adsii1970 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) Not meaning to sound dumb, but what is the "spam-o-matic"? I personally like my spam grilled and served under a bed of scrambled eggs with sharp cheddar cheese and some Tabasco sauce. Edited December 7, 2015 by adsii1970 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Spamomatic is a service that maintains lists of email accounts, user names, and IPs that have been used by spammers. Once placed on the list, any more post submissions from that identity are blocked. I believe blocked for all Spamomatic participants, but I'm not sure about that part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfluous J Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 5 hours ago, Red Iron Crown said: Heh, I changed all my streams to condensed view a while back. If you want to ignore certain forums, make a new stream, under content types select "Topics", then under the gear icon select all forums but those you wish to ignore. Could you be more specific? I cannot find the word "Topics" on any page in the forums I go to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adsii1970 Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Oh, Ok. makes sense to me. We had to do that in one of the forums I moderated for for SimCity. The only problem we ran into with the IP addresses is that if the original spammer used Internet access from a university, library, or other public area, and we blocked the IP address, we would often (and unavoidably) block access to those with legitimate accounts that had the same IP as the offending party. Now granted, that was about four years ago, so I am assuming that different protocols are in place or are you using a combination of IP, user name, and email addresses? We even tried shady looking email domains, but because a large number of our spammers had either Yahoo! or Excite email addresses, we could not place that entire email domain on the rejection list... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 14 minutes ago, 5thHorseman said: Could you be more specific? I cannot find the word "Topics" on any page in the forums I go to. It's an option when making a new activity stream. Picture worth a thousand words: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_v Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Where be the official bugtracker for this new forum thing? It all seems a bit disorganised around here, do we just keep spamming reports to random posts this section until some feedback appears or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4pt0r Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 @Red Iron Crown do you get notifications when you are tagged in posts, like so? I'm thinking of a forum game and I assume this is a feature(very facebook-esque), just confirming it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 @r4pt0r I do. You can configure whether you get notifications for being tagged in the Notification Settings screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 What are the most common questions from new users? I'm making a forum FAQ and I have no idea what is asked frequently. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Common ones so far that I've seen: "How do I insert an image?" "How do I delete a quote or spoiler block?" "Where are my subscriptions/friends?" "How do I do a single line break?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 5 minutes ago, Red Iron Crown said: Common ones so far that I've seen: "How do I insert an image?" "How do I delete a quote or spoiler block?" "Where are my subscriptions/friends?" "How do I do a single line break?" Thanks! Perfect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted December 9, 2015 Author Share Posted December 9, 2015 Oh, and "how do I change my avatar?" is a common one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Also: "What do the dots under usernames mean?" "How do I add rep to someone?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adsii1970 Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 and of course, who is Red Iron Crown and what really happened to Green Iron Crown... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trann Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Better yet, why is that red crown rolling forwards, then backwards, tilted upward, then downward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling!? (I'm dizzy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 (edited) Did we already have "How do I upload an image?" or "How do I share a craft file?". And some more questions came into my mind: "What is the great forum derp of 2013?" "What is the 'Rocket Builders' and the 'old forum' stuff people are talking about?" "How do I edit my signature/my custom title/my profile picture?" "How do I link images?" <- might get more common now. Edited December 9, 2015 by Kerdinand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 7 hours ago, Red Iron Crown said: Also: "What do the dots under usernames mean?" "How do I add rep to someone?" 7 hours ago, Dman979 said: Oh, and "how do I change my avatar?" is a common one. 7 hours ago, adsii1970 said: and of course, who is Red Iron Crown and what really happened to Green Iron Crown... 4 hours ago, Kerdinand said: Did we already have "How do I upload an image?" or "How do I share a craft file?". And some more questions came into my mind: "What is the great forum derp of 2013?" "What is the 'Rocket Builders' and the 'old forum' stuff people are talking about?" "How do I edit my signature/my custom title/my profile picture?" "How do I link images?" <- might get more common now. Some great stuff here! 6 hours ago, Trann said: Better yet, why is that red crown rolling forwards, then backwards, tilted upward, then downward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling!? (I'm dizzy) You know how some pet food bowls never seem like they will stop wobbling when you drop them? Like that, but red and endlesssssssss............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampa Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Would you guys mind if I just say, "Thank you for the changes to the Private Messaging system? It is SO much better than it was while on VBulletin!"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 Hey, just wanted to point out again that we are still able to like posts in the Forum Games section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Just now, Dman979 said: Hey, just wanted to point out again that we are still able to like posts in the Forum Games section. What's wrong? Don't you like games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) @sal_vager I do, very much. I just wasn't sure if this was something you were going to fix. Is it? P.S. It's Ask the Mods Questions About the Forums!, not Ask the Users Questions About the Forums! Edited December 10, 2015 by Dman979 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Unless it turns out to be an issue then I thing liking forum games is okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobymaru Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 So how does one actually pronounce @KasperVld? I alwas thought it was "Kasper Vlad", like "Vlad the Impaler", but I saw a Squadcast where Dr_Turkey made the same mistake, and KasperVld said that he was incorrect. He did not mention the correct spelling, however. Does anyone know how to pronounce it and what it stands for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Well, I´m no where near official but I always pronounce it like the german "Kasper", a kind of theatre character: Then I pronounce the letters, one after one, all in german. Hope I won´t get an infraction for "wrong pronouncing of the lead moderators name" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claw Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 4 hours ago, Kerdinand said: snip I do the same, though I don't know if it's technically correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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