These were activities from February 11th and each of the two postings were clearly spam on that day. Glancing at the profile, it does not appear that any prior posts existed for the account that would have allowed for unmoderated posting. Is there another interface to investigage the posting history beyond what's available from the users profile page? I cannot imagine that either of the posts would pass initial moderation ...
Two prior postings from January 31st were also clearly spam and blocked. It doesn't appear that the user was banned after those initial posts, but only after the second round. However, the account still "exists":
As a guess, perhaps the system qualified the account after the first two postings on January 31st, even though they were blocked and removed, but the account itself retained a metric which did not reflect an adjustment to the posting count ... therefore on the subsequent two postings on February 11th, perhpas the system incorectly relied on the prior posting count as being greater than or equal to two, and allowed them through without requiring moderation?
Additionally, I consider it troubling that the subject lines of all four topics remain (apparently) discoverable and visible - in so far as they contain sufficient information to act as an advertisement or lure as is - despite the body of the postings being invisible. Or is that only because that link to the comments is visible to moderators and will fail for anyone else who does not have equivanent permissions to see those details?
Perhaps a more thorough expunging of the records and account is in order under these circumstances? I'm not certain what to suggest as it appears possible, and therefore likely, that new posts will again pass.
So the user commented outside the forum first? If they had two comments on resource pages, that could have triggered the spam filter to allow their forum postings in.
As for the title, that's a bug in the comment listing page which should replace the titles with a `[deleted by moderator]` text.
You can see it shows 4 Topics and 4 Comments. Those are one and the same with the aboive referenced forum postings (I'm presiming, since that is where it directs when you click on them).
Nice work reducing the title of the banned postings to the '[deleted by moderator]' text. That should help ... what's the opinion on removing the user account from the profile page link?
Moderators User lupita12, what happened
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The user lupita12 was recently banned and had their comments removed. That's not unusual.
But what is unusual is that they were able to post several comments before they were caught.
Was this a case of a user's account that had been hacked?
Or did we mistakenly vote to approve their first two messages?
We've seen fake messages crop up before, to pretend that they are legitimate.
These were activities from February 11th and each of the two postings were clearly spam on that day. Glancing at the profile, it does not appear that any prior posts existed for the account that would have allowed for unmoderated posting. Is there another interface to investigage the posting history beyond what's available from the users profile page? I cannot imagine that either of the posts would pass initial moderation ...
Two prior postings from January 31st were also clearly spam and blocked. It doesn't appear that the user was banned after those initial posts, but only after the second round. However, the account still "exists":
https://inkscape.org/~lupita12/comments/
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As a guess, perhaps the system qualified the account after the first two postings on January 31st, even though they were blocked and removed, but the account itself retained a metric which did not reflect an adjustment to the posting count ... therefore on the subsequent two postings on February 11th, perhpas the system incorectly relied on the prior posting count as being greater than or equal to two, and allowed them through without requiring moderation?
Additionally, I consider it troubling that the subject lines of all four topics remain (apparently) discoverable and visible - in so far as they contain sufficient information to act as an advertisement or lure as is - despite the body of the postings being invisible. Or is that only because that link to the comments is visible to moderators and will fail for anyone else who does not have equivanent permissions to see those details?
Perhaps a more thorough expunging of the records and account is in order under these circumstances? I'm not certain what to suggest as it appears possible, and therefore likely, that new posts will again pass.
So the user commented outside the forum first? If they had two comments on resource pages, that could have triggered the spam filter to allow their forum postings in.
As for the title, that's a bug in the comment listing page which should replace the titles with a `[deleted by moderator]` text.
I don't think so. Look at the profile page, here:Â https://inkscape.org/~lupita12/
You can see it shows 4 Topics and 4 Comments. Those are one and the same with the aboive referenced forum postings (I'm presiming, since that is where it directs when you click on them).
Nice work reducing the title of the banned postings to the '[deleted by moderator]' text. That should help ... what's the opinion on removing the user account from the profile page link?
Users can be moderated. but I also delete accounts as a super user.