Spam and Abuse Watch

Nelek21-Jul-16 21:55

Nelek

21-Jul-16 21:55

Waiting months just to say that? D'Oh! | :doh:

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Gone

Richard Deeming22-Jul-16 1:37

Richard Deeming

22-Jul-16 1:37

Final kick applied.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

ZurdoDev22-Jul-16 4:02

22-Jul-16 4:02

Was that the only "abusive" comment they did? If so, it is inappropriate to post this message in this forum. The message itself has a flag to mark it as abusive which is what should have happened.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Richard MacCutchan22-Jul-16 4:08

22-Jul-16 4:08

Why is it inappropriate? This is the "Spam and Abuse" forum.

ZurdoDev22-Jul-16 4:19

22-Jul-16 4:19

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
Why is it inappropriate? This is the "Spam and Abuse" forum.

From the sticky post above, emphasis added on my part:

Quote:
The spam and abuse forum is a place to report content that may have slipped past other members. To have content removed, multiple members need to report a piece of content (or a member's account) and so if you find something abusive, or that is spam, hidden in a seldom visited corner of the site you can report it here so others can review and report (and hence close) if necessary.

As pointed out earlier, the message itself has a flag on it to mark as abusive.

My real problem is that, in my opinion, that was hardly an abusive comment. If you look at it from their point of view, they came here to get help and you told them to go somewhere else. Granted, I agree with your comment and would have told them the same thing. But OP replying "no thanks for that "smart-ass" noise" hardly seems worth banning the user from the site. Surely we can be more thick-skinned than that.

If you had just posted a link to the message and claimed abuse and not a link to their profile I would not have had any problem with it. There is a sense in this forum that no rude remarks are allowed yet we have several members who abuse others in the Lounge all the time that no one cares about. I am not pointing fingers at you, just stating that it is common for the standard to be much higher for newbies than for those who have been around for a while. I wish we were much more forgiving and not so quick to ban people. This is an open site, not a club.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Richard MacCutchan22-Jul-16 4:39

22-Jul-16 4:39

RyanDev wrote:
But OP replying "no thanks for that "smart-ass" noise" hardly seems worth banning the user from the site.

It wasn't the OP, it was someone else and this was their first and only comment after a year and a bit of being a member. So hardly a contributor to the site.

As to being thick-skinned, I could not care less what people call or say about me, I merely report the fact that the messager is being abusive.

RyanDev wrote:
If you had just posted a link to the message and claimed abuse and not a link to their profile I would not have had any problem with it.

I posted a link to both, so everyone could see and make up their own minds. And it would appear that 9 other members agreed and voted him/her off. If you feel that was wrong you can appeal to Chris.

ZurdoDev22-Jul-16 4:44

22-Jul-16 4:44

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
So hardly a contributor to the site.

As I pointed out earlier, this should be irrelevant but is often the determining factor.

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
I merely report the fact that the messager is being abusive.

But I never see you report the ones in the Lounge from our certain famous members who get away with much worse and quite often.

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
And it would appear that 9 other members agreed and voted him/her off.

There is no way you believe that all 9 of them actually did their due diligence. We all know people just come in and start reporting, trusting that the reporters did their due diligence.

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
If you feel that was wrong you can appeal to Chris.

It does not work.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Richard MacCutchan22-Jul-16 4:53

22-Jul-16 4:53

RyanDev wrote:
I never see you report the ones in the Lounge

The Lounge is a different forum, and some abuse is acceptable there. This was brought to my attention some time ago by 'himself' when I suggested a certain Australian was going a bit far.

RyanDev wrote:
There is no way you believe that all 9 of them actually did their due diligence.

That is hardly my problem, it's the way the site works.

RyanDev wrote:
you can appeal to Chris.
It does not work.

Not true, I see many issues where Chris has responded to requests from the community.

ZurdoDev22-Jul-16 5:00

22-Jul-16 5:00

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
The Lounge is a different forum, and some abuse is acceptable there. This was brought to my attention some time ago by 'himself' when I suggested a certain Australian was going a bit far.

Yes, proving my earlier point.

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
That is hardly my problem

I knew that would be your answer. Not a criticism, but simply a cop-out.

Richard MacCutchan wrote:
Not true, I see many issues where Chris has responded to requests from the community.

Well your first sentence in this post proved my point as well as I have reached out to him before, and nothing.

Again, I suggest we be much more forgiving and much less trigger happy.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Richard MacCutchan22-Jul-16 5:16

22-Jul-16 5:16

RyanDev wrote:
Yes, proving my earlier point.

Does not prove anything.

RyanDev wrote:
I knew that would be your answer. Not a criticism, but simply a cop-out.

No it's not a cop-out, it's how the site works, and I am content with that. If you don't like it then attacking me is not going to change things.

RyanDev wrote:
Well your first sentence in this post proved my point

Nothing I have written proves any of your points.

And at the risk of boring you: go and complain to Chris. If you don't want to do it in an open forum you have his email.

RyanDev wrote:
I suggest we be much more forgiving and much less trigger happy.

I am forgiving of lots of poor questions and comments every day. The point about the message I was reporting was that this person has done nothing on the site in over a year, apart from posting a pointless and abusive message in a single dead question.

ZurdoDev22-Jul-16 5:19