⭐ Merited by Rikafip (1)
Sup fellas 
I was sure about that But thanks for confirming me.
With all due respect, Welsh and, you probably sensed by now that I respect you a lot for your intense work you do on the forum, what you said above is just politically correct, but you know that, in practice, nobody (probably excepting you) takes care of a full thread if only one post is reported (no matter if that post contains a comment similar to "please take a look at the entire topic"). Many of us saw that this kind of action leads to no results -- take Rikafip for example, but not just him. However, in this case, your suggestion was taken and, as a consequence, this very thread was created. The result was the following: all the spam remained intact until I intervened and reported all the zero-value posts, from each topic mentioned inside Rikafip's topic.
Excepting this example there are many others from the past; sometimes other users opened thread in Meta related to this problem; and all said that whenever they reported a single post with a comment to be taken care the entire thread, that post was flagged as good, but the remaining topic was left intact. This discussion also touched, in those topics, the subject of reporting only one post of a reporter which has all his posts being spam, and report only one post of such user with a comment similar to "please review entire user's posting activity".
It simply does not work. I know that your approach is best though; it would be great if it would have the impact you say; but, sadly, probably excepting you, none (or very few) of your mod colleagues share the same vision. If they see a report for a post and that post is spam, they delete it and do not look at an entire thread, although the comment associated with that report indicates that the entire thread to be reviewed...
However, I will cease here from making further reports from Decent thread, although I had prepared already a few more hundreds. I will look for other topics which need to be cleaned.
I totally understand what you mean about prioritizing chores in this case. It's normal to focus first on topics where spam is active. But this does not mean to (as we say in Romania) hide the trash under the carpet. Meaning to flag as bad some reports only because they are made on older topics. Such post should never be considered as bad. In this case, I think that logical approach would be to leave unhandled for a while the reports made for older topics; take care first of the ones where spam is active; then return to what was previously left as unhandled.
Another option would be to have a clear statement (probably in Meta) saying something similar to the following: "reports made for posts older than XXX date will automatically be considered bad, no matter they are made for posts which really deserve to be reported". In this manner, all reporters would have a clear guideline and they would know what to report and what not.
But flagging some reports as bad although they are supposed to be good, only because some mod is too busy to take care of them may be felt as a deception by the ones which are active reporters and this should raise an alarm, as these people are too few anyway.
After the long wall of text from above, let me share with you some of the most weird / funny posts I ever seen, both being from Decent topic.
I updated also the list with the topics where spam is still active. I also deleted a few topics, where last activity was in January-February.
{ANN} Income Finance 20% Reflection rewards paid in BUSD! - spam active
[ANN] My Crypto City (MYCTY) Mobile game using Solana infrastructure spam active
🚀 [ANN] Stabila Public Chain (STB) | Decentralize the financial system. 🚀 -spam active topic active
🚀 WINZ.IO 🚀 $150,000 WINTER BONANZA QUEST ❄️ UP TO 300 FREE SPINS BONUS 🎁 -OP active topic active
✅ Paradice.in | 🍀 Provably Fair 🎲 | Rain☔| 30 sec Faucet | 1% House Edge 💰| -OP active topic active
[MASS] Decentralized HARD DRIVE mining cryptocurrency | PoC | Low Energy cost - topic barely active
TimeCoinProtocol - decentralized sharing economy protocol - OP active
[ANN] Work Quest - Global End to End Jobs Marketplace Powered on Smart Contract -spam active OP active
[ANN] EDC Blockchain - global platform with its own cryptocurrency - OP active a few times per week
[ANN] Gentlemen's Baby Club [GBC] NFT CLUB #ETH #blockchain -topic OP barely active last spam was on Feb 9th
[ANN] V SYSTEMS - Blockchain Database and App Platform by Sunny King [SPoS/Mint] - OP active rarely
[CRP]Self-funded and Released Utopia P2P ecosystem and Crypton privacy coin - OP active once per month
[ANN] Minereum - 🔥 🚀 Minereum World Metaverse Land Pre-Sale LIVE! 🚀 - topic inactive since Jan 23rd + project cancelled
And this is the status for the "sup fellas group". It seems that half of them got tired of spamming.
[ANN]✨✨✨ Nexum (NEXM) ✨✨✨ Unbanking Shipping - spam active
[ANN]✨✨✨ Predict Vision ✨✨✨ Decentralized A.I - spam active
[ANN]✨✨✨ CLIME Finance✨✨✨ The Climate Ecosystem - spam active
[ANN]✨✨✨ Z1 FINANCIAL ✨✨✨ Investment Opportunity for Real Estate Investors - OP / topic inactive since March 10th
[ANN]✨✨✨ YachtX Coin ✨✨✨ The high-end exclusive yacht life currency - OP / topic inactive since March 8th
[ANN]✨✨✨ $GOGE ✨✨✨ DogeGaySon - OP / topic inactive since March 1st
Yeah, it wasn't me that handled those reports.
I was sure about that
But thanks for confirming me.Going forward, you can always report a thread as being artificially bumped or something along those lines. We're all pretty well aware of Decent, and pretty much all of these threads now, so combing through them, and reporting each post probably isn't necessary.
