Spam ... Spam Everywhere!
Ok so maybe not everywhere. However, it does seem like spammers have taken a liking to the forums. Is there a way to report these guys to remove the spammy topics. I do not see an obvious way to do that.
If there is not a current way to do so, could we implement one before it gets out of hand?
--Dennis
Only way I know is down-voting. But it feels like the same tool is used for too many different things already...
The spammersbegone-tool (aka downvoting/upvoting) was served to Trisquel forum in order to its users use it to combat spam. Any other sort of use violates the trust on this offer.
Remember those days of non spammersbegone-tool? Yes? Remember the free of speech? Remember when you make a thread 'Trisquel might have been compromised'? Remember reading those posts of yours? Well, exactly that's it, remember. Only the past can be remembered. Since the implementation of the spammersbegone-tool your messages would be hidden avoiding your free of speech and productive discussion.
The only way to combat spam is to report the issue on "Spammers be gone". Downvoting keeps the message there and it can (IS) be used to segregate the community into groups and not to allow free of speech. The more use of it, the yahoo answers the forum will look.
Up-votes and down-votes were never meant to "combat spam". Like you wrote, spams are reported at https://trisquel.info/en/issues/4206 and deleted (not hidden). That page preexists the voting system.
Up-votes and down-votes were introduced to collectively enforce the community guidelines: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-community-guidelines
In particular, they aim to make the forum a friendly place mainly devoted to free software. I remember how the forum used to be and I think the voting system at least partially fulfilled its objectives.
Any community is entitled to its own guidelines. Enforcing them is no censorship. If you want free speech, write on your own server.
Not only should there be *actual* freedom of speech (rather than the perverse
reverse discrimination against the 'trisquel troll squad') but communities
should also be allowed to form their own opinions on various posts and posters.
The upvote/downvote tool is a manifestation of the collective opinion. That
way, disliked posts can be dispatched without all the bother of trying to
actually debate trolls.
But it feels like the same tool is used for too many different things already...
In my book (if it can handle it), then it's not a bad thing.
It's simpler.
I am a translator!
copy link location of the moron, example https://trisquel.info/en/users/vishalkrishna and paste it here -> https://trisquel.info/en/issues/4206
Done!
Spammers, with a lot of time. They have nothing better to do with their lifes.
> Spammers, with a lot of time.
Indeed. Perhaps due to all the bots they have doing their business for them.