Huge +1 !
I’m enjoying killing the posts by salespersons from Chinese companies. Sign up and advertise using a link never to be seen again. KILL KILL KILL!!!
Kill spam. All. The. Time.
I just asked info on a flashlight that was never
heard here and they marked me a spammer?
what a cruel world to live in 
Hi breinrules, getting rid of spammer posts is a very good thing and I'm glad that so many here help to keep the forum clean from it. But it can happen occasionally that a non-spam post is wrongly identified as spam by a couple of members (it needs more than one person marking a post as spam to remove it) and gets removed if it looks suspicious. That is not cruelty but a simple mistake.
Please try to post your question again, it helps if you do that in a way that it does not look like spam.
Anyone marking spam when a new member is asking a genuine question should be hit with a temp ban or something, that’s rubbish and shouldn’t happen
Well, a lot worse than that has happened. I guess you missed the time when ImA4WheelR got auto-banned from the site a couple months ago because a few overzealous people marked one of his posts as spam. He’s been around for quite a while and has been an active member that everyone should know is not a spammer. We seem to have at least a few here who like to shoot from the hip. So, I’m not surprised that a new member got tagged as spam. Yes, it is wrong. But sometimes the people who do this aren’t trying to be cruel, they are just not thinking it through or something. I do think the system may need an update to keep this from happening, if that is possible.
I have not been on many other forums, but I think it works ok like this: in a forum populated by reasonable people (as I think BLF is) the best judges for spam posts are the forum users, and since (I think) 5 markings from different members are required for removal of a post, that post will at least look like spam.
Yeah I think the system works OK, if you have one post and post a link to a light saying what do you guys think of this light, even if the poster is genuine, its spammy to onlookers.
In Ima4wheelers case, he had a number of threads I think, all blank for future use. To people who have recently joined, they might see that as SPAM too. Those who know, know its not, but you have to reasonable aboutn this, it COULD easily appear as SPAM to some. In some cases even with hundreds of posts, a member could be spamming.
Whats required is thicker skins. An email to Admin fixed Ima4wheelers issues, a mere blip, and only offensive if you take it that way. IN the case of a new member, again, same thing. With a thicker skin you could assess your post and think, yeah I can see how that was seen as SPAM and move on.
Very reasonable post. I’ll buy it. 
EF wrote:
Yeah I think the system works OK, if you have one post and post a link to a light saying what do you guys think of this light, even if the poster is genuine, its spammy to onlookers.
In Ima4wheelers case, he had a number of threads I think, all blank for future use. To people who have recently joined, they might see that as SPAM too. Those who know, know its not, but you have to reasonable aboutn this, it COULD easily appear as SPAM to some. In some cases even with hundreds of posts, a member could be spamming.
Whats required is thicker skins. An email to Admin fixed Ima4wheelers issues, a mere blip, and only offensive if you take it that way. IN the case of a new member, again, same thing. With a thicker skin you could assess your post and think, yeah I can see how that was seen as SPAM and move on.
They were not blank posts. They said exactly what they were from the start. Please don't spread misinformation.
Fixed my issues? Yes, he unbanned me. He also supported me through the process when I tried to implement a make shift counterbalance for the over zealous spam button clickers.
Yes, I definitely had thin skin before being banned. It felt safe here. A place for a nerd like me to be him/her self. Being banned caught me off guard for sure, but it didn't chase me off or make me cry. I stayed and tried to implement a counter balance which upset a few vocal people.. I think inappropriately causing someone to be banned is a much bigger sin than someone being proactive and trying to improve the process.
As you said, you didnt leave, and rightly so. It was annoying for you, but reading anything more in to that and it would be your interpretation making it so. No one thinks you deserved to be banned, not least of all SB. Its not like a staff member manually said yep to the report, and then banned you… its an automated process so no point being offended by its actions. Maybe review the process, but no point being the slightest offended IMO.
Blank or unfinished OPs, its all a question of semantics. It still took more than one member to think something was wrong with your thread. Or were they PMing each other and targeting you?
Please don't assume I'm offended. I merely stated that your post was not accurate.
You're question is silly. How would I know if such a thing was happening? All that matters to me is that SB has a record of every SPAM button click. I trust him to handle abusers appropriately. For me that was end of story.
Do you really want to start rehashing all of this again? If so, why?
Someone else raised your auto banning.
I put that into some perspective.
You split hairs over the statement of blank v unfinished posts.
Its a thread, its all up there to read, last 9 or 10 posts starting with a newbie post (post 143). No I didnt want to bring it up, and I didnt. I merely addressed its situation after it was brought up.
I'll take that as agreement that we should let sleeping dogs lie.
Hi there, I can’t seem to find any posts of yours that have been removed by SPAM clicks. When that happens, they are not deleted, just hidden from the public but still visible to me. So, in the case of your first post, someone in their written comment unfortunately asked/accused you of being a spammer. That hurts, and I’m sorry it happened to you here.
