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Added by Delta Mike Charlie 12 months ago

Flole Systems - I noticed some new spam today.

As I live on the other side of the planet from you, I would be happy to delete spam when I see it. Please let me know if this would be helpful.


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RE: Forum Spam - Added by saen acro 12 months ago

This was mentioned before, there was suggestions for captcha when registering, was refused.
https://tvheadend.org/boards/10/topics/49546

Spam content no need to be deleted, better to be replaced by spammer email address.
and removed after a generous donation.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Jonas Lang 12 months ago

Delta Mike Charlie wrote:

Flole Systems - I noticed some new spam today.

As I live on the other side of the planet from you, I would be happy to delete spam when I see it. Please let me know if this would be helpful.

I offered to do the same about a year ago. Just trying to spread the load. Nothing changed though. All you can do is offer to help.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Anders Gustafsson 10 months ago

Several this morning, by Everett James

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Dave H 10 months ago

As Saen said, an email address is more useful than a (possibly false) name.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Anders Gustafsson 10 months ago

Sorry about that. Yes I know that the name is probably fake. I will try better next time.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Jonas Lang 10 months ago

I don’t think that will be an issue for much longer. Apparently plans are afoot to replace the Redmine forum but no timeline has been given to date. Unfortunately we will have to endure spam email notifications for a little longer. Not too much longer I hope.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Anders Gustafsson 10 months ago

OK. Not that Spam har been an overwhelming problem either. OTOH are all forum apps vulnerable to some extent, unless you enforce manual vetting.

When I was a sysop at the Novell NNTP forums, I wrote a SpamNuker app that the rest of the crew could use. You could nuke spam on all subgroups, based on selected criteria.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Jonas Lang 10 months ago

It didn’t help that basically the forum was slowly abandoned over the years. What administrators were left in the intervening years did not have full administrative rights for the forum so could not adequately deal with this issue.

Hopefully going forward the individuals now in charge of the project will not allow a repeat of this situation.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by saen acro 10 months ago

Jonas Lang wrote:

It didn’t help that basically the forum was slowly abandoned over the years. What administrators were left in the intervening years did not have full administrative rights for the forum so could not adequately deal with this issue.

Hopefully going forward the individuals now in charge of the project will not allow a repeat of this situation.

There is a background working on case
needed convert redmine forum content to

https://new.tvheadend.org

any help accepted

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Jonas Lang 10 months ago

Bloody hell. Would it not have been an idea to post that little nugget on this forum. I can’t speak for others but I’m not a mind reader or an active ESP operative.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Christian Hewitt 10 months ago

The top-secret? new forum location link was posted (to you specifically) two months ago: https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/50974?r=50989#message-50989

Flole will make a news post with more details on the forum swap shortly I hope.

NB: At this point you've ignored all invites to 'team' things so our working assumption is that you are content to be a forum regular and nothing more.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Jonas Lang 10 months ago

Christian Hewitt wrote:

The top-secret? new forum location link was posted (to you specifically) two months ago: https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/50974?r=50989#message-50989

Flole will make a news post with more details on the forum swap shortly I hope.

NB: At this point you've ignored all invites to 'team' things so our working assumption is that you are content to be a forum regular and nothing more.

What invites ??

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Christian Hewitt 10 months ago

I emailed an intro and discord invite to the address you are registered to this forum with on 13th December. In case that email is bad you've also been asked via comments in the other thread to drop me an email so one can be sent. I've also made the same suggestion to "mralapete" via GitHub comments on the assumption this is also you (due to that user having identical tone/language and issue focus). chewitt@ tvheadend/kodi/libreelec domains all work reliably.

NB: the invite link previously sent has expired. It can be resent if needed.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Anders Gustafsson 10 months ago

Sorry. I have completely missed that. CAn I have an invite too?

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Jonas Lang 10 months ago

Christian Hewitt wrote:

I emailed an intro and discord invite to the address you are registered to this forum with on 13th December. In case that email is bad you've also been asked via comments in the other thread to drop me an email so one can be sent. I've also made the same suggestion to "mralapete" via GitHub comments on the assumption this is also you (due to that user having identical tone/language and issue focus). chewitt@ tvheadend/kodi/libreelec domains all work reliably.

NB: the invite link previously sent has expired. It can be resent if needed.

Your email invites possibly ended up in spam here.

I think at this stage with a comment like

“ (due to that user having identical tone/language and issue focus)”

I’ll respectfully decline the offer. I imagine we’d only end up locking horns anyway. Looks like my gut instinct from the outset was correct from my perspective. I’ll gladly remain as a mere user though.

You may also want to address your own tone too. You are not addressing employees on the TVH forum. One could be forgiven for thinking that.

Like others in the past here I do feel you appear to be spreading your resources rather thin. I do hope that the TVH project doesn’t suffer as a result.

Best of luck with your endeavours though and I do hope you can generate enough traffic/interest towards the new forum to stimulate productive exchanges.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Anders Gustafsson 10 months ago

More spam: https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/48476?r=51387#message-51387

Sorry, the poster email is not visible to me.

RE: Forum Spam - Added by Flole Systems 10 months ago

Done.

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