Spammers Targeting eBay India's Community Forum

[spl_ind]

Many of us has noticed that some users of eBay India are now using the Community Forum to post unsolicited, unrelated & even repeat messages so called Spam.

Therefore, it has now become very important that we get a "Report" button besides every postings, so that we can report it and request eBay to remove the post or move it to another more appropriate category.

What about you, Guys? Please share your views with us.

[bollywooddiva]

i agree with you

[rajelectroniks]

ebay should start locking the old posts so that no more replies can be posted to old posts.
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Raj Electroniks.

[bhushan.mehta]

i agree with mr.raj...3 months is a good enough time; if its good for paisapay, it is good for the forums.

i am not so sure about the Report button though - it starts what is known as 'Report-spam' whereby the moderator is overloaded by so many reported posts that it is difficult for him/her to manage - not that the moderators here are very active anyway!!

to counter this, forum-sites introduce what is known as Rep - if you report too many posts falsely, then your Rep goes down...too low and you are not allowed to post...but that would be too much trouble for too less. -- Signature: I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

[spl_ind]

eBay user "gora_web" is spamming all over the Community Forums to promote a website. I request eBay to do something about this.

[linusstudios]

EBay is a great site on many criteria but one place where it seriously legs behind is the community and the discussion boards, ...

There should be active moderators, or users to whom some power is provided to clean up the mess. There can also be some special titles/Scores on the basis of the relevant posts by a user. And all posts should be rated which would affect the score of the user posting those.

Dead Post take away the attention which a new post should get. Moderators should lock them on their own.

[spl_ind]

eBay user "itworldindia" is spamming in the Community Forums to promote a website. I request eBay to do something about this.

[bhushan.mehta]

the problem with eBay forums, apart from the obvious lack of moderators, is that all the discussions, queries, general comments, feedback, etc. is all crammed in one space. not to mention that the 'Help from other users' section is not accessible at all. one can only accidentally come across it.

eBay international has a separate Answer Center which is in turn segregated into various sub-sections wherein users can ask questions and doubts about anything eBay to the fellow users. also, one gets to rate the answers provided by the users. which does justice to both the question and the answerer.

discussion forums and feedback forums are separate from the answer center and there is a chat room for casual discussions.

even if ebay India implements a skeleton of this, it will be many times useful to the users. of course, moderators will still be required. -- Signature: I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

[spl_ind]

A Big THANKYOU to eBay India for adding the REPORT option.

[richiozard2011]

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