Developer blog - Playfire

Now you can report inappropriate forum posts!

Posted 1 year ago by Rebon - Comments (144)

Hi Guys,

Another mini update for you while we work on bigger things behind the scenes. This time it's a Report Forum Post feature!

Ever come across an inappropriate forum post that a mod needed to see? Well, now you can report the post and provide a reason why why you've flagged it. Playfire staff and moderators also now have a control panel where they can see the reported posts and deal with them. If multiple people report the same post that's OK, as it'll just show them all grouped together.

What we're hoping is that if someone writes a flamebait or spammy post, people will now just report it instead of posting in the thread and making it worse. Now you can just report it and move on.

Also, we added another anti-spammer feature too: we've created the ability for moderators to lock threads that get out of hand, too. Just another two methods we've introduced recently for combating spammer scum!

In other news we've also created a Playfire fan page on Facebook -- go over and join it now! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Playfirecom/51264979161 And if you use Twitter, then follow thew new Playfire account there too: @playfire

That's it for now. More soon. Enjoy!

- Kieran & the Playfire team

seb Awesome. This should come in handy for us staffers 8-). 1 year ago
sumario Hey i posted in that thread :P 1 year ago
Daryl i like the locking idea, and I joined ya's on facebook! 1 year ago
sravan953 This is a great new feature by which we can filter out all the explicit comments on forum threads. Just hoping that the prcedure isn't lengthy 1 year ago
MatthewSFC xD 1 year ago
MatthewSFC I posted in that thread.
Joined facebook group xD 1 year ago
M2VASH nice!! just locked a thread as a test! can we have sticky threads too please! :D and then for the bans! yeh! nice progress guys 1 year ago
Archaenon Yay...and more Yay. 1 year ago
DavidMacDougall Just the thing i needed 1 year ago
night_walker nice update 1 year ago
JackalThePro great improvement :D Ive been here for month or two and i must say its been pleasure. keep the good work up and wish ya good time there :D 1 year ago
KingStevo69 no ur an idiot rebon u idiot haha just joking man nice update :p 1 year ago
lamby This is awesome, someone should take the developer responsible for those features out for lunch sometime! 1 year ago
KiLLmoVes a step in the right direction 1 year ago
XX_Danny_XX thx 1 year ago
erpeito ok 1 year ago
xESxIron57Man Sounds good 1 year ago
c0smicdreamer Thats good to hear:D, i just hope people dont go over board with reporting others.. 1 year ago
c0smicdreamer Thats good to hear:D, i just hope people dont go over board reporting others.. 1 year ago
Xero Rebon called me an idiot and told me to shut up, banz pl0x. <3 1 year ago
BigRon3400 SWEET! Nice job playfire! 1 year ago
Kluv sounds great, now we won't be so polluted by spam! you guys are doing a truly amaazing job. 1 year ago
daykilla i don´t understand you^^ 1 year ago
direkt57 cool 1 year ago
AleXAngel Awesome. Thanks! :D 1 year ago
thenighter great..this will make a safe community communications here in playfire..but my question is..while reporting a spammer the playfire team will take actions in a fast time..or this spammer will be roaming around for sometime tile u take action? 1 year ago
TombRaider95 Very good, thanks for the update.
The forum will be more "clean". ;D 1 year ago
dotCody Finally! 1 year ago
Mercenary Awesome! Nice update guys! 1 year ago
dutts i guess its ok 1 year ago
ADay000 oh boy...I could see tis getting out of hand.. 1 year ago
ADay000 The only problem I see is that different people have different ideas of "spam" posts 1 year ago
kIDe123 That is cooool:P 1 year ago
consolecrusader I think this is a great idea especially for those abusing post like I have seen since I have arrived at the forums. 1 year ago
BattleBaz Brilliant. I for one have had to reply back to moronic posts before, but now I don't have to thanks to this. Good job! =) 1 year ago
Doddsy Glad to see you considered the Facebook page :D 1 year ago
Detox rofl @ the example used ahahaha...and aww, I can't flame on the 360 anymore? but I LOVE being a sony fanboy and making fun of the many cons of the 360 all day 1 year ago
tmmthorndike Sounds great Thanks 1 year ago
NemesisUS Great job. 1 year ago
