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This spammer keeps posting spam comments with images in the comments of YousableTubeFix and RedTube. I and some other users flag his comments and they get deleted a few days later, but oc1m (probably an ad bot) automatically posts them again as soon as they are deleted. This has happened four or five times

Maybe I'm ranting, but I think the administrators have to take a more aggressive policy against spam. If all the comments of an user are spam, why isn't its account deleted and its site address banned? If all its scripts are copy/paste of other scriptwriters' work or it has 7 unlisted "scrap all" scripts (like this one), why is it allowed to keep its account? I have reported this script as a copy/paste of YousableTubeFix (ok, the "work" to remove the comments with credits is his) months ago, but it is still there; this user is filling the blog posts with spam to get pagerank, etc...

It is not that I'm being ungrateful. I appreciate the effort of the administrators to make this web site to help the Greasemonkey community. It's that I hate to see some users spoiling the site for everyone else

Thanks - I deleted oc61m about the same time you asked :) Comment spam is cut and dry.

Script copies are harder to deal with since I'm really not in a position to police it. I want to add a system so that you (the members) can make decision on individual scripts - instead of me acting a dictator.

I spent a few hours today dealing with CSS and other small fixes (banning all mailinator email addresses, ...). Now I'm moving to the harder stuff (thinking about how to fix the problem you bring up).

Thanks for removing that spammer's account. I appreciate that you answered so quickly. May I ask you why didn't you delete it when I told you about it in the three last "remove spam" reports? Is it an automated system?

A dictator? That's something I don't understand. I wasn't asking you about policing complex issues like script mods, script "packages" or borrowing functions, but about flagrant attempts to take advantage of other scriptwriters' work (i.e., copying exactly the script except the comments with the author name and changing the script title). It's not very important in my case, but I know some scripts that have been copied like this four or five times

Mindeye, the previous reports weren't deleted because it isn't automated. I look at feedback, spam, bugs, and feeds every day.

I wish I could devote all my time to this site, but I have a full time startup that eats LOTS of my time. Now that the comment voting system has been released, it should help with keep spammers at bay... (of course they will attack back and then it will have to become more sophisticated) Now we can think of a way to try to fix scripts by having the community decide.

One thing that probably needs to happen is users have to earn the right for their votes to count (so spammers don't create TONS of accounts just to vote).

Ok Jesse, thanks for your dedication to the site. I didn't want to sound too harsh, I know that you work on the site on your spare time as I do in my scripts. I like the new comment voting system (although 460px width for the comments is too low for my screen, how about incrementing it?), I just ask for more energetic measures against spammers (account deletion and URL banning, for example)

Oops (regarding the size of comments)! I use a weird tiling window manager and had thought I had used a fixed width (not elastic width) grid on the site.

I need to redesign the CSS!

Mindeye, I completely understand your frustration and think you put it in a very reasonable way. I wasn't mad or upset when I read them.

I have been VERY hesitant to police scripts because: 1) if I am choosing what is present on the site then I can be held liable. 2) it might not be clear who created the script originally.

That is why I want to put in place a system where the community can talk about a script and say "this is wrong" and vote/rate it out of existence (or at least hidden from everyone).