*Shotgun Blast* *Shotgun Blast* *Shotgun Blast* Sorry Eli, I'm at work right now. I'll clean up when I have break time. This wave seems done.
Ya know, I think Mene overreacted here. It was a normal spam attack. Nothing like the social groups thing. THAT was bad.
Is it really that easy to spam Touch Arcade? I think there's just certain times of the day/night when moderators/spam squad are less active and the scum come out.
I agree with Mene; there feels like a noticeable increase in spam or, if not in quantity than duration, maybe a decrease in responsiveness with deletions. For example, the prior most recent post in the site feedback right now is spam. Not that I'm complaining; unavoidable hazards of the web.
Actually from my end, I noticed it comes in bursts a lot more than it used to. A while ago it used to be consistent and fairly random. More recently there's a burst of a dozen or so spammers, a reprieve, then another burst and so on. So even if someone's online to delete them, it might take them some time to get through everything one by one. We get notifications for every post you guys report. For my part, if I'm awake and not otherwise occupied I try to respond to reports within the hour, so reporting spam does help. A lot. Huge thanks to those of you who do it! <3
As you say theyre mostly seperate which is a pain rather than some huge chunk Plus a lot dont get reported, every morning i check new posts and try and find anymore of these annoying spam messages. (And delete peoples posts who dont report it and instead quote them !) Still it feels good nuking them, specially when you see on the spammers profile theyre creating a new post , so you 'zap them' and you know they wont be able to finish what they're doing. Scum all of them !
Not complaining, more curious but why when you report spam does it take 20+ seconds to process the report?
I always report any spam i see, I use the app though and pressing once doesn't seem to do anything, when I press the second time it I tells me I have to wait 60 seconds so I never know if it's actually been reported, could a mod confirm that any of my reports get through? Agree about the 60 second thing making it difficult to report, I know it's not a long time in the grand scheme of things, but would make reporting quicker if it were reduced or done away with altogether, especially in cases where more than one spammer is active.
You really don't need to report every spam thread, usually when there's one there's a bunch and it's pretty obvious.
I don't report every thread, just one post by the spammer, and on the occasions there's more than one person I'll try report one by them too, after reading psj say the more the merrier and it's better to report than not to on a recent thread I've been trying to do it more instead if just assuming it'll get picked up.