Head4k nice idea 1 year ago
Prozak87 Thanks guys! This will be very helpful. 1 year ago
fire229 Wow, well done, nice idea!!!
Im sure this new reporting system will work and help stop them people who ruin our forums :p 1 year ago
thecrazygeezer awesome hopfully from now on the threads will be used as they shoud and not just to start a huge riot 1 year ago
Fobeus This is very good. I've come across some inappropriate posts. Good to see we can keep Playfire clean. Now...where were they again ;). 1 year ago
Kyle Yay! A control panel I have no idea how to use!
=) 1 year ago
Guitarrasdeamor ur an idiot shut up u idiot
Lol.
Awesome stuff!! 1 year ago
Marcakis87 yay! 1 year ago
Wizziokid much needed thanks :) 1 year ago
xPandax nice update 1 year ago
lucky45web Thank you so much & please keep up the good work!!:D 1 year ago
berlinORbust45 very good addition but it might be taken advantage of though. but still a good improvement 1 year ago
q80_rules nice feature 1 year ago
Pooky_187 good feature :) 1 year ago
Hodgi92 LOL. That picture is hilarious 1 year ago
Madex Nice finally some justice to those rude guys 1 year ago
Anubis_GNR cool 1 year ago
Broken_toaster cool 1 year ago
DarthRevan182 cool :) 1 year ago
TsengVII Sweet 1 year ago
TruSolja Awesome job. This feature was much needed. Should help out the moderators and Admins incredibly! Also, less time scouting each post/reply and finding all of the problems first hand, now we can all help Playfire become a better place. Awesome update. 1 year ago
cranio3954 Excellent!!! I found so maycomments like that, thanks for that new update!! 1 year ago
Danny_r Nice 1 year ago
EiVoL kick that guy 1 year ago
EiVoL kick that guy from the photo 1 year ago
the_g_reaper lol i think its a good. idea. ill admit that ive done my fair bit of spamming. not so much on here but yea.
lol im just an angry man
anyway its a good way to shut people up really when it gets out of hand. i dont mind a bit of banter but yea people take it too far sometimes. especially when they sink so low as to things that are completely unethical. racism for 1.
what i want to know is if your going to actually ban people that are constantly getting reported or if your just closing down the thread 1 year ago
thatGuyinTheTVR nice example post. 1 year ago
killerxxx101 I think its a very good idea! 1 year ago
Little_Miss_BR Keep up the great work everyone! =) 1 year ago
ABEL623 i think thi is a good idea good job with it. 1 year ago
cookie_monster48 This is great, as often times my 9 year old son will read blogs with me. Keep up the great work. 1 year ago
Katmassive hehe PF is gonna be sane 1 year ago
conb319 honestly, this is probably the worst idea ever. i belong to yahoo answers, and they put a reporting system in last year and it's probably the worst thing ever. don't ask me, just ask anyone who's on there. 1 year ago
solo013 The report feature will come in handy I'm sure. Maybe people will watch their post content a little more now. 1 year ago
djsifer Sounds good. I enjoy this site. 1 year ago
XxsuperElias85xX That's perfect because many people say stuff and get away with it. Thank you Rebon for the update. 1 year ago
magewarrior182 good stuff guys! glad to see yall still have us little ppl in mind ;) 1 year ago
loookatme123 cool8-) 1 year ago
PicLD Sweet. Thanks, Man 1 year ago
Arminas1781 Pretty cool, keep up the good work. 1 year ago
renokieon Fanally, took long enough! 1 year ago
ADay000 I kinda feel bad...you guys are gonna have a lot of thing os your hands:p 1 year ago
DhanZ hmm..
no commet 1 year ago
NJLurch87 cool 1 year ago
Buttonman Sounds good mate...will help people not get drawn into it as we are all capable of being....(myself included)....If I have any further trouble from Guitar I'll try this out first....
Cheers,
Buttonman 1 year ago
scobra77 gr8 stuff, fight the spam! 1 year ago
random_turnip Its about time too, people were getting away with too much before. 1 year ago
bombergino I think you guys are doing a good job and this place will only get better,keep up the good work 1 year ago
solidsneak ok i like that but i already got account there in (facebook.com) so add me there my name there is (Ali A Al Ghamdi) ok see u there and dont forget i am intrested about news that always come in top about games and movies so i wish we became frinds
............................................>>>> help ppl u will get ppl love<<<<......................... 1 year ago
