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Message from David Hernandez

Fri, 11 May 2012 22:19:49 GMT

Oh, sad to hear that. Those !$%&# human spammer. Why don't they be a regular robot spammer like everyone else? ¬¬

Knowing this we'll keep report spammers. I can't figure out another idea it wasn't already suggested.

Thank you @Steffen and team, great job, whenever I can I promote 23, at the moment it is the only way I can help you. :)

Message from Steffen Fagerström Christensen

Fri, 11 May 2012 19:30:08 GMT

@davidhdz: I would absolutely love to. In fact, we'd love to. The problem is that our spam problems are human spam -- basically people filling in the spam comments and filling in the catchas. In fact, spammers are more happy to fill in a few or those to be whitelisted; and then even start automating spam from there. For a while, we privileged paying users, but spammers ended up using that as well (we made $80 on the adventure before changing policy, but that's neither here not there...).

Steffen

Message from David Hernandez

Thu, 10 May 2012 03:10:30 GMT

@steffen could you guys consider to apply mandatory captcha for comments from non registered user? If pass the test that ip range could go to a "white list" (or any other rule you want to apply).

I like the option that everybody could comment, even if not registered, bad thing is almost daily I have to mark several comments as spam.

Message from Steffen Fagerström Christensen

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:30:10 GMT

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@clvrmnky: I agree, and the current block is *not* meant to be permanent. I really want to open up again, but I think we need to strenghen the path of least resistance for a few weeks longer. From then, we will make the "require registration to comment" option be the default, but open up for anonymous comments again. Yes?

Message from Th Clvr Mnky

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:40:42 GMT

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As discussed in the past, I think it is important to not lock out those who just don't want to sign up to Yet Another Online Service.

Many of my comments come from folks who aren't likely to ever sign up for a variety of reasons (as much as I promote 23!)

Message from Em Sanity

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:19:13 GMT

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+1 for the option.

Message from dglp

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:57:09 GMT

Re: Comments by registered users only
Options are good.
I'd rather not restrict on any fixed basis.
Option to delete, approve/deny, or trust would be most helpful.

Message from chakra

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:43:09 GMT

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It would be good to let users decide. Lately I had a bit (not that much) of spam, but I understand it can get really worse for people with good streams.
So, for me is +1 ;)

Message from Paulo Brabo

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:03:19 GMT

Re: Comments by registered users only
As with everything, I think this should be ideally optional:

> Don't allow comments on your photos
> Allow comments from registered 23 users only
> Allow comments from anyone

Spam is an important factor here, but not only that. I can try blocking or suggest the deletion of a 23 user, but I can't block the annoying anonymoys guy who pops (sometimes repeatedly) from nowhere and says whatever crap he wants on my photos. Meanness, offensiveness and plain stupidity can do more immediate harm than spam.

Message from Steffen Fagerström Christensen

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:16:37 GMT

Re: Comments by registered users only
It's not a bad idea; although we'd love to keep everything open. Having to log in in order to participate is always bad. However, when spam becomes a problem, we should probably reconsider... Does anyone have opinions on this? (It should be noted that some of the recent spam has been from registered users, so this isn't a magic pill.)

Message from Paulo Brabo

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:37:38 GMT

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I'd love to have the option to leave comments on my photos open -- but limited to 23 registered users, alla Flickr. Has this been brought up before?