Phirate - Forum Spam

2/10/08 19:08

A solution to this problem is in the works.

Essentially, much of the stuff we're talking about as spam is only spam because it's in the wrong place. It is site promotion, and Entrecard is about helping bloggers promote their site.

The problem is that we have mechanisms for site promotion, and then we have mechanisms for community. The two are being confused, and people are trying to use community mechanisms for promotion (ie, message spam).

We intend to provide proper site promotion mechanisms to match the currently abused community ones, which will allow us to provide better tools for managing the few who continue to misbehave.

For the moment, please do just flick the URL for any post you feel is spammy into the feedback box and it will be dealt with. Sometimes we leave the post there and simply keep track of the user concerned and then remove their forum access after they have demonstrated a trend - a short term loss but long term win.