DocAndersen
I’ve gotten a couple of Private Messages recently, and Carol posted about the SPAM messages that have plagued the site this weekend. Here is the reality – if you select a report, you lose the Viril you go from the SPAM post, but in the long run, you help make our community a better place. The same by the way is true with comments that are offensive or directed at another user. I don’t know the don’t downvote and don’t report rude comments concept came from, but you are well within your rights as an author to report any comments.
1. If a comment attacks you as a person – report it.
2. If a comment is clearly spam (such as the HTML posts this weekend) report it
3. If you find a post to be incorrect, notify the author and downvote it!
We are a powerful community. We are also a community. Each of us must have a voice!
From the site administrators – if you use the foul or profane language, they will ban you from the site for some time.
Please note, report all the SPAM comments you see. We, as a community, must help the admin team. We don’t want the admin team of the site to spend time chasing comments and problems like this. We want them working on improving the site overall. We got a dashboard update very early in July (let’s see if there is an end of July update). We, as a community, sent a note to the Admin team, letting them know what we thought would greatly improve our community and site!
Remember – our Virily community starts and ends with you. You are the community!
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Question of
Have you gotten the SPAM comments this weekend?
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Yes
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No
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Has anyone every posted a comment attacking you as a person?
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Yes
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No
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I am sorry you didn’t read the post before commenting. The site admins did, in fact, inform me that offensive comments would not be tolerated.
The second piece, about comments that offend clearly, shows that it is my opinion (since the line starts with it is well within your rights to remove any comment.
Since this piece was specifically written for authors, the relevance of the user that posted the offensive comment doesn’t fit. The author has to choose to remove or not remove any comments they deem offensive. If they do, they will lose Virils.
Luckily, haven’t got SPAM messages or comments. If this happens, surely will take the measures which you recommended. Of course, we should help Virily community.
we actually did have SPAM comments last weekend!
I have not received any spam messages. I also have no insults in the comments.
I didn’t get any of the SPAM messages either but I saw them all over the site!
I’m lucky … to date I have not yet received a Spam comment, my friend
I have also been lucky no SPAM comments.
But I don’t understand something … they are all Virily members
you can sign up and that is sadly what they did. Sign up first, become members, and then spam posts with comments!
I don’t understand why Virily isn’t taking action and blocking these users here
actually they are, they asked for us to send the user names and they will remove the posts and the users!
I have picked up links of posts that are spam and messaged to the editor and they have been deleted but the user is not banned.
The rule for banning requires the user (here on Virily) use profanity.
SPAM is not considered bad as far as the editors are concerned just a nuisance!!!
That can ruin the site in the long run Bubblews became a victim as reporting was ignored.
You are in the same boat as I am. I have asked the admins to leave deleted comments off posts when the author deleted them.
Oh well.
Can’t win all the battles!
Yeah, spam post should be reported to protect this site.
Thanks! I agree. Reporting rude and spam comments is critical!
Offending comments and spam should be reported. I just saw some spam on comments in a post by Carol I am sure she will catch it.
She did, I posted this in support of her post that got all the SPAM comments!
both of these are strong arguments for user deletes. and since, as you’ve already called out, the user will forfeit the virlis for any comment they delete, the user will be reluctant to abuse this privilege
but that’s just my assessment
🙂 I agree.
If an author is willing to give up virils to remove comments they should be allowed to do so! If a user constantly posts SPAM comments they should be removed!
obviously user bans should remain an admin call, but deleting comments on your own thread should be a user call…
I agree. Not sure the admin team does, but I do agree with you!
unfortunately, their opinion is the only one that matters
I totally agree with you. I did not receive the SPAM comment, at least I noticed it … maybe I’m on the line later
I don’t think everyone got them. I personally did not get any SPAM comments, as well!
I strongly agree and support your opinion, Doc! It’s meaningless to lose a little bit in order to protect this community from inconvenience!
Thanks Albert! trying to back up Carol on this post!
Yes Doc I have been reporting left and right. It should be gone by now but still there on many old posts.
I haven’t gotten a single one – I guess I no longer popular!
You can have all of mine. 🙂
I tend to get most of the anger from a couple of users, I;ll pass on SPAM.
I agree that we should report any offending posts.
It is a huge issue – thanks! I wish we could fix both the nasty and SPAM comments but it is part of the internet.
I have reported many in this week, Thank you for highlighting the concern
I am sorry to hear that I haven’t gotten hit with many this week.