G+_Ed Bellerose Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 New G+ community rules Hey all. So I have officially hit the switch to make the following changes to the All About Android community here on Google+ - This community is meant to keep discussion on topics from the show. This means that general links to stories/videos that don't inspire discussion will not be posted to the public at large on this community. - All new posts to the community must be approved. I'm afraid as to what this means for moderation. If you could only see the amount of posts that never made it to this community due to automatic Spam detection, let alone the posts that do... it's a lot to manage. I'm hoping it ends up being relatively easy in practice, but we shall see. - New members must request to join. Part of me hates to do this. I like things to be as open as possible. But it's very obvious that many posters have no post history and hope to simply pass links to their spammy content around. No more. One thing I don't have the time for is cleaning up content already posted here. We're talking years of spammy posts and each one takes 3-4 seconds to remove, with dozens upon dozens of daily posts... that's too big a hill to manage after the fact. I had hoped to go through and wipe things out to clean up the landing page here on the community but it's overwhelming. So it'll just have to be a "going forward" sort of change. Unless you have any ideas for wiping out content faster than that? It doesn't seem like G+ makes it super easy to do it quickly. Bummer. Crossing fingers that this improves things around here. I'll be paying more attention here too. I miss you guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brandon K. Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Thanks a lot Jason. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Chris Clark Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Hopefully its not too much for ya Jason, thanks for letting us know what's going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Howell (raygun01) Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 (there, cleaned up things so the top most posts push down the spammy stuff. Sorry if your post got removed... LIke I said, painting with a wide brush at the moment.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Greg Roworth (choppiii) Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 I love G+ and miss what it used to be, this can only make things better... Thanks and good luck Jason Howell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_bil Jeschke Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 I am looking forward to some nice discussions with a hopefully reinvigorated community. With the main problem cleaned up, time to focus on content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ron Lebron Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Thank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Mink Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Judging by the amount of spam I HAVE seen in the community, I'm terrified to hear most of it never even makes it to us.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Mink Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 As was said by others, thanks for the heads up on these changes. It's appreciated :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dom Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 I hope the changes just makes AAA all the better,after all change is a good thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rod Hardy Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Thanks, it's the right move ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kirk Corless Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Hey Jason Howell?, if you need some help as a moderator, I can help you out if need be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brian M. Ross Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Isn't that what interns are for? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Howell (raygun01) Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Kirk Corless thank you for the offer Kirk. So far things are going pretty smoothly. Let me see how the dust settles in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Chris Harpner (CSharpne Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Jason Howell count me in too, if you need any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kirk Corless Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Jason Howell No worries. Happy to help if need be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tony Nolen Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 I am glad things have been cleaned up. It is good to have a place to discuss show topics. I miss the interactions that we had at the beginning of G+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Aaron Stepanik Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 If the posts and locations of clicks are generic, you can use a macro tool to move the mouse and do it..and just let it run for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Josh Frye Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Jason Howell you might want to pin this post to make sure it is one of the first that people see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Howell (raygun01) Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Josh Frye Great idea, DONE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Mike Rigsby Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Jason Howell offer stands if you want some Moderator assistance Jason. I'm an Owner of the largest IT Professionals Community and have help in there so I can happily help you guys here as well if you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Vic Lovan Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Awesome! I may not post a ton of stuff, but I really do love G+. And I'm reading this post as I just this minute reported "franklie roger" as a spammer, not to mention posting total crap as far as the infographics that account was passing on as security. I will certainly try to help clean up what I can. - Vic "UncleBic" from the chat. Good move Jason Howell. We know you didn't want to drop the hammer, but for now, I'm sure it needed to be done. I'll bet this make this community better, and stronger. Maybe if more communities did this, G+ will gain back more users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tony Nolen Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 It's ironic that a spammer has responded to this post. (Alice Lee) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Mike Rigsby Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Tony Nolen yeah I've often only known about spammers in my community because they would comment on my own posts. I figure it was nice of them to make it so much easier for me to ban them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Howell (raygun01) Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Tony Nolen no kidding! Gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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