Scratch

Dawgles wrote:

What happened "this past evening"? It just looks like you're shooting for a moderator spot from this perspective.

A troll attack.  I'm not sure how long the attack went on, but by the time I got on, Paddle2See was on in about 5-10 minutes.

coolstuff wrote:

MoreGamesNow wrote:

Dawgles wrote:

What happened "this past evening"? It just looks like you're shooting for a moderator spot from this perspective.

A troll attack.  I'm not sure how long the attack went on, but by the time I got on, Paddle2See was on in about 5-10 minutes.

It was about 15 minutes: not an altogether long time, but the moderators weren't on, so it was quite a consistent pattern.

Eekk, perhaps we need more moderators.

BTW, coolstuff, your 4 posts away from hitting 10,000.

Dawgles wrote:

What happened "this past evening"? It just looks like you're shooting for a moderator spot from this perspective.

The problem is that people who were not there don't understand how serious this is 

stevetheipad wrote:

JJROCKER wrote:

Dawgles wrote:

What happened "this past evening"? It just looks like you're shooting for a moderator spot from this perspective.

The problem is that people who were not there don't understand how serious this is 

What kind of spam?

Like random posts or inappropriate words and all?

Pictures of gay and straight behaviour, very very bad.

stevetheipad wrote:

Let's see.

If there are seven moderators and admins, which may seem like a lot.
However, there are 967,416 registered members. That is a lot of people, even if some of them aren't currently active. So, seven people have to control about 900,000 people.

Even with censor words, new scratcher status and link control, there should be more users with the ability to delete these spam/troll posts.

Or give everyone the abilty to do so via the vote system.

Dawgles wrote:

JJROCKER wrote:

Dawgles wrote:

What happened "this past evening"? It just looks like you're shooting for a moderator spot from this perspective.

The problem is that people who were not there don't understand how serious this is 

Please explain to me how serious I'm meant to find this. From "a troll attack" I gather that someone came on and swore a lot at people or something similar?

Sounds like it included pictures, swearing and just plain trolling.

but, let's talk about how to fix the problem.

laptop97 wrote:

stevetheipad wrote:

So, seven people have to control about 900,000 people.

  I'd say more around 1,000-1,500 people on the forums. Active ones: Maybe 300-400

Okay!
But even 100 people would be a lot.

The_Dancing_Donut wrote:

How about all links and images (not including the forum smileys like  ), have to be checked in advance by a selected few scratchers and then published?
That way the images will be published fast (allow about 10 additional well-behaved reputable Scratchers to do this so there is more chance that 1 will be on) but still checked. ^^

I think that the vote system is better

muppetds wrote:

The_Dancing_Donut wrote:

How about all links and images (not including the forum smileys like  ), have to be checked in advance by a selected few scratchers and then published?
That way the images will be published fast (allow about 10 additional well-behaved reputable Scratchers to do this so there is more chance that 1 will be on) but still checked. ^^

I think that the vote system is better

As pointed out by many people, the population of Scratch is simply to large to try to moderate it all 24/7 without far too many moderators.  Restricting all images seems pretty severe and makes the work load of the moderators crippling.  The vote system should narrow down what the moderators have to look through AND be instantaneous.  However, as noted by Paddle2See, adding this at the same time that Scratch 2.0 is coming out is difficult.  I'm not sure how the website is programmed, and what they have to deal with, but simply thinking about it makes me shudder.  I am cautiously optimistic that we'll be fine without such a vote system until Scratch 2.0.  Certainly it is important, but I think the attack was an isolated incident.

Only after the event is everyone clamoring for more security (sorry, that doesn't sound grammatically correct).  But what we have to remember is that now is after the attack.  A sudden clamp down won't fix the past, and, based on the past, this was an isolated incident.  An immediate solution is not necessarily necessary.

MoreGamesNow wrote:

Dawgles wrote:

Please explain to me how serious I'm meant to find this. From "a troll attack" I gather that someone came on and swore a lot at people or something similar?

There was actually very little (if any) swearing.  It mostly consisted of images with very strong (intentional) sexual content.

Nope, there was a ton of both.

The_Dancing_Donut wrote:

How about all links and images (not including the forum smileys like  ), have to be checked in advance by a selected few scratchers and then published?
That way the images will be published fast (allow about 10 additional well-behaved reputable Scratchers to do this so there is more chance that 1 will be on) but still checked. ^^

I Was about to say that! 

stevetheipad wrote:

CheckItNow12 wrote:

The_Dancing_Donut wrote:

How about all links and images (not including the forum smileys like  ), have to be checked in advance by a selected few scratchers and then published?
That way the images will be published fast (allow about 10 additional well-behaved reputable Scratchers to do this so there is more chance that 1 will be on) but still checked. ^^

I Was about to say that! 

That's just a disaster waiting to happen.

9/10 Images posted aren't bad and people shouldn't have to submit their image before being able to post it. And it still wouldn't help that much, people could still say things that aren't appropriate.

Yeah, but most images aren't CRITICAL to posts (like meme responses) so is it REALLY that bad? You can always approve images from certain sites anyway. ^^