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Originally Posted by fritz
All the above are good ideas, but I think that a very useful thing would be a "Report Spam" button (similar to the "Thanks" button) that would notify the mods of a potential problem. There are, after all, many more users than mods.  |
as Doc so delicately put it, we do have a button to report bad posts...
that is where we go to report spam.
I'm just saying that banning them like they do now is like chasing a stray cat out of your yard. as soon as you go back inside, they come back.
We need a way to tag them as spammers so that they can't just make a new user name and post more.
That's why I want them tagged with a java cookie that is very hard to find and remove, and then redirected so they can't log out.
For the rest of us the transition to Java cookies would be pretty much seamless, We might come back, and find ourselves logged out, because the HTML cookies in use are no longer valid, but a good programmer can even work around that. Once it's switched to java cookies, the program administrator just needs to make minor changes to the message that is sent when a user is banned. Instead of sending them to a page on SRP that says you've been banned, send them to an outside link. such as...
spam.com
Because their ID is stored on a Java cookie, it isn't cleared with the regular history, or when deleting cookies, or even when restarting the computer.
Because they are automatically redirected before they can access the SRP web site, they can't log out.
In essence you haven't just locked them out, you've hidden the whole house from them.
It's hard to graffitti a wall that you can't see. and unless they read this thread before they get banned, they aren't going to know how they were banned, or even what to look for to bypass the bann.
If the administrator wanted to be subtle, and really comnfuse them, they could be redirected to something that is similar, so they think they misspelled the web address... Send them
here, or
here, or
here...
It might take them a while to figure out what's going on.
You can also send them to something totally unrelated
like this site