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Bolton_Alan
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Spam Posts

05/23/2007 6:58 AM

Would it be possible to block any posts that have a brand name in the title? With a lookup list that you could add new brands to?

Just a thought because I find it so irritating that there are so many posts just recently with Jordan or Nike in the the title and although we may discuss a particular brand at times, we don't necessarily have to put its name in the title.

Any other ideas on how to stop this problem?

Al

P.S. I keep reading $low as SLOW must be something to do with the people who post these ads

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05/23/2007 9:37 AM

Hi

We're working on something to help (we do seem to have one rather persistent shoe salesman) but in general, I think the community (you folks!) are doing a great job of reporting the bad posts (using the "Report!" button) and the CR4 editors are on top of them pretty quickly. Overall I think we're keeping CR4 relatively free of spam, but we'll try to do better.

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05/23/2007 10:38 AM

Yep! I concur...........

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05/23/2007 1:10 PM

You should know! You're our star "reporter"! We keep talking back here about how to acknowledge your efforts, but don't worry... we'll come up with something.

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05/24/2007 7:43 AM

Please...no complements before lunch.........

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05/23/2007 11:04 AM

Thanks,

keep up the good work.

Everything else is top notch

Al

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