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Oct 26, 2020
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PowerOfApawn wrote:
There is a spam plague that is happening in chess.com, Can employees please take action?
I haven't been seeing a spam problem. The quality of topics a lot of the time is questionable, but nothing that is truly spam.
@Martin_Stahl, the spam is serious. The people spamming are opening multiple troll accounts and cursing [ the s word and bad words in russian ] and constantly harrassing multiple members in their notes. Also booing clubs
@Itude, I'M NOT KIDDING ITS SERIOUS
Check the clubs Chessbrahs
Oct 26, 2020
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PowerOfApawn wrote:
@Martin_Stahl, the spam is serious. The people spamming are opening multiple troll accounts and cursing [ the s word and bad words in russian ] and constantly harrassing multiple members in their notes. Also booing clubs
I've seen one pop up in the general forums and handled it but it looks like most of it may be on notes and clubs. In that case, the member with the note will have to report it and in clubs, the admins will have to handle it.
There is no way for the site to monitor all the clubs and notes. Other than the filters that are in place or changing how quickly new members are able to post. In the latter case, I don't think that is likely to change based on previous discussions I've seen.
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Martin_Stahl wrote:
PowerOfApawn wrote:
@Martin_Stahl, the spam is serious. The people spamming are opening multiple troll accounts and cursing [ the s word and bad words in russian ] and constantly harrassing multiple members in their notes. Also booing clubs
I've seen one pop up in the general forums and handled it but it looks like most of it may be on notes and clubs. In that case, the member with the note will have to report it and in clubs, the admins will have to handle it.
There is no way for the site to monitor all the clubs and notes. Other than the filters that are in place or changing how quickly new members are able to post. In the latter case, I don't think that is likely to change based on previous discussions I've seen.
Join any big clubs and you will see.
It is happening in Chess University, NM Coach Bill's Video Lessons Club, Road to GM, The Golden 64 Squares, CHESSBRAHS, ChessForAll...
Oct 26, 2020
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#11
Yes, and generally speaking admins handle their own clubs. Unless a moderator/staff is a member of a club and see obvious abuse, then it will likely be handled at that point.
I would appreciate if you become a member of my club and see what is happening, after I promote you to admin...
I bet this will happen again tomorrow
Oct 26, 2020
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#14
BISHOP_e3 wrote:
Hello Martin_Stahl.
A new feature in V3 is that clubs can no longer ban members who are not club members.
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Not true. You can ban non-club members.
I do it all the time in a club I admin for.
Oct 26, 2020
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#16
BISHOP_e3 wrote:
That note is in your club --
No, there isn't a note in the club I banned you from.
Oct 26, 2020
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#17
BISHOP_e3 wrote:
Hello Martin!
I am banned from your club "Latruncus Obscura".
These are the notes there:
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Do you have another club that I have been banned from?
I'd be happy to post some of the notes from that club also.
I think you should follow Itude's advice and ban me from more clubs.
I'd be delighted to show you more notes.
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Your comment was that V3 doesn't allow banning of non-club members. I banned you and you weren't in the club. Just because you might be able to use the API to pull data from the club (or using some other workaround) doesn't negate the fact that you are indeed banned from a club that you weren't a member of.
Also, being able to see notes of a club that has them set to private is a completely different issue. Banning in and of itself does not prevent the banned member from from seeing notes anyway.
So, if you want to move the goalposts, that's fine, just be honest about what you are doing 
edit, to put the rest of the message I left out of my very first quote:
So the total claim is that notes had to be made private to prevent posting them. So, if you want to test that theory I can ban you from a different club, Chess Rx, that no longer has private notes and currently isn't private. It's not active anymore so feel free to post a note.
Oct 27, 2020
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#18
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:
BISHOP_e3 wrote:
Hello Martin_Stahl.
A new feature in V3 is that clubs can no longer ban members who are not club members.
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Not true. You can ban non-club members.
I do it all the time in a club I admin for.
But the problem is AFAIK there is no good way to keep an annoying member out of a club. I would love to be proven wrong on this, but as far as I'm aware, members can send endless join requests to a club, pestering the admins forever. And if they are accepted into the club and then banned immediately they can still read the clubs private notes by adding /notes into the URL.
You can't send a join request to a club you're banned from. That's one of my use cases. So, if banned members can see notes, there must be some workaround because it didn't work in my basic testing just by going to the notes URL. It errors giving a message about being banned.
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There is a spam plague that is happening in chess.com, Can employees please take action?