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Removing Counterfeit Money Posts Etc
Hey folks, on another thread recently we discovered that if 4 of us do this to a comment in a post the comment evaporates into thin air:-
Click on the Flag symbol in the bottom of the comment, then click spam - will be interesting to see if the whole thread disappears if that is the only comment in it 
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So we just need 5 friends and the world is a better place
When can we visit Kirrin Island?
Further discovery; if you flag up the top thread section and it has some posts below it can end up hanging around; there is one out there with circa 8 flags now and it didn't evaporate.
I just did one that was pure spam, the original thread post and around 5 spam comments on it. I initially thought that if I just flagged the top post up to 5 it would go, but it did not, so I then proceeded to flag the individual posts and got all them to evaporate. Finally I "unspammed" the thread back to 4 and then just flagged it back up to 5 and hey presto it evaporated.
I started with the things that were in front of me eg the scourge that was csorthofeet and the major money and passport vendors, switched the hoover on vacuuming everything that came my way in the same threads, and, now, I am out of fodder. I am not saying I have rid the boards of everything but it would be interesting to see what ya'll think; is there less crap about or do you still see mountains of the stuff? If there are some posts you want grinding down feel free to post them here, but, of course you are in control of their destiny anyway, 5 strikes and out they go.
The only stubborn one is a discussion on page 2 of the General Running Forum which even with 10 spam flags wouldn't evaporate, so I have taken the extras off and it currently sits at 5. Maybe @Nessie or @Mr Worry could "unspam" it and we could try taking it over the 4 to5 boundary again to re-trigger the spam engine's consideration of removing it - it might be though that the weight of the other valid comments associated with it are countering the automated annihilation of it.
The author of the thread has been banned; evidence that RW do some policing from time to time. I know a volunteer admin from the previous incarnation of this site. They had spam removal capability, but that's not been possible with this "new" site so we are stuck with a less active policing situation as a result. RW did have a purge a few months back but things have got on my tits enough since then for me to have spent a bit of time on it myself having discovered the 5 rule. I was smiling a few times during my travels - noticed the odd comment "I flagged that shit as spam and the admins have removed it" - ha ha I have become an "admin"...