Meldy! Meldy! Meldy!

<Tugs forelock before the supermoderator>

Did you delete the "watch some football match tonight" thread on Clubhouse earlier on? By Zhang Wee or some name like that?

Cos it weren't spam, it were a joke.

Tsk. You just can't get the staff these days.

This is the trouble, you can't judge a thread by the title.

No I didnt ... I saw it and left it

;-)

Here lies a potential problem which also happened in the USA, no one knows who deletes what and so when a mistake was made no-one owned up or knew who it was. I think that probably also contributed to going back to non user moderation.

Now if I wanted to watch some football where should I go?

if you set up a thread that looks similar to the 1000s of spam threads, and have a username like "Zhang Wee" that looks like the 1000s of spam accounts, then it deserves to be deleted.

and isn't a problem at all.

Stevie G . wrote (see)

if you set up a thread that looks similar to the 1000s of spam threads, and have a username like "Zhang Wee" that looks like the 1000s of spam accounts, then it deserves to be deleted.

and isn't a problem at all.

Yes LET'S make the forum humourless, that's a great idea!

Stevie G . wrote (see)

if you set up a thread that looks similar to the 1000s of spam threads, and have a username like "Zhang Wee" that looks like the 1000s of spam accounts, then it deserves to be deleted.

and isn't a problem at all.

I wouldn't say it deserves to be deleted. If I had seen it I would have known it wasn't spam because I recognise the username.  I doubt I would have found it very funny judging by that user's previous efforts but that's a matter of opinion.

I do think it's disingenuous to pick up on this as an example of why user mod spam-deletion powers shouldn't be granted, as if it points towards some fundamental problem of abuse of power.

Yep, guilt by profiling.  The Police used to do this with ethnicity.  That worked well for them.

Who Watches the Watchmen?  "Paranoid" rant etc ............

*keeps "told you so" card for anther day*

In fact Stevie, you may want to edit what you put. I'm sure you weren't saying "well, he sounds a bit foreign so deserves what he gets", but that's what it sounds like.

Ooooh, have we got user moderation now?

M..ouse wrote (see)

Gosh, what a drama....

Anyone would think that Zhang Wee (is that right?) started the spoof spam thread to deliberately stimulate this debate and that Zhang Wee is, in fact, the alter ego of an existing forumite.

Crikey.

tee hee, I love conspiracy theories and live streaming of footy....

Badly Drawn Bloke wrote (see)

In fact Stevie, you may want to edit what you put. I'm sure you weren't saying "well, he sounds a bit foreign so deserves what he gets", but that's what it sounds like.

That thought really didn't occur to me at all.  The way I read it, Stevie G was merely saying that someone posted something which looked exactly like the sort of spam we've been receiving recently, even down to the username.  It just happens that 99% of it is coming from China.

As stated above, I don't think such a post deserves to be deleted, but it might explain the mistake.  What I don't see is any connection with the average post written by any known user which people might find objectionable in some way, but could not be mistaken for spam - which is clearly not the domain of the spam-removal empowered user mods.

Well I've got a dick but erm.... No!

Muttley wrote (see)

<Tugs forelock before the supermoderator>

Did you delete the "watch some football match tonight" thread on Clubhouse earlier on? By Zhang Wee or some name like that?

 

 

No, that was me.

Muttley wrote (see)

 

 

Cos it weren't spam, it were a joke.

 

Thought as much, but by that time, it was too late.

Muttley wrote (see)

 

Tsk. You just can't get the staff these days.

You're probably right.

M...ouse, I think you want one of these...

I just like a thread with my name at the top