NinjaForge/Ninjaboard — Issue #67: Report Spam
Author: CaptainH00K
Created: 2012-01-01 21:50:34+00:00
State: open

Reported by **Svein W.**

> Running a forum can be a lot of work. One thing that can make the job a little easier is to have a good system for spam.
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> But this usually depends on the work done by somebody else - somebody reporting this as spam, and we get the benefit of the reports.
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> I would like to see spam reports on two levels:
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> 1. Users of the forum can report a post (or a user) as spam(mer).
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> 2. After the report has been verified, the moderator should be able to click a button and add this to the central spam database so that others can benefit from this. It would be our little contribution to the fight against spam.
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> The reason why it should be possible to report a user as a spammer is that a very common form of spam is a link in the signature of that user. Maybe it could be done as a button "Report as spam". You then get a modal window where you can check if it is spam in post, signature or both.

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Discussion:

@stipsan said on 25 Feb 2011:

> By central spam database you mean a 3rd party service like akismet?

Svein W. said on 25 Feb 2011:

> Yes. There are a few of these that are especially designed for forums and it would be nice to be able to give a bit back to these projects and not just get the benefits from it if they are used to fight spam in NB.

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Associated Issue/Ticket: https://github.com/NinjaForge/Ninjaboard/issues/66