Changes to eBay Community

[loveyourimagination49]

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Community-Platform-Feedback/Private-groups-access/td-p/29518394/jump-t...

This thread will probably get moved over to the CFB., but just thought I would give a heads up. The community boards look like they are going to be getting another change over?

The link is from the community feedback board, but Doug chimed in and looks like something is coming.

Community and Spring update. Can’t wait! 🙄

[pburn]

I read his comments, posted in response to a question about private groups, as referring to enhancements to "groups," not the wider community.

" . . . improving groups functionality within the next few months . . . and looking into improving the groups experience, and navigation."

[loveyourimagination49]

Lithium will be improving groups functionality within the next few months, and at that time we'll be looking into launching that function in the Community and looking into improving the groups experience, and navigation.
^^^
Some of the now groups were part of the regular discussion boards. They got sent to the group basement. They may be completely deleted. Don’t know.
So I’m just giving a FYI to people that want to bookmark the boards/discussion/threads etc.

[doug@ebay]

Hi @loveyourimagination49 we are not looking at a major re-design. Lithium is enhancing groups so those will likely be updated in a few months.

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@loveyourimagination49 wrote:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Community-Platform-Feedback/Private-groups-access/td-p/29518394/jump-t...

This thread will probably get moved over to the CFB., but just thought I would give a heads up. The community boards look like they are going to be getting another change over?

The link is from the community feedback board, but Doug chimed in and looks like something is coming.

Community and Spring update. Can’t wait! 🙄

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[loveyourimagination49]

😂. Well that didn’t take long!
Now if you would only be quicker on getting spam removed from the boards. That would be great!

[doug@ebay]

We've looked into this and the spam filters do catch quite a bit, but the spammers are clever. So if you see spam, please mark it as spam and it really helps us. eBay is a highly trafficked site, and the eBay Community forum is highly trafficked as well, so very attractive to spammers.

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@loveyourimagination49 wrote:
😂. Well that didn’t take long!
Now if you would only be quicker on getting spam removed from the boards. That would be great!

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[loveyourimagination49]

Will you all give a heads up to people that are in groups that they may vanish? I know a lot of the groups have not been used in years. We asked a last year or a couple years ago for them to be deleted. Nothing happened 

[loveyourimagination49]

Volunteers have been reporting them. I don’t know if they do or not anymore. I stopped. Give us all a nickel for each reported. 😂

[doug@ebay]

@loveyourimagination49, within the the last few months many inactive groups were archived.

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@loveyourimagination49 wrote:

Will you all give a heads up to people that are in groups that they may vanish? I know a lot of the groups have not been used in years. We asked a last year or a couple years ago for them to be deleted. Nothing happened 

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[loveyourimagination49]

Will you be merging boards and/or groups?

[a_c_green]

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doug@ebay wrote:

We've looked into this and the spam filters do catch quite a bit, but the spammers are clever. So if you see spam, please mark it as spam and it really helps us. eBay is a highly trafficked site, and the eBay Community forum is highly trafficked as well, so very attractive to spammers.

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@loveyourimagination49 wrote:
😂. Well that didn’t take long!
Now if you would only be quicker on getting spam removed from the boards. That would be great!

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doug@ebay, the main problem seems to be that Lithium doesn't have anyone working third-shift, in the middle of the night, and the spammers have figured that out. Thus you'll see a spam ad first appearing at, say, 1:30 a.m. Pacific time, and even if it's reported at 4:00 a.m. or so, when the East Coast and Central time zones are starting to wake up, it can sit for hours more before finally disappearing. 

We're talking about bleeding-obvious spam ads, too, such as the ones that put their scam site URL right in the Subject line of the posting. I mean, these shouldn't even need to be reported; they just need a moderator to be actually logged in and looking at it, and then they can act on it immediately. 

What Lithium could do is actually let long-time eBay members with established track records act as front-line moderators. Other sites do this on their forums as standard practice; I am a moderator myself on one such forum elsewhere. I don't get paid for it, but I do interact with the members there, and we can maintain a very spam-free environment as well.

[pburn]

Spam is probably the least offensive of the inappropriate threads on the discussion boards. Thread titles that name sellers or buyers are worse, for done example. IMO, spam threads can wait to be deleted until a staff member punches in and has their first cup of coffee. The spam threads are really pretty harmless, in the great discussion-board scheme of things.

I would far prefer any moderation be done by paid staff than other community members.

[*coins]

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@pburn wrote:
Spam is probably the least offensive of the inappropriate threads on the discussion boards. Thread titles that name sellers or buyers are worse, for done example. IMO, spam threads can wait to be deleted until a staff member punches in and has their first cup of coffee. The spam threads are really pretty harmless, in the great discussion-board scheme of things.

I would far prefer any moderation be done by paid staff than other community members.

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I don't know who in their right mind would click some of the links in those posts... 😉

[*coins]

I'm excited to see what happens. Hoping that some of the groups will get more people. It seems like some have lots of posters and then there are others with barely any.

[a_c_green]

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@pburn wrote:
I would far prefer any moderation be done by paid staff than other community members.

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I don't know who in their right mind would click some of the links in those posts... 😉

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The spammers are looking to find dimwits, frankly. They're not interested in people with common sense who wouldn't click those links with a barge pole. They're looking for people like a dear relative of mine who clicks on every durn fool thing that comes along, and consequently has such a virus-infested computer that I think it spends more time at the shop than it does at home.