With all due respect, Welsh and, you probably sensed by now that I respect you a lot for your intense work you do on the forum, what you said above is just politically correct, but you know that, in practice, nobody (probably excepting you) takes care of a full thread if only one post is reported (no matter if that post contains a comment similar to "please take a look at the entire topic"). Many of us saw that this kind of action leads to no results -- take Rikafip for example, but not just him. However, in this case, your suggestion was taken and, as a consequence, this very thread was created. The result was the following: all the spam remained intact until I intervened and reported all the zero-value posts, from each topic mentioned inside Rikafip's topic.
Excepting this example there are many others from the past; sometimes other users opened thread in Meta related to this problem; and all said that whenever they reported a single post with a comment to be taken care the entire thread, that post was flagged as good, but the remaining topic was left intact. This discussion also touched, in those topics, the subject of reporting only one post of a reporter which has all his posts being spam, and report only one post of such user with a comment similar to "please review entire user's posting activity".
It simply does not work. I know that your approach is best though; it would be great if it would have the impact you say; but, sadly, probably excepting you, none (or very few) of your mod colleagues share the same vision. If they see a report for a post and that post is spam, they delete it and do not look at an entire thread, although the comment associated with that report indicates that the entire thread to be reviewed...
However, I will cease here from making further reports from Decent thread, although I had prepared already a few more hundreds. I will look for other topics which need to be cleaned.
I'll be periodically checking most of these, and cleaning them up as time goes on. As you can imagine, older content might be seen as lower prioriity than current spam, and hence why some moderators might disagree with reporting old content.
I totally understand what you mean about prioritizing chores in this case. It's normal to focus first on topics where spam is active. But this does not mean to (as we say in Romania) hide the trash under the carpet. Meaning to flag as bad some reports only because they are made on older topics. Such post should never be considered as bad. In this case, I think that logical approach would be to leave unhandled for a while the reports made for older topics; take care first of the ones where spam is active; then return to what was previously left as unhandled.
Another option would be to have a clear statement (probably in Meta) saying something similar to the following: "reports made for posts older than XXX date will automatically be considered bad, no matter they are made for posts which really deserve to be reported". In this manner, all reporters would have a clear guideline and they would know what to report and what not.
But flagging some reports as bad although they are supposed to be good, only because some mod is too busy to take care of them may be felt as a deception by the ones which are active reporters and this should raise an alarm, as these people are too few anyway.
After the long wall of text from above, let me share with you some of the most weird / funny posts I ever seen, both being from Decent topic.
I did not receive a letter to the post office.I can not go into the old office
Here's my situation, I have to go to prison for 30 days on June 30th. So I'm going to miss the beginning of the launch. Will I still have access to my coins a month later?
Also, I hear that Rikers Island is pretty tough, and people say that I look like a young Brad Pitt. I have blond hair, blue eyes, so I have a feeling that I'm going to be assaulted. And I don't know if I'm going to be able to sit down properly after I get out. I'm going to be pretty sore, for a while. I can't go on the computer.
So how long after launch can we claim our coins?
Also, I hear that Rikers Island is pretty tough, and people say that I look like a young Brad Pitt. I have blond hair, blue eyes, so I have a feeling that I'm going to be assaulted. And I don't know if I'm going to be able to sit down properly after I get out. I'm going to be pretty sore, for a while. I can't go on the computer.
So how long after launch can we claim our coins?
I updated also the list with the topics where spam is still active. I also deleted a few topics, where last activity was in January-February.
{ANN} Income Finance 20% Reflection rewards paid in BUSD! - spam active
[ANN] My Crypto City (MYCTY) Mobile game using Solana infrastructure spam active
🚀 [ANN] Stabila Public Chain (STB) | Decentralize the financial system. 🚀 -
🚀 WINZ.IO 🚀 $150,000 WINTER BONANZA QUEST ❄️ UP TO 300 FREE SPINS BONUS 🎁 -
✅ Paradice.in | 🍀 Provably Fair 🎲 | Rain☔| 30 sec Faucet | 1% House Edge 💰| -
[MASS] Decentralized HARD DRIVE mining cryptocurrency | PoC | Low Energy cost - topic barely active
TimeCoinProtocol - decentralized sharing economy protocol - OP active
[ANN] Work Quest - Global End to End Jobs Marketplace Powered on Smart Contract -
[ANN] EDC Blockchain - global platform with its own cryptocurrency - OP active a few times per week
[ANN] Gentlemen's Baby Club [GBC] NFT CLUB #ETH #blockchain -
[ANN] V SYSTEMS - Blockchain Database and App Platform by Sunny King [SPoS/Mint] - OP active rarely
[CRP]Self-funded and Released Utopia P2P ecosystem and Crypton privacy coin - OP active once per month
[ANN] Minereum - 🔥 🚀 Minereum World Metaverse Land Pre-Sale LIVE! 🚀 - topic inactive since Jan 23rd + project cancelled
And this is the status for the "sup fellas group". It seems that half of them got tired of spamming.
[ANN]✨✨✨ Nexum (NEXM) ✨✨✨ Unbanking Shipping - spam active
[ANN]✨✨✨ Predict Vision ✨✨✨ Decentralized A.I - spam active
[ANN]✨✨✨ CLIME Finance✨✨✨ The Climate Ecosystem - spam active
[ANN]✨✨✨ Z1 FINANCIAL ✨✨✨ Investment Opportunity for Real Estate Investors - OP / topic inactive since March 10th
[ANN]✨✨✨ YachtX Coin ✨✨✨ The high-end exclusive yacht life currency - OP / topic inactive since March 8th
[ANN]✨✨✨ $GOGE ✨✨✨ DogeGaySon - OP / topic inactive since March 1st