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Lorinda Captain Mifune
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:16 am Post subject: |
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I missed that Water has a total of 8 posts as of this writing, none of which are particularly helpful although they appear to be attempting to help.
I was sorely tempted to delete this post and send them a p.m. asking them to refrain from offering suggestions when they aren't familiar with NeoOffice, but I decided maybe I'd better seek the wisdom of the group before doing so.
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 2352 Location: Zürich, CH
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:06 am Post subject: |
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I think Water may be a bit overenthusiastic. Less encouragement and more hard fact would be appropriate.
I wondered if he was a loose spammer first, but the messages were on-topic.
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Oscar _________________ "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
"I think it would be a good idea!"
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pluby The Architect
Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:29 am Post subject: |
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ovvldc wrote: | I think Water may be a bit overenthusiastic. Less encouragement and more hard fact would be appropriate.
I wondered if he was a loose spammer first, but the messages were on-topic |
I am still not so sure about Water as some of his posts don't really say anything so I think we should watch him very carefully. In the meantime, I deleted any of the posts that just ramble and essentially say nothing so as not to confuse other users.
As for stephenmorphey, I strongly suspect that that user is a spammer so I have deleted posts that regurgitate answers that I or others had already given in the same thread.
I have not disabled either user yet, but if you see any more questionable posts, then let us know and we will disable their account.
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sardisson Town Crier
Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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Water has also sent me a PM asking for a NeoWiki account. I don't have the benefit of seeing his deleted posts, but offhand the ones that remain do seem to me to be mostly over-enthusiastic. I'll hold off on granting the wiki account for now, though, until we come to some sort of conclusion.
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki |
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pluby The Architect
Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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sardisson wrote: | Water has also sent me a PM asking for a NeoWiki account. I don't have the benefit of seeing his deleted posts, but offhand the ones that remain do seem to me to be mostly over-enthusiastic. I'll hold off on granting the wiki account for now, though, until we come to some sort of conclusion. |
I agree. Usually we grant NeoWiki edit access when you have proven to provide clear, helpful information. Enthusiasm is nice, but IMHO posting rambling, stream-of-consciousness posts with no facts in them causes more problems for users than not posting at all.
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
Joined: Sep 13, 2004 Posts: 2352 Location: Zürich, CH
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:35 am Post subject: |
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I deleted an off-topic post in a two-year old thread by user MNIce.
Update: Come to think of it, I may have been overzealous and deleted a post that ended up in a wrong thread. It might have belonged here.
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MacRat Sake Horner
Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 364 Location: Earth
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
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Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:51 am Post subject: |
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Done. _________________ "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
"I think it would be a good idea!"
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Samwise Captain Naiobi
Joined: Apr 25, 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Montpellier, France
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Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:32 am Post subject: |
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I just deleted a spam post by Ninasu in this topic… |
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pluby The Architect
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Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:09 am Post subject: |
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FYI. I have disabled Ninasu's account.
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Samwise Captain Naiobi
Joined: Apr 25, 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Montpellier, France
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:18 am Post subject: |
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We have another spammer, which for once isn't subtle at all (creates topics named "Health Tips", "Internet Marketing", "Benefits of Outsourcing Internet Marketing", and in the ranting forum - probably so they are easier to spot ):
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narf The Anomaly
Joined: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 1075
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:15 am Post subject: |
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FYI: I have disabled allenborder's account.
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ovvldc Captain Naiobi
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:08 am Post subject: |
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I deleted two messages by user brucemendes that looked rather superfluous. But I left a third because it might be useful..
No suggestions on how to proceed further.
Best wishes,
Oscar _________________ "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
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narf The Anomaly
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:57 am Post subject: |
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ovvldc wrote: | I deleted two messages by user brucemendes that looked rather superfluous. But I left a third because it might be useful. |
Thanks Oscar. I disabled brucemendes' account and deleted the remaining post because Lorinda provided a more useful post in that topic.
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sardisson Town Crier
Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject: Indian spammers in the iPhone Remote thread |
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User stephenmorphey (IP: 122.169.8.15 / ABTS-mum-dynamic-015.8.169.122.airtelbroadband.in) made an reasonable, perhaps slightly awkward-English "thanks for these instructions" post on the iPhone Remote thread last week. Today when I returned to the thread (see below), I noticed his signature now has a French link in it (thereby getting around the "5 posts before links" restriction ).
New user darrenalex "from USA and i also using a i-phone since 7 months" (IP: 122.169.31.191 / ABTS-MH-dynamic-191.31.169.122.airtelbroadband.in) just posted a reply that was clearly an attempt to start spamming.
Both users should be disabled (and the signature URL removed from stephenmorphey, if possible).
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki |
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