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wizard of id
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Posted: 1st Feb 2016 08:28 Edited at: 1st Feb 2016 08:32
While we had none in the past due to post moderation which was effective at weeding out the spammers.While annoying can we bring it back, it's getting messy with all the spammers in the last few days the weekend was littered with spammers.

It seems, that once a spammer notices the post moderation is off, the website gets reported in spamming circles as easy target, not that any one falls for the obvious spam, most likely a scam as well, we have curious minors on the website, perhaps worth protecting their curious nature.

It is inconvenient to new users, but perhaps there can be a rule, linked steam profile disables post moderation ?
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Belidos
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Posted: 1st Feb 2016 08:41 Edited at: 1st Feb 2016 08:43
There's spam here? I haven't seen any, only thing I have seen is ghost post titles in the list on the right, which are deleted and moderated posts that don't show up in the main feed, so I assumed it was still moderated.
Jerry Tremble
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Posted: 1st Feb 2016 14:21
I saw two this morning when I got on, one is still there, the other has been deleted. The one that is still there is sort of on the fence of being spam or not. Didn't notice any over the weekend, though!
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The Next
TGC Web Engineer
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Posted: 1st Feb 2016 14:49 Edited at: 1st Feb 2016 16:05
We still have post moderation for all new users, the spam that got through was a result of moderators incorrectly allowing it through. The amount of spam is no more than normal, we catch most of it.
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Belidos
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Posted: 1st Feb 2016 16:37
I've noticed that delete, moved or pending posts still appear in the latest column for the category they were posted in, that can get a little annoying when browsing, any chance something could be done about that?
The Next
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Posted: 1st Feb 2016 17:47
It has been on my list to fix for a while but I have been too busy, it annoys me as well so I will fix it as soon as I can.
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Belidos
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Posted: 1st Feb 2016 19:47
OK no worries, I can live with it, don't drop anything important to do it, I know you're busy

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