Suggestion: Post Moderation for New Accounts

This may be an unpopular suggestion for those new forum accounts that are created for legitimate reasons but here goes:

I've noticed that seemingly each night this board gets spammed with multiple posts from new accounts that are all advertising something.

Suggestion: Place all newly created accounts into a "moderation" mode where posts they create are placed into a moderation status before their posts go public. Bots can still create accounts and create posts but until a human moderator physically approves the accounts / posts, their posts will not appear on the forum. Rejected posts / Accounts are automatically deleted.

I know this suggestion has an administration and development cost attached to it and I'm not sure if PH has the resources for it but it's just a suggestion to combat this problem.

Eyedol-X wrote:This may be an unpopular suggestion for those new forum accounts that are created for legitimate reasons but here goes:

I've noticed that seemingly each night this board gets spammed with multiple posts from new accounts that are all advertising something.

Suggestion: Place all newly created accounts into a "moderation" mode where posts they create are placed into a moderation status before their posts go public. Bots can still create accounts and create posts but until a human moderator physically approves the accounts / posts, their posts will not appear on the forum. Rejected posts / Accounts are automatically deleted.

I know this suggestion has an administration and development cost attached to it and I'm not sure if PH has the resources for it but it's just a suggestion to combat this problem.

It is interesting that these posts seem to occur at night. Now that you mention it, I guess that they don't occur during the day. The bot owners must be operating in Russia, where it's daytime at that point.

I'll look into this issue. The problem is that these bots are very easy to deal with, but if we set all posts into a queue like that, then it requires a lot of manpower to review every post of a new user, not just the bot posts. A simpler solution might be, since these posts tend to happen only at night, to simply have Chris review the forums more frequently, since the posts are occurring at the time he's awake.

Or add the words pandora, nike, necklace, perfume to the list of blocked words.

And just not see those posts come up again, same way d33p 0nion was dealt with.

CSZiggy wrote:Or add the words pandora, nike, necklace, perfume to the list of blocked words.

And just not see those posts come up again, same way d33p 0nion was dealt with.

Good idea. I'll do that now.

It's odd to me that these posts about the same things keep coming up, despite that they are deleted and the users banned. Surely they would be better off not wasting time at forums that will actually leave the posts up.