[wp-forums] ShenZhen?

[Rich Pedley]

You know I did code something to help with this a while ago:
On 19/08/2012 21:14, Rich Pedley wrote:
 > hey all,
> I think I mentioned this ages ago, but I'll revisit now,
> especially with spam being on the increase again.
>
> I've just hacked together a quick bozo additional plugin that can
> separate out b-coded posts from the spam. But I'd need it to be
> double checked before it could be used.
>
> ie, as well as All, Normal, Deleted and Spam you'd have another
> filter for Bozo.
>
> From what I can tell from my tests Spam takes precedence, so a
> Bozo'd user posting spam should still be caught by Akismet and
> appear in the spam list.
>
> Would that be useful at all? I don't moderate anywhere near enough
> atm to know if others would like this or not.

But no one ever followed it up.

Rich



On 19/10/2012 22:32, Otto wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM, 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
>
> Easy enough. I added the (BOZO) status next to the username when in
> the admin spam queue. It'll be in red to make it stand out a bit.
>
> -Otto
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