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How do we now report a post as spam? Guess I'm blind, but can't find it. Thanks.

ps. There are several spam posts out there, I think in Buying and Selling
 

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If you look at the bottom of your post, it says Nancy, how long ago you post and has a Report button next to that. You would use that Report button in the spam posts.
 

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For future reference, answers to most of your BBS operational questions can be found via the yellow BBS Help link in the blue navigation bar near the top of all bbs pages. This link takes you to the "Bulletin Board Help" sticky thread in the About TUG BBS forum.

In this case, under Reading/Searching Messages:
 

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Off topic slightly, it appears that it is the same persistent spammer who keeps creating id's and posting their spam. It is always the same - include a "poll" that has two options, both the same, and the post itself is full of nonsensical sentences.
 

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...it appears that it is the same persistent spammer who keeps creating id's and posting their spam. It is always the same - include a "poll" that has two options, both the same, and the post itself is full of nonsensical sentences.

I've noticed this as well, although TUG BBS Mods / Admin are certainly quite vigilant in sending them promptly packing (Thanks, Doug!).

What do you think the purpose of the oddball "polls" might be in those incoherent, English-language "challenged" posts? Just a "head count" to monitor whether the junk is even being read at all? Some other more nefarious intent or purpose? :shrug:
 

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You guys never see dozens of posts a week that get automatically thrown into the moderation queue thanks to XF's spam detection. For instance, posts from newbies that include links are trapped automatically and don't get seen publicly until approved by a staff member.

Unfortunately some of the bad guys have discovered our Xenforo bulletin board software's built-in spam checks are not applied in the polls section of posts .
 

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Can you restrict new guests from starting polls? Just reported a similar thread this morning.
 

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Can you restrict new guests from starting polls? Just reported a similar thread this morning.
Nope, not as presently configured. Would take a somewhat major rebuild of our usergroups.
 

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You could always consider switching it back like it was under vBulletin where only admins and mods could create polls?
 

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You could always consider switching it back like it was under vBulletin where only admins and mods could create polls?
Just had to kill another handful of these bogus spam posts with polls this morning. (Thanks for reporting them, everybody. Keep up the good work!)

Believe it or not, Xenforo only gives the admins a control over who can REPLY to polls, not who can CREATE them.
 

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Believe it or not, Xenforo only gives the admins a control over who can REPLY to polls, not who can CREATE them.
That seems odd. Perhaps there is some type of add on or extension that would provide this ability?
 

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yea, its rather bizarre...perhaps something they will address in a future patch/release.
 
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