[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by pedigree

The code is already in 0.7 to submit spammers to the database as part of a ban/delete/cleanup function or in bulk via a user selection form but I will look at the inline hook. We have tried to shy away from the automatic submission as people always submit more innocent details this way, causing more people to come onto the forums and start +++++ing (seriously) and more work for us to then remove them (until you see the admin interface we have, youll understand why ) Rather than maybe an auotmatic submission, the mod would have to tick a box to confirm the submission...

I understand, but that depends on your forums and the experience of the forum mods.

That is why that automatic banning in "Delete Posts as Spam" function should be an AdminCP option. When our mods ban spammers, they ban "real spammers" and we trust our very experienced mods (we have over 22), very much. We need to provide tools for them that require less clicks, not more.

On the other hand, a simple tickbox might be OK, if it is in the process flow of the "Delete Posts as Spam" inlinemod.php function and elsewhere, and is simply an additional tick-box on a form that is being submitted in the mod process.

I can understand how you might not want this on "some boards" with "some mods", but our board gets over 4M PVs a month, we have 22+ mods around the world, so we try to make the mods (who are really experienced professionals) job very easy in appreciation for the work they do.

Thanks for the update, BTW. I look forward to the next release, including the whitelist function, since it is a bit easy to send malicious info to a community database and blacklist innocent people (an unintended side-effect of community based access controls).