Truemors
Two things came up today related to flagging spam.
1) Marking a story as spam does not pull it out of the "shout out" area on the homepage. If it does, there is a delay. [Brian sent this to the dev team already, this is just for general information so no one else reports it] Later I marked a comment s spam and it did come out or was pushed out of the "shout out" area.
2) There used to be a way to flag an image as spam, now there does not appear to be. Am I not seeing the option (flag?) or the hover on the title of the image (previous site design; menu)? There are images in the NP stream that should be pruned.
at 06:51 on April 26th, 2007
True that. WHenever I get a spare moment, I do a tag-based sweep of photos, deleting the obvious porn. Please let me know if there are any that I miss, and I will kick those images to the curb!
at 07:25 on April 26th, 2007
In reply to #1 jordan at 06:51 on April 26th, 2007
Will do!
at 05:55 on August 2nd, 2007
New user here. The second or third story I clicked on is obviously spam but I'm having trouble figuring out how to mark it as such.
When I hover over the "Flag Story" button, I get the little Javascript swirly graphic and then am presented with a grayed-out checkmark-enclosed-in-a-circle "choose a flag". When I hover over the checkmark graphic, the circle around the checkmark turns orange and the text turns to "this is good stuff".
I've poked around the forum and the flagging guide but I'm obviously missing something here. Using Win XP SP2 IE7 with latest Java environment.
I was very interested in checking out your site after I saw it written up on TechCrunch. THe excitemeht is dissapating (sp?). Hope you can help.
No News Valule Here, just a shameless self-promotion: http://www.nowpublic.com/watch_alex_mandossian_tv
at 10:23 on August 2nd, 2007
In reply to #3 scjoyce at 05:55 on August 2nd, 2007
First of all, welcome to NP! Secondly, thanks for taking advantage of the forum to air your concern.
The "carrot" flag (Good Stuff) is available to all our users, whilst the "stick" flags are reserved for editors. We since some come to the site with nefarious purposes, we can't have a situation in which folks can just nuke articles they don't like, for example. Part of my job is dealing with spammers, and I assure you I'm like their least-favorite vice principal! All content generated goes live instantly, which is both exciting and a bit scary, since blatant (dare I say it) crap can get a few precious moments of breathing room before one of our editors blasts it into oblivion.
(dee eye ess esse ye peeay ay tee eye en gee-- dissipating. sorry. couldn't help myself)