Looking for more Steepster Moderators!

I don’t think so. I was first to offer and haven’t heard anything.

i’m tempted to go to guam though

Seems like nobody has heard anything yet from the looks of it. I hope this happens soon.

Hasn’t happened yet, sorry for the delay! I’m hoping to take some time next week to reach out to the people who are interested and give them moderator privileges.

But Mike was also able to make some updates to the spam prevention tools (he mentioned it a couple weeks ago on twitter and in the discussions) which seems to have helped prevent some of the spam creation.

Anything with Lahore or Dubai or escorts should be a flag. Quickbooks is another big spammer.

I will vouch for Roswell. I see her on here about every day.

Thanks so much for the offer! I do appreciate it, but since you are a new user without much of a history on the site or submitted content, I did leave you off of the recent batch of new moderators. No offense intended, just for liability reasons we try to keep it limited to more established users.

After you spend more time on the site and contribute more content though, I’d be happy to reconsider later on should you still be interested. Hope you understand!

Thanks Jason :)

Yes, thank you.

I didn’t get the email, probably because of an earlier problem. Is it possible to PM the instructions?

Or re-send. I had an old email address for Steepster. Just corrected.

Ah, it was probably the old email. I sent it to whatever email you had on your account. I’ll resend it.

Got it.

Yeah I managed to zap a few earlier. Felt good!

Noted :)

I just had the same issue myself.

Someone else may have marked it already.

I think it is because they have gotten zapped and waiting for the site founders to clear them.

@AJ It’s most likely because the account has already been removed. Due to the caching we have setup on the site, it’s possible that in certain areas you would still see links to an account even though it has already been removed. Sometimes it just takes a little while for the cache to break and the page to update.

So for example, sometimes there are several spam discussions. Someone can go in and mark the user who created the spam discussions as a spammer, which will initiate the process of removing their content. If you try to visit that spam profile page again (by refreshing the page or clicking on their username again) you’ll likely see the 404 page because the account has been removed. However, when you go back to look at the discussions section you may still see the spam discussions, even though the account has been removed, because those discussions are currently cached. After a little while (when someone edits a discussion or creates a new post to the discussions) the cache will break and any posts from a user that has been marked as a spammer should then disappear.

If you think that isn’t what is happening though, you can let me know and I can try to investigate more.

So it’s cleaner if we zap spammers then post in a thread to re-cache it?

Technically yes, though I wouldn’t necessarily want to encourage people to be posting just to break the cache. However, if the spam is particularly bad that is one way to clean it up faster.

That’s likely what’s happening to me, but I haven’t used to tool enough yet to know for sure. So far, the individual spammer’s profile page also remains active after I attempt to mark them as spam.

It might take a little while for your to hit the 404 on the profile page after having marked a user as spam (usually if I refresh within 5 seconds it’s done, but it could be a little longer than that).

But to make sure it’s working, check the pop up message in the bottom right when you click the “Mark as spammer” link. It should mention that the user was successfully marked as a spammer if it worked, but if it didn’t work it should say something to that effect (I don’t remember the exact message off the top of my head). So maybe make sure that confirmation message is showing up when you click it?

Also FYI, if you click a discussion link notification that was caused by a spammer, and that spammer has already been removed, you should be redirected to the first page of the discussion thread (instead of the page where the spam post would have been had it not already been removed).