Alex Kemp>>No evidence == immediate remove-submission if removal request received from “spammer” + only one submission in DB
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I have been submitted and banned , once or twice my self,..ha, one time the moderator did include a e-mail ,
to me, that I had been banned and submitted as a spammer. Well , I knew I had not posted any spam, so
I replied and asked to please tell me , why my post was considered spam, obviously I wanted to avoid the
same thing happening again and not having a clue as to why it was spam makes it hard.
The response was, that is sounded "spammy" to them, and also because I use a lot of .....
Like in , "Let me think a minuet...." I notice both the OP, and Sklerder do the same,...
Well, maybe you should just be patient ...
So any way, I wrote back that as far as I know, using to many .... does not qualify as spam,
the moderator apologized and removed me,.. just goes to show though.
i dont know how your structure works internally.
Normally, each structure announces its rules, so, its the first place to go.
Ive tried contacting site admin of the forum
Well, maybe you should just be patient ...
sklerder
]]>I have given all the information i have and discussed it here i also submitted to the link garry referred me to. .It seems there are different opinions , i dont know how your structure works internally. Ive tried contacting site admin of the forum to no avail.. I have done what i can so if this is how it is then so be it.
]]>By seeing the statistics of the named site, I note (quoting your answer, Garry) :
- 1148317 Spammers Denied Registration (at the moment I'm posting, it only incremented of 1)
- 17634 Spammers submitted to StopForumSpam
IMHO, the ratio (~1.5 %) between denied registrations and SFS submissions seems to be reasonable, no ?
- 153300 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated
Compared to the number of SFS submitted spammers, it seems reasonable, too.
@JohnBeil : You should really discuss with this forum (the incriminated one) moderators or administrators, if you believe that they (illegally) banned you.
Their politic is theirs, its not SFS's politic.
On a site I own and on another where I'm moderator, bans and/or registration denies are discussed with the team and only with the team (it's not any third party tool which decides of banning or deny registration).
Between these two sites, over more than 100,000 submissions), I've had only one disagreement (five years ago) with a subscription (due to a too restrictive SFS check), and it was solved between the registrant and me without any discussion with SFS.
Spam-O-Matic Statistics
1148317 Spammers Denied Registration
5449 Spammers Permanently Banned
17634 Spammers submitted to StopForumSpam
19231 Spammers submitted to Akismet
153300 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated
It may take some time to check all of this, but I can assure you, if it turns out they are submitting people
that did not actually post any spam they will end up banned here, and unable to get a API key, it may also
just be a "trigger happy" auto-moderator, but in any even it will be looked into,
-You can edit a css file directly as you would in a standard static html by inserting a new rule for the class.
-In WordPress admin under editor there is a option for additional css the overrides i believe the style.css so find the class of the text you wish to change and insert the new css there, i try avoid this as it might block one css rule to alow another.
-You can install a plugin that alows control over typography this however i would not recommend as it is an additional plugin and may cause speed issues and sometimes limits the controls to headings and paragraphs only but if you have no other way it could help.
This is what i replied.....
]]>i wish i could access a cache of that page and show you what was banned it was ridiculous.
So you do know why you were banned ?It may have seemed ridicules to you, but apparently the site admin does not think it is so ridicules. Or it was just a simple mistake.
If you think that by constantly posting here is going to speed up the removal process , you are "barking up the wrong tree".
Look im not here to pick a fight, i just want my submission reviewed and hope that it doesn't effect my standing within other communities. Where does one report abuse of your services ?
We all ready have told you several times the process takes some time.
I understand the database Being you , is not responsible , but when you yield such massive influence over others you become the third party.
That would technically be unlawful sabotage, or slandering. (provided there is no evidence ofcourse).
You don't know, maybe the site that banned you does have copies of what you posted saved, and
even though they did not include it in the "evidence" on the submission, they do have the evidence, often people do not include excessively long posts, and if and when it is many , multiple posts, often they do not put it all in the evidence field because it is to long,...
You might find this interesting to read :
https://www.stopforumspam.com/threats
I assure you everything we are doing is legal, and again, I want to stress this, posting over and over, like you are doing , is not going to speed up the process of getting a removal.
If you browse some of the other topics you will see , as I mentioned , this is not the first time we have had some one complain because they were submitted to the data base, but it is not very often it was due to "unlawful sabotage, or slandering.", or anything like that.
Have good day.
by chance if you are wondering why there is no evidence submitted that would be because there is none.
Very well thanks for your assistance Gary and John it seems all i can do is wait there is no point in me trying to prove anything here.
]]>JohnBeil>>Im sure you guys have heard these types of posts a million times before , about spam reports, and spammers wanting removal.
Actually no, not even close to a million times, yes there are a few posts from so called "innocent victims",
that have been wrong fully submitted, but very few. You can browse the forum topics , you will see
there are not very many. A few, actually were a mistake, or should not have been submitted, and they
got the removal as requested.
Its like a single business decides i am not a good person to give financial credit to based on no actual evidence so they submit me to get blacklisted on a database, which is trusted by other businesses to give them a clear indication of who m to give credit to. Now i cannot get credit anywhere else, based on the misuse and assumption of one entry.
I understand the database Being you , is not responsible , but when you yield such massive influence over others you become the third party.
That would technically be unlawful sabotage, or slandering. (provided there is no evidence ofcourse).
Look im not here to pick a fight, i just want my submission reviewed and hope that it doesn't effect my standing within other communities. Where does one report abuse of your services ?
i wish i could access a cache of that page and show you what was banned it was ridiculous.
I know excalty what post it was because i had signed up , did the introduction even got a welcome. Then i answered a question somebody had about changing font in wordpress, which i know three diffrent methods to , i explained these methods , left NO link or signatures , and the post dissapeared and i was suddenly in your database
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