Any webdev gurus interested in making an automod for the 3D Printing community? I just had to go through 98 different porno spam posts, and I’m having a difficult time keeping it all out of here.
I don’t know what kind of responses are needed to be posted back and forth between the non-existent G+ API – but it’s getting enough now that a simple auto-ban of posts which contain certain parameters would handle a lot of it.
If you’re a regular poster here, I’ll give mod permissions so you can muck about with it. I can even leave some stuff in the mod queue.
Well, thanks that you keep reporting them!
There really are a lot of spam posts recently (some of them quite nasty), i’ve counted once and ended up at about 60 deleted per day.
@ThantiK I glanced the G+ API and like you said, there isn’t much. There is however a way to retrieve posts and information on the poster ID (see Activities/List Method). I don’t see a way to retrieve a list from a specific group, only collections related to the user itself.
We may be able to do a “screen scrape” and parse out the page for the 3D Printing Group every few minutes or so and then use individual post information to run the Mod algorithm against. The problem is the rules to enforce it, it would have to be an engine that allows for different types of rules to be added/removed/edited.
Keep the reporting going. Their aggregated stats will help Google identify and fix these issues. @ThantiK , maybe you know a Google+ engineer in your Google+ network that can let you know if they are working on this issue.
@Alex_Lee , I was kind of hoping on using the community notifications option to be pushed a notification flag for a newly posted object. Then go from there…
@ThantiK I just found this http://gplusnotifier.com/en-GB/, seems like we can start from this, that being the case, having MOD rights may be required. I’d be willing to give a try, since there’s code to start with, the challenge again, would be implementing the rules for the automod
Yeah, it’s been getting pretty rough lately with some of those posts. I used to drop in on the forum from time to time throughout the day, and lesson learned…don’t do this while at a customer while taking a breather cause you never know what’ll be front and center.
@ThantiK After doing a bit of research, it doesn’t seem like there’s a good way of doing this, even the code that I had found doesn’t quite seem to work as is and it’s really “hacky”. I’ll keep looking on my own to see if there’s a different approach that can be taken w/o having a proper API available.
I created a sandbox group for myself to test Moderator features, you can revoke my Mod rights. Anyone can just create a private Group and use that for development, I’d suggest doing that instead of running any code against the 3D Prinint group.
@Ruwan_Janapriya yes - there is no actual API to post/manage or do anything other than read. So you MITM your browser, see what the javascript DOES post from your end, and replicate it.