[wp-forums] What's with all the Bozo's?

[Josh Lobe]

Okay, good to know.
You all crack me up :)

That makes sense also.
I now see there are many counter-measures relating to spam, and keeping 
the forums clean.
I'll watch more closely to b-tagged folks, while I learn.

Thanks for everyone's time!

*Josh Lobe*
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On 5/16/2014 11:12 AM, Half-Elf on Tech wrote:
> You can TOTALLY bozo yourself :) If you post too many times in too 
> short a time, you will be b-tagged. Used to happen to me all the time. 
> James made me a mod to stop it ;) That may not be a joke.
>
> Also sometimes I'll bozo people for plugin abuse (spamming there) or 
> ideas (ditto). I almost always loop around to tag them in the forums 
> as well (Otto, where's my one button of power?).
>
> Jan Dembowski wrote:
>>
>> *Drinks coffee, wishes bozo was labeled "Time out room recipient for a
>> while so to keep an eye on that account" and realizes that's probably
>> too many characters*
>>
>> Josh Lobe wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I've looked back through prior posts... and didn't notice anything
>>> immediately obvious.
>>> I mean... a couple of these folk seem like genuine people.
>>>
>>> Can a BOZO happen automatically?
>>
>> I'm pretty sure (99.44%) that can and does happen.
>>
>> Occasionally someone will create a brand new account and the system
>> will flag it as bozo immediately. The automated system does learn and
>> if the account is from a domain or IP range that just spammed the
>> forums for the last 25 days (oh boy does that happen) then the new
>> account will also get picked up.
>>
>> If it' a real person and they post well then someone will eventually
>> uncode that account too.
>>
>> *Drinks more coffee*
>>
>> There's 2 ways for an account to be coded. One is that the automated
>> spam system made a determination that they should be coded. When I see
>> an account hitting the spam filter and only that one flag is set then
>> I'll usually un-code that account if there is nothing in their post
>> history that warrants that.
>>
>> Then there is another flag that indicates a moderator or higher put
>> them in the timeout room on purpose. That's usually for the reasons
>> that Mel said.
>>
>>>
>>> What's the threshold for a bozo?
>>> I mean, I'm sure harassment, solicitation, etc... qualifies.
>>> What about a genuine b-fest? A vented frustration towards a
>>> developer; or WP in general?
>>>
>>> I don't want to bozo anyone... don't have the authority, anyways.
>>> I'm just wondering if there isn't a 'glitch' somewhere in the system...
>>
>>
>> Coding someone's account doesn't do anything negative to that forum
>> member. It just makes more work for the moderators though because all
>> the posts do get reviewed.
>>
>> When an account is coded it just means that someone has to approve
>> those posts. It doesn't delete those posts but it does mean other
>> members will not see those posts till they are released. If the member
>> behaves then they will be let out of the timeout room unsupervised.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jan Dembowski
>>
>>
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