[wp-forums] ShenZhen?

[kees meijer]

@cubecolour
This makes perfect sense and would make moderating spam a lot easier. +1. I
guess this would probably be a very expensive query if done on all the user
profiles. I'm all for blocking ShenZen profiles (in one go by Otto) that
already have 'bozo' and 'Akismet Never Trust' status. But that would
probably make them not reveal their location next time they register.

I hope this time my reply ends up in the right place.

kees

On 19 October 2012 20:58, Michael Atkins <michael at cubecolour.co.uk> wrote:

> Somthing I think would help dealing with this deluge of ShenZen spam much
> quicker than presently would be if there was a way for bozo-status to be
> viewed directly in the spam queue by displaying something under the
> username for posts in the spam queue by known spammers to indicate when the
> 'bozo' & 'akismet never trust' flags are set for those users.  Moderators
> then won't need to to go into the user profile to check whether each user
> is already marked as a spammer and any spam from previously flagged
> spammers can be dealt with much quicker than can be done currently.
>
> Hopefully this makes sense?
>
> Michael
> @cubecolour
>
> On 19 Oct 2012, at 19:09, Otto wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>
> wrote:
> >>> I was mostly thinking all the ones made this month, since they are
> >>> predominantly spamming right now.
> >>
> >> That's 575 users, but I can't think of any particularly easy way to
> >> "remove" them, or even to mark them as bozoes. It would take some
> >> direct SQL stuff. Lemme think about it.
> >
> > Okay, I figured out a quick way and have marked all of those as bozos.
> >
> > -Otto
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