As for the issue of a legitimate member being banned by spam clicks, it is still an exceedingly rare occurrence, but that’s doesn’t mean that it’s not a major insult for the person it happened to. I probably should implement a check against the amount of time and posts that the user has. The thing is, the system was implemented when spammers were really overrunning our forum, and since they were still “coming out the woodworks” so to speak, I figured that even some old accounts with lots of posts could still be spammers. Now that spam is under control, I’ll see what I can do to tweak the system a bit more.
thanks for the concern man, i guess you really value members here (new or old)
I just wonder if people will doubt me less if I
post a link for popular brands like foursevens
or fenix.
I guess a link for a never before seen flashlight
in a chinese site is more fishy? but at least it
is not some fleshlight or dogfood.
by the way, how do you categorize a post as
spam? can flashlight links be spam or nonflashlight
links are spam?
I guess some of our older users have just been burned by some astute spammers who come to BLF posing as users with questions about a product. So I don’t think it matters whether it’s a link to an expensive brand or a budget brand; they (we) just simply make mistakes sometimes.
With that being said, I created BLF principally out of my frustration with other flashlight sites that prohibited posting links, and we had to refer to specific products as “SKU #4653 on DX”. So as long as the user is asking a legitimate question and is not a spammer, posting links is actually encouraged here.
As for what constitutes spam, this thread might help: [08-Mar-2012] New SPAM mitigation scheme in place
As I recall I have only hit the spam button twice and the last one was for a totally non thread related link inserted for an employment related site by some jerkoff. Something has to be pretty blatant for me to hit the spam button. After all this is the internet and even though I think that some opinions are pretty dumb I remember the comparison between opinions and a—holes, everyone has one!
What tends to bug me more are posts from people in English speaking countries which prove that they are barely literate in their native language. They illustrate just how bad our schools have become. When foreigners do a better job posting in English than native speakers do there is something wrong.
I am quite enjoying my mod status on other forums, there I can silence them, edit their ppostsin an amusing way and leave them like a carcass hanging from the state line as a warning to other would be spammers, it amuses me I have to admit.
Btw, it would be nice if it was possible to actually KILL spammers… hm… anyone got contacts in the NSA? CIA? Indefinite holding would also work,
Fun killing the Kitchen Spammer … Crazy
I smoked all the kitchen spam too. It sure felt great! Crazy
. . . so then he added the mark as spam button. After a few of us hit it then it automatically goes away.
It looks like Marie might actually HAVE a dress shop, and came here for help to pick the correct LED’s to light her product. Looking for advice and help setting up her store perhaps? Also looks like she included links so that we could see what she is doing and offer wise advice.
And got kicked in the face. So much for the friendliest forum on earth…
I can’t even remember finding spam here… actually now that I think of it: I do recall hitting the SPAM button once. How are you guys finding it? Do they create a new thread, or do they jump in on existing ones all the time? I guess I’m lucky all my posts don’t get whacked….
Killed a fashion-based spammer just now. My apologies to toykeeper and Chloe and any of the other ladies around who might want handbags. Or any of the fellas who like them as well.
I wonder if we get repeat spammers since they have to go through all the account setup effort for about 1 minute of existence here. Seems like a lost cause to me.
I try to get ‘em when I can, impale the spammers I say! or is that a spam kebab?
Killed 3 today already!
I zapped them too...morons.
That’s six tonight so far.
It’s a good job the old spam cannon doesn’t run out of rounds. Wink
3 more tonight got the spam hammer. they are outta’ control.
Pitched that coin in the air and ZAP gone! I guess it is fun but I don’t see them very often.
A button that not only kills the spam post but also vaporizes the spammer would be nice… Crazy Hmmm… a worldwide network of drones loaded with spammer seeking missiles. Click… wooosh… BAM!
I’m enjoying killing the posts by salespersons from Chinese companies. Sign up and advertise using a link never to be seen again. KILL KILL KILL!!!
Kill spam. All. The. Time.
And the best of all:
Imagine what these fools could achieve if they placed their time and effort into legitimate avenues of promoting their business.
Ha, ha, ha
To late, the dog has been stirred and won't go back to sleep.
Such tough bad asses. You're true solders on a mission for the righteous pounding your little spammy buttons with free abandon.
It's so easy to hurt others when you don't feel pain.
I see now why my attempts to get the abusers in the bunch under control got a few of you so excited. Your freedom without consequence was threatened.
By the way, was it some of you all that made new member czech_guy disappear? Class act that. A chance to reach across the divide and show we don't hate the world and actually first really listen to others that feel hurt by our words, actions. etc. Certainly, some harsh, ugly words were said that hurt others and we should have been prepared for some hard questions.
click, click, click