an op at 1 point?

[Hasan (Tabooti)]

Just something, It's impossible to ban them all. They only keep their thread up for a few minutes before deleting it themselves.

If you IP track them, they are all from some building in china. And no, They aren't bots. They are real Chinese people.

For example, Chinese prisoners are sometimes forced to play world of Warcraft for 11 hours a day, every day.

Now this may seem really awesome, but... They are forced to fly around, all day, mining. That's all they do! They just go around, mining all the nodes, and then they sell them to HordeWalmart in the auction house, They make a lot of money, THEN, the send the money to another account, and from that account they sell the currency for like 1$ per 1000g.

[Wyboth]

Stop arguing and look at novembera top voters for a sec! D:
Btw wyboth, werent you an op at 1 point?

No, but everyone thinks I was. Also, how is this an argument?

Just something, It's impossible to ban them all. They only keep their thread up for a few minutes before deleting it themselves.

If you IP track them, they are all from some building in china. And no, They aren't bots. They are real Chinese people.

For example, Chinese prisoners are sometimes forced to play world of Warcraft for 11 hours a day, every day.

Now this may seem really awesome, but... They are forced to fly around, all day, mining. That's all they do! They just go around, mining all the nodes, and then they sell them to HordeWalmart in the auction house, They make a lot of money, THEN, the send the money to another account, and from that account they sell the currency for like 1$ per 1000g.

Are... you... kidding?

[RuthlessTomato]

Just something, It's impossible to ban them all. They only keep their thread up for a few minutes before deleting it themselves.

If you IP track them, they are all from some building in china. And no, They aren't bots. They are real Chinese people.

For example, Chinese prisoners are sometimes forced to play world of Warcraft for 11 hours a day, every day.

Now this may seem really awesome, but... They are forced to fly around, all day, mining. That's all they do! They just go around, mining all the nodes, and then they sell them to HordeWalmart in the auction house, They make a lot of money, THEN, the send the money to another account, and from that account they sell the currency for like 1$ per 1000g.

Seems legit.


Anyway, do you have any sources to back you up?

[Wyboth]

Here, I will go through the process to prove that it's possible.

1. Click the report button when you see a spam post.

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2. Enter "Spam" in the textbox and hit enter.

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After that, it will take you back to the subforum that the topic was posted under.

[iGenerator]

People think you are a mod because you pretended to be one on the forum for a few weeks over the summer. I also do not said button

[Wyboth]

People think you are a mod because you pretended to be one on the forum for a few weeks over the summer.

No I didn't...

[Hasan (Tabooti)]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam

here is, PS that Bloodelf is hot.

[Terrewee]

here is, PS that Bloodelf is hot.

lol....

[clawstrider]

If everyone would stop yelling at each other, (And posting pictures of hot blood-elfs ) I have a suggestion:
Wyboth can obviously see it.
I can't and iGen can't.
Neither can Goalie.
The Staff already can.

I believe that something got screwed up in the website creation. Classic Ops can already see this report button, I know that for a fact, I spent nearly a year looking at it.
Snape can also see it (I think).
Maybe, just possibly, guest/recruits can see this button, and so can staff (Xeadin can also see it), yet builders/rankless cannot.