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Started by Lavarock7, May 04, 2022, 11:09:54 PM

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Lavarock7

I have opened a ticket asking for *SOMEONE* to moderate the forum in the hopes they can delete/stop all the spam.

When HP takes over it will be interesting to see if the forum stays as user-to-user or if they take an active part in support.

If I still worked at HP I would ask to take over moderation here, but alas, that ship has sailed decades ago. I only made it 17 years until Carly Fiorina  decided to cut 1/3 of the workforce.
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MSRobi

I agree that we desperately need moderation.  The spam is 99% of the posts now.

What I'm happy about is that we real users lately haven't been adding to the pile with "^^^SPAM" follow-up replies which makes the entire thread "new/unread" again.

PusBucket

Quote from: Lavarock7 on May 04, 2022, 11:09:54 PMI have opened a ticket asking for *SOMEONE* to moderate the forum in the hopes they can delete/stop all the spam.

When HP takes over it will be interesting to see if the forum stays as user-to-user or if they take an active part in support.

If I still worked at HP I would ask to take over moderation here ...

Agree about the forum spam problem. I would be happy to check in a few times weekly and delete spam. Your post seems to imply that one must work at HP in order to moderate, though? 

 > six-year obihai user, though only one or two previous forum posts.

PusBucket



It's unfortunate that the "ignore" feature doesn't work.

Lavarock7

Quote from: PusBucket on May 05, 2022, 09:18:25 AM
Quote from: Lavarock7 on May 04, 2022, 11:09:54 PMI have opened a ticket asking for *SOMEONE* to moderate the forum in the hopes they can delete/stop all the spam.

When HP takes over it will be interesting to see if the forum stays as user-to-user or if they take an active part in support.

If I still worked at HP I would ask to take over moderation here ...

Agree about the forum spam problem. I would be happy to check in a few times weekly and delete spam. Your post seems to imply that one must work at HP in order to moderate, though? 

 > six-year obihai user, though only one or two previous forum posts.

NO, my comment meant that since HP was buying Poly/Obi, perhaps they will do a better job with the forum.

I used to work at HP and would have (if I still worked there) been happy to moderate when that happens. I used to run computer BBs with forums and email, before it was a popular thing to use.

Anyone might be able to moderate a forum, but it does help to have an employee/representative of the company helping to enforce topics.
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