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joshuaho
Scratcher
1000+ posts

A solution to Spamming

Sometimes, when I read the comments of a scratcher's projects, I see that some of them are mere links to the commenter's project(s), which is spamming.
So, I have a solution to that. What if we could have a system like the censor system which would automatically notify the Scratch Team of the link, so they could view it and possibly delete the spam link? That way, spamming would be reported, just after the spammer posts the spam link!

Last edited by joshuaho (Aug. 6, 2013 02:04:37)


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turkey3
Scratcher
1000+ posts

A solution to Spamming

Well, it's not always spamming. What if I'm working on a collab and post a link to part of it on a member's project?

joshuaho
Scratcher
1000+ posts

A solution to Spamming

turkey3 wrote:

Well, it's not always spamming. What if I'm working on a collab and post a link to part of it on a member's project?
Well, the Scratch Team would view it, but not delete it.

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drmcw
Scratcher
1000+ posts

A solution to Spamming

joshuaho wrote:

turkey3 wrote:

Well, it's not always spamming. What if I'm working on a collab and post a link to part of it on a member's project?
Well, the Scratch Team would view it, but not delete it.

Well let's say there's 100,000 comments per day made and it takes, say 1 minute to read the comment and click the link then check the link. That's 100,000 minutes per day which for an 8 hour working day means you'd need a team of over 200 people to police. I assume you'd like the offline version of Scratch released in your lifetime?

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dracae
Scratcher
1000+ posts

A solution to Spamming

No support.

As drmwc said, the Scratch Team won't have time to sift through all of the alerts

TM_
Scratcher
1000+ posts

A solution to Spamming

dracae wrote:

No support.

As drmwc said, the Scratch Team won't have time to sift through all of the alerts

i also no support, same reason like drmcw


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dvd4
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100+ posts

A solution to Spamming

drmcw wrote:

joshuaho wrote:

turkey3 wrote:

Well, it's not always spamming. What if I'm working on a collab and post a link to part of it on a member's project?
Well, the Scratch Team would view it, but not delete it.

Well let's say there's 100,000 comments per day made and it takes, say 1 minute to read the comment and click the link then check the link. That's 100,000 minutes per day which for an 8 hour working day means you'd need a team of over 200 people to police. I assume you'd like the offline version of Scratch released in your lifetime?
teh logic only goes so far…

'cause it's based on guesses.


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joshuaho
Scratcher
1000+ posts

A solution to Spamming

drmcw wrote:

joshuaho wrote:

turkey3 wrote:

Well, it's not always spamming. What if I'm working on a collab and post a link to part of it on a member's project?
Well, the Scratch Team would view it, but not delete it.

Well let's say there's 100,000 comments per day made and it takes, say 1 minute to read the comment and click the link then check the link. That's 100,000 minutes per day which for an 8 hour working day means you'd need a team of over 200 people to police. I assume you'd like the offline version of Scratch released in your lifetime?
I'm pretty sure that there would not be 100000 spam comments a day.

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dvd4
Scratcher
100+ posts

A solution to Spamming

drmcw wrote:

joshuaho wrote:

turkey3 wrote:

Well, it's not always spamming. What if I'm working on a collab and post a link to part of it on a member's project?
Well, the Scratch Team would view it, but not delete it.

Well let's say there's 100,000 comments per day made and it takes, say 1 minute to read the comment and click the link then check the link. That's 100,000 minutes per day which for an 8 hour working day means you'd need a team of over 200 people to police. I assume you'd like the offline version of Scratch released in your lifetime?
Waaaaaaait.

So this is why 2.0 wil come out in 2062…

Last edited by dvd4 (Aug. 6, 2013 18:15:03)



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joshuaho
Scratcher
1000+ posts

A solution to Spamming

dvd4 wrote:

drmcw wrote:

joshuaho wrote:

turkey3 wrote:

Well, it's not always spamming. What if I'm working on a collab and post a link to part of it on a member's project?
Well, the Scratch Team would view it, but not delete it.

Well let's say there's 100,000 comments per day made and it takes, say 1 minute to read the comment and click the link then check the link. That's 100,000 minutes per day which for an 8 hour working day means you'd need a team of over 200 people to police. I assume you'd like the offline version of Scratch released in your lifetime?
Waaaaaaait.

So this is why 2.0 wil come out in 2062…

Not possible. 2062 is too late.

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Wes64
Scratcher
500+ posts

A solution to Spamming

it's not difficult to click “report”.

it is difficult to make auto-censoring because, i'd imagine, it would often flag stuff falsely. there are often times when posting a project URL can be legitimate, but none of these fit into any sort of algorithm.

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jh1234l
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100+ posts

A solution to Spamming

I do not support. As people said, it would be hard to manage such a system. Just use the report button, or, if it is on your own project, delete the comment.

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joshuaho
Scratcher
1000+ posts

A solution to Spamming

(Issued August 6th)

At first, I thought that this suggestion would be a wonderful way to prevent spamming. But it looks like that everyone does not like this suggestion. So, this suggestion is not a useful one.

TOPIC CLOSED, PERIOD.

Last edited by joshuaho (Aug. 7, 2013 03:35:36)


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