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    [–]magnora7 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

    Fixed, thanks. You can report this type of thing to me by PM too

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      [–]magnora7 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

      Thank you. This seems to be an attack, they're really going nuts with it

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        [–]magnora7 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

        Yeah we have tools but we need to develop them further. I could really use a 'mark all posts and comments as spam for this user' button to remove bot-automated postings. I need help with programming this tool to help defend against this type of attack more easily. If anyone reading this thinks they can possibly help develop this button (using javascript/python/postgresql) for saidit please let me know.

        We could also probably use another content admin to watch over the site and help spot stuff like that earlier. VantaFount does a great job, but perhaps another person would be helpful. And removing that sort of thing would be way easier for all admins if we had the "remove all posts and comments from the user" button I just mentioned.

        So that's what we need to do next to better defend against these things. Someone just has to make it happen, and my hands are already full, so saidit could use some help.

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          [–]magnora7 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

          Yes it's a doable thing, but I have a lot of other things to deal with regarding saidit already, so I could really use some help.

          Good suggestion on the moderator toolbox, but I really need something that works at the admin level for even the subs I'm admin of but not moderator of. And there's a lot of other code with the toolbox as well, which makes it complicated. Ideally this should be about 5 additional lines of code.

          I think we can copy the functionality of the existing admin "spam" button... the code for it is here: https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit/blob/240ac6aa0169141ddf3a81531dd0c73f8c1a7809/r2/r2/templates/printablebuttons.m#L43

          Basically when the button is triggered we need to do event_action='spam' for every single post and comment from a user instead of just that one post... which d3rr says "You just need a controller that will get the user id from a link in the sidebar or something, then loading all posts by a user and removing as spam isn't that much code."

          So it's something like that... there will be a controller.py file probably that the 'remove all' button would trigger (similar to how the spam button works), and then that would write all the entries in the postgresql database for that user to have a spam marker set to 'true'.

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            [–]magnora7 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

            Yes that's how vantafount is. They can remove anything obvious (spam, porn, etc) and ban those users, but the tough calls fall back to me. Any additional admins would have a similar restriction.

            [–][deleted] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

            Why does s/Linux not have any mods? I'd think that, at least, would, but nope.

            Edit: it has mods now, great!

            [–]Drewski 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

            Temporary solution, you can click the block user button and it will hide all their posts.

            [–]MoseTheTruth 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

            Useless mods.

            [–]definitelyanewuser 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

            Gates is up to his old tricks I see

            it's more difficult to spy on people who use linux

            [–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

            I went on vacation for a few days. I'm back now. I'll work through all the backlog of stuff now. Thanks for the heads up.

            [–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

            I invited you to be mod on /s/linux so you can help prevent something like this next time, if you're interested.

            [–]sproketboy 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

            Better than what usually appears there.

            [–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

            If you'd like you can delete this thread now that the issue is resolved

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              [–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

              Great, thank you!

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                  [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (12 children)

                  I see it and I want it gone.

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                    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

                    Yes. It needs to go.

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                      [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

                      I hope they do it soon, and maybe put someone respectable and interested in Linux to mod.

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                        [–]Drewski 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

                        A shame, they were posting a lot of great stuff.

                        [–]runtis 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

                        Damn, anyone know why? They were a pretty good user

                        [–]noice 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

                        Hopefully they just wanted to start fresh with a new account.

                        [–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

                        Just sort by anything other than "hot" or "new" and your problem is solved without needing anyone's hand holding.

                        [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

                        Or we could simply get rid of the porn.

                        [–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

                        Just sorting by "insightful" works fine... or anything other than "hot" or "new".

                        Try to pretend this is like the way reddit was in 2006 and use the tools provided.

                        [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

                        i was enjoying it lol