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

[andrew nevins]

I did the same questioning as Josh about a year ago, and from an outsiders
perspective it really is puzzling why he's tagged. But you need to
experience it with him to understand


On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Mark Ratledge <mark at markratledge.com>wrote:

> From my experience, he's an habitual offender of being quite cranky with
> OPs's and giving wrong answers. I've never bozo'ed him, but I've never
> questioned the bozo. (As outlined before, the bozo tag lets mods approve
> each post.)
>
> Any other mods have experience with swanson/pioneervalley?
>
> -- songdogtech
>
>
> On May 17, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Josh Lobe wrote:
>
> > Okay... like this profile user:
> > https://wordpress.org/support/profile/swansonphotos
> >
> > I know I see him on WP forums all the time... helpful... polite... etc.
> > How do you find out why he is b-tagged?
> >
> > *Josh Lobe*
> > WP Edit Pro <http://wpeditpro.com>
> > Personal Website <http://www.joshlobe.com>
> >
> > 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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