IceBoy Can be useful. =) 1 year ago
egzee great news and a excelent idea 1 year ago
ryano thank you 4 ever kieran & the playfire team 1 year ago
thaKIDmumbles ur an idiot shut up u idiot
lmao that was funny. *claps for updates* 1 year ago
spielmacher1991 Nice jop guys xD! 1 year ago
dragonsxshadow thats good to know but shame something can't be done about the card bug i've been geting and im sure a lot of people have been geting as well 1 year ago
Lucario Good! 1 year ago
Ramirez sounds good, but i hope this doesn't meant we can't have a bit of healthy competition or say anything slightly out of order. 0_o (looks left) o_0 (looks right).....boobs!:p 1 year ago
VenusDoom13 Excellent!!!!! Finally a way to report the freaks. Thanks PlayFire!!!!! 1 year ago
Gulzt I'm facing problems using this feature. A window does open up, but I can't type in it, nor send it :S 1 year ago
female72 Hi....
Excellent opportunity... Have met alot of unpleasant ppl. comming into my games, with the purpose of spoiling it.....Can such people be tracked??? 1 year ago
cantbearsed great job 1 year ago
Chiffmonkey Prepare to be flooded :p 1 year ago
RuxR7 Hooray to the anti-spam feature!!! 1 year ago
Pain_Lord Nice. I'll personally report any innapropriate posts. Keep it coming playfire staff 1 year ago
Morganator This is good. I'm just hoping that the posting quality in the forums will go up as well. I have to admit, there are some pretty poorly written posts out there minus the "Backwards Thread" thread. 1 year ago
the_phar6oh GREAT feature. Keep all the fanboys out. Pure gamers ftw! 1 year ago
darkangel269 very cool, i am sick of the spam and this will help 1 year ago
luccas007 thats cool 1 year ago
ANIMAZE24 nice its about time the bunp threads get anoying 1 year ago
Yodude555 lol 1 year ago
killquick okay thanks for the information about the new report link will use it if I need to. 1 year ago
davvo9643 think its a gud idea we should b all friends on this fine site so hopefully wont have 2 report any1 m8. 1 year ago
PageI54 like it 1 year ago
Kitty2NV ooh i better watch my mouth now ^_^ lol jk:) 1 year ago
Jay_Cash cool? 1 year ago
se1987 GR8 Thanks a lot 1 year ago
CT_CapBar I think its a must...
Well done guys...
;) 1 year ago
LordKazuyaPL GOOD JOB 1 year ago
psboy That is good! 1 year ago
GTAfreaknr1 Well, I think it's quite helpful! A new thing to PF doesn't hurt anyone. 1 year ago
outlaw_renegado Great way, very good to keep things under control. Very nice ideia. Keep up the good work, this webpage has great potential in growing. 1 year ago
Ranguy20089 about time something was done to stop da wicked mouths of some people.But as an extreme game player dont you think its up to the owners of a playstation3 to be more careful who they let onit in the first place..Come on for cryin out loud..These games have an 18certificate.doesn'that saysomething. 1 year ago
fares i think this will deff. work with fanboyism wars going on :P 1 year ago
sickboy_1 Maybe you could auto-lock threads that exceed, say, 50 pages? 1 year ago
levone k 1 year ago
tch2296 Great idea. You guys are doing a great job, the community is evolving and getting better and better every day. Keep up the good work guys. No more flame wars 1 year ago
mcgrory1991 ...good...now get automatic syncing with PSN... 1 year ago
talonkard044 Spicy!
:D
In other words, good stuff!
Keep the badass updates coming to Playfire guys and gals! 1 year ago
YakuzaGirl mkay how do I report someone who's spamming my wall? >_< 1 year ago
RONYMAX12 nice :D 1 year ago
Nabeel_E Cool :) 1 year ago
vhorizon I think it is a great idea. I'll keep it in mind. 1 year ago
Callum12345 good as bro 1 year ago
Callum12345 ohhhhh yea thats wat iam talking about btchs 1 year ago
YourUncleBob Thank you for incorporating this feature. I joined the site mere hours ago, and it's already proved useful. 1 year ago
Saenz420 Too many people are all talk. they get poned. 1 year ago
mikear50 I think everyone is doing there best to try and make improvements where possible. I also know you've done alot to combat the cheats and liars on the trophy post, but there still isn't a link. Keep up the great work and I look forward to future improvments. 1 year ago
AmericanProwler thats cool 1 year ago
Anas what can i say ....!!!
ur Go0o0oo0o0o0oD ur so Go0o0o0o0o0oD 1 year ago
TroyjanMan cool 1 year ago
Seyfertt Very good :D 1 year ago
Behemoko I know I