Improving ASR as a member/moderator

[RickS]

@RickS - whenever I see spam, I report it and I make a post to let other ASR members know that the post has been reported so that you don't get inundated with reports. Recently, the original spam post was deleted, but my follow-up post was not. It was only just deleted, I presume it was you who did that. In the future, would you be able to delete my follow-up post routinely along with the spam post? Thank you.

Sure, but sometimes am in a hurry or get interrupted and lose track so may need to be reminded.

 

[xanalog]

...whenever I see spam...

Oh, Dear!
I don't think I have ever seen 'spam' at ASR before and may not even know one if I saw one.
Either RickS is working overtime or my spam-free lifestyle is to blame... or both!

 

[Audionaut]

I don't think I have ever seen 'spam' at ASR before

Well, here’s a little bit of SPAM just for you, @xanalog, and an explanation of the YouTube video for @RickS, so he doesn’t have to clean up his own thread:
Many people today believe that spam simply started at some point with annoying advertising emails. In reality, however, the path to spam involved British humor and canned meat.

In 1970, Monty Python performed this now-legendary sketch on their show Monty Python’s Flying Circus: A married couple sits in a café trying to order something to eat. The problem, however, is that practically every dish contains “Spam”—and then there are Vikings sitting in the background who start singing:

“Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam… lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!”

The word is repeated so insistently that normal conversation becomes impossible. Everything is drowned out by Spam.

Years later, internet users apparently thought to themselves: “Wait a minute… that’s exactly like those people who spam forums and chats with the same messages over and over.”

And so began the rise of one of the internet’s most famous words.

Of course, you could have just watched the video, but an explanation like this, in accordance with ASR rules, protects members from excessive video consumption and the creator from private messages from the moderator and a possible ban.

 

[RickS]

@RickS - whenever I see spam, I report it and I make a post to let other ASR members know that the post has been reported so that you don't get inundated with reports. Recently, the original spam post was deleted, but my follow-up post was not. It was only just deleted, I presume it was you who did that. In the future, would you be able to delete my follow-up post routinely along with the spam post? Thank you.

Btw, unless older account, the spam clean will delete all spammer posts and the account. Posting in thread adds another step for staff so please save your keystrokes.

 

[Keith_W]

Okay. I reported another spam post today. I'll stop making follow-up posts from now on

 

[xanalog]

Okay. I reported another spam post today.

You should be officiated as the Fellow ASR' Dr.Spam.
Perhaps, @RickS can make that honor possible... when he got no windows to wash!

 

[RickS]

As have encountered more than a few members that may have glossed over the ASR Terms and Rules, please note they are linked at the bottom of my signature and the lower right of most forum views.

Amir recently added a FAQ section and, if you have not read, encourage all to take some time and do so. I just did so myself and one particular part stood as being particularly relevant for both existing and newer members…

“…please be mindful of bringing ideas to ASR that are not grounded in proper audio science and engineering as it will be met with pushback. Nothing wrong with saying you like the sound of this and that gear. But insisting that such an experience overrides what we are about, is going to get you a lot of flak. You will be asked to provide sound evidence and if you can’t, you will get crunched in the gears of ASR.

Instead, (less technical members should) lay low and take the opportunity to truly learn the technology and science behind it. Watch the many tutorials on data in the reviews and then express a contrarian view (if you desire). We can then have a good discussion.”

To initiate a good discussion, you can either join an existing thread or start your own. In either case, ensure you take sime time and research the site. If there is an existing thread, put some effort into perusing it. Newer members should state their background and ask some questions to get more optimal results. There is also a newbie subforum where existing members are more open to newer members. ASR is more professional than many other audio forums and taking a business-like approach to the forum is recommended. As Amir indicates, if you fail to prepare, you better be prepared to fail. For newer members looking to be accepted here, failure does not make a great first impression.

 

[RickS]

Please note that our Terms and Rules have been updated to specify that content here needs to be in English. Most new members seem to know but a few have asked how they would know. So now it is documented. As many are often using translation apps, please allow some initial forgiveness for new members as they adjust. Thanks!

 

[xanalog]

...that content here needs to be in English...

Great rule!

Probably because time consumed by one single person (=content creator/poster) would be orders of magnitude less time than it would take the rest of us -individually- having to look-up a translation.
I avoid reading foreign language posts as being flippant!

Other choice English words: >> tactless, rude, lazy, uncivil, impolite, discourteous, uncouth, boorish, gauche, ill-mannered, lacking etiquette, no bueno!

 

[mhardy6647]

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Other choice English words: >> tactless, rude, lazy, uncivil, impolite, discourteous, uncouth, boorish, gauche, ill-mannered, lacking etiquette, no bueno!

Sounds like the pledge for Dr. Evil Boy Scouts.

 

[mhardy6647]

PS Some of us who identify as southpaws may consider the term gauche to be microaggression.

 

[Mnyb]

I report spam on regular basis ? It happens quite often , it's a good thing that we are from diferent time zones , so the spam can be reported as soon as it apears

 

[Mart68]

PS Some of us who identify as southpaws may consider the term gauche to be microaggression.

A sinister post

 

[Spkrdctr]

Rick must be doing a fantastic job. I haven't encountered any spam in a long time. Well done!

 

[RickS]

Rick must be doing a fantastic job. I haven't encountered any spam in a long time. Well done!

Thanks, but as my OP acknowledges, I get member help. Spam is a constant battle and there is a daily wave early in the morning. If the wave hits before I am up or before I clean it up, you will see it!

 

[respice finem]

Thanks, but as my OP acknowledges, I get member help. Spam is a constant battle and there is a daily wave early in the morning. If the wave hits before I am up or before I clean it up, you will see it!

Maybe "a well regulated militia" might help?
By just granting selected longtime members the privilege to "make invisible" a suspicious post/new thread, pending review? (until a real Moderator can look into it)

 

[xanalog]

I report spam on regular basis

In my traveling eras, I tried to avoid tourists when aboard.
I treat spam the same exact way, since I now travel different kinds of byways.
I don't know what a spam would even look like, here at ASR.

 

[RickS]

Maybe "a well regulated militia" might help?
By just granting selected longtime members the privilege to "make invisible" a suspicious post, pending review? (until a real Moderator can look into it)

Are you just jesting or hinting at something? If the latter, will need your to elaborate!

Just to be clear, all the current helpful members do so without any benefit to themselves. They are truly an ASR stealth support team.

 

[xanalog]

They are truly an ASR stealth support team.

Can someone please screen-capture what a spam would look like on a desktop monitor?
No, I don't want to apply for SST membership.

 

[respice finem]

Are you just jesting or hinting at something? If the latter, will need your to elaborate!

Just to be clear, all the current helpful members do so without any benefit to themselves. They are truly an ASR stealth support team.

Considering myself a helpful member, I'm thinking how to fill the time-gap before first sight of a spam post and effective intervention, without mod presence at all time. Hence the idea of such "temp-ban" status, because reporting isn't automatically blocking the spam poster, not even temporarily.
The benefit for the forum would be, the spammer activity would be "frozen" (ideally) after his first spam post, before he can flood "half the forum". Distributed denial of spam, so to speak. BTW, if a spammer tries to flood, it's counterproductive to have these long waiting times between reports, but that's probably "hardcoded" in the software.