When I said noob, I mean, the people who don't know how to search - and find topics that have already been posted on the subject that they're looking for. But, one thing that I was interesting in, will there ever been anything done to help clean this community up of all the fluff posts? or, is our best option just to report all duplicated content topics and hope that the mods lock them? Or, what do you think can be done members? Do you think the with growth, you can't stop noobs, but then again, you can stop them for posting the same crap, right? What's your feedback on this subject? Do you think DP's community is raised with n00bs who try to boast their post count in order to get links on their signature?
The number of noobs (excluding the 'normal' members here) outweighs the number of moderators. I reckon it is high time that new Mods should be appointed. Yeah right, so we have a list of 'em but how many of them actually goes online to clean the forums up on a daily basis? 3 - 5 average?
Fwiw, the fluff may come from new IDs, but it isn't noobs and the redundant threads arent due to an inability to use search, they just want to be the first post in the thread despite the three others visible on the same topic. It's a problem on any large forum that is indexed quickly, and the source is serial spammers with boatloads of dup accounts who sell their "linkbuilding" service then use spammy software to enable spammier posts. As the technology to ID them faster adapts they'll decrease in visibility... and hopefully have to go get real jobs instead of creating useless posts and fake profiles for a living. If forums would just eliminate a few choice countries from whence the vast majority of this drivel emanates (most of which have more IDs in here than the total occupancy of the third-world craphole from which they post)... the relevancy of comments in web forums would exponentially increase, though the apparent membership would dramatically decrease along with the number of scammers and babbling idiots who parrot useless advice in multiple threads then agree with themselves with their other IDs. Bluntly put, these guys are lying SOBs who in the real world wouldn't be trusted to make coffee. If they own a dog he'd be of more value to a forum than they are. If anyone here lives in one of the handful of countries where almost ALL this garbage comes from, you'd be doing the world (and your own country's reputation) a public service by smothering these multiple ID spam-twits with their own pillow. Frankly, nobody is going to miss some twit that proclaims himself an SEO god in one thread and asks you to buy his worthless ebook on how to become a millionaire, while starting another thread to ask the best method of getting their site indexed and one more to beg someone to loan them $20 that they'll gladly repay Tuesday (which kinda makes you wonder about their sincerity when even the location in their profile is a lie by a few thousand miles). They're drooling idiots who work so hard at not doing honest work they shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard. I know... gotta get outta my shell and quit being so subtle. When they get smarter I'll get nicer.
I'm reporting a lot of threads since I mostly read threads using the 'new posts' feature. What I found is that most of these reports get removed within a few minutes and I'm sure (I think everybody knows that by now) that these n00bs get infractions from moderators. We get infractions for small things from time to time, so I'm sure that a reported post leads to infractions. What I'm saying is that there can't be done that much, reporting the posts is currently the best solution for this (in my opinion). About a new staff team, being a moderator is still a free job you're doing and that's why we can't expect moderators to moderator the forum 24/24. Compared to DMOZ the DP staff is actually super-active! I think that Shawn takes new moderators from time to time and removes them when necessary though.