This room is to report accounts suspected of spamming on FriendFeed. Please post the user, one or more examples of suspected spam, and a short description of what is happening. Please search for an existing user before posting and Comment/Like the existing post instead of making a new one.
Although I won't be the one to handle it because I don't deal with non-English posts, you need to link to examples of the spam. Just referring the user's account isn't good enough.
- Akiva
He/She spam with leave same comments under all active users feeds ... simply use Google translate and you will see what i am talking about .. these is one of the example : http://friendfeed.com/greentu...
- مرگ بر خامنه ای ☮ درویش
Spammers tried this Technique before with creating fake account with other people user-names and avatars or using offensive language towards other active FF users to creating a chaos which eventually cause to slow down and maybe stop active users from Separating the News and necessary information and data. Since there are hundreds of spammers trying to spam with a same Technique and...
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- مرگ بر خامنه ای ☮ درویش
Akiva ... if you need to translate anything from Persian to English ...many of us can help you with the translation...you just need to ask !
- آتشزاد
"NICE TO MEET YOU. my name is jean.here is my privet e-mail'(...) i will like to know you more. so that i can send you my picture and my detail's for you to know me more so I am waiting for your mail to my email address below. please don't chat me here just send me mail and i will get back to you with love. - Faith Love"
- Tinfoil 2.0
As far as I can tell, you have a lot of trolls there, but not spammers. Posting repeated periods is annoying as hell, but it's not commercial and thus not spam. I recommend blocking these trolling users so you do not see their posts anymore.
- Spidra Webster
yes this kind of behaviour is defined trolling, not spamming.. but for a post with more than 400 comments from about 25 fake accounts blocking is not enough... just deleting the comments takes a long time... an they have to be deleted because the name of fake users are insulting to a point I have NEVER seen in my life.
- ساوالان
Unfortunately, Friendfeed/Facebook employees are hardly ever here anymore so blocking is the best option you have available to you until someone who has the power to enforce TOS shows up...
- Spidra Webster
yes ... this is not the only thing we are doing, these users are already blocked and we are deleting the comments and trying the get admin's attention in the same time ;)
- ساوالان
Yes, it's good to have it recorded here so it's here when someone with the power to do something about it shows up.
- Spidra Webster
Spammers tried this Technique before with creating fake account with other people user-names and avatars to creating a chaos which eventually cause to slow down and maybe stop active users from Separating the News and necessary information and data. Since there are hundreds of spammers trying to spam with a same Technique and they are not speak English it would be so hard for adman to...
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- مرگ بر خامنه ای ☮ درویش
Here's what I know of FF spam enforcement: most of the people who are empowered to take care of spam are volunteers. Most of them speak/read English as their first language. They are empowered to get rid of spam, which is defined as commercial posts/comments in non-commercial areas and posts that are cross-posted to a very long list of groups,
In order that the power is not used in an arbitrary way, it is necessary not just to post the user's home feed URL, but to post a link to examples of places where the user has spammed. If the entire conversation linked to takes place in a language other than English, it may be difficult for those volunteers who are only fluent in English to find out whether what is linked to is actually spam and thus to take action. Thus the complaint may wait until a volunteer fluent in that language can take action.
- Spidra Webster
There are a number of other things that are violations of Friendfeed's Terms of Service that don't qualify as spam. The volunteer spam-killing team is not empowered to get rid of those accounts or sanction those users. Only Friendfeed/Facebook staff can. But since Friendfeed was bought by Facebook, they haven't really been active here and that responsive to the site's needs so it's...
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- Spidra Webster
Because Friendfeed/Facebook staff are not often here or able to respond to TOS complaints that are not spam, I would recommend using FF's tools for blocking a user from your feed. You are in control of what you see here. If seeing someone being an insensitive or threatening jerk is upsetting you and there's no FF/FB staff here to take care of it, the best solution in the meantime would be to block that user.
- Spidra Webster
The spammer makes IDs with names insulting someone that the regime killed. He is using that ID to spam around. There is a difference between insulting someone and using their name with insult as a user name. To make it clear his user name is something like "fuck ......." and he spams with this user name.
- سيما كيا Sima kia
"In accessing the Site and Services or following links to third-party websites you may be exposed to content that you consider offensive or inappropriate. You agree that your only recourse is to stop using the Site and Services."
- Tinfoil 2.0
I believe one of the reason for these recent cyber attack is because A parliamentary election will be held in Iran on 2 March 2012 to elect new members of Islamic Consultative Assembly, Majlis. The week-long registration of candidates began December 24 and is handled by the Interior Ministry and candidates are vetted by the Guardian Council. The election is expected to be a contest...
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- مرگ بر خامنه ای ☮ درویش
Since 3 weekes ago, we did discover that some of the fake users try to report some of our active users to “FriendFeed Spam Report” and also spam your page too. Spammers tried this Technique before with creating fake account with other people user-names and avatars to creating a chaos which eventually cause to slow down and maybe stop active users from Separating the News and necessary...
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- مرگ بر خامنه ای ☮ درویش
On behalf of all Activists of the Iranian Resistance and Iranian Freedom Fighters, I would like to apologize to all of you Me and my fellow Iranians offer our most sincere appreciation and gratitude for your endless effort and support in our struggle towards democracy........ as you know In 2009, in the aftermath of an election that saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad controversially returned to...
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- مرگ بر خامنه ای ☮ درویش
Thank you for the explanation. Personally, I'm supportive of people anywhere who want more freedom, and I'm happy that Friendfeed provides a forum where those kinds of discussions can happen without censorship. I'd just like to see this room used for what it was designed for: identifying spammers: accounts that are repeatedly posting unrelated items into rooms/groups. Anyone is free to...
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- Tinfoil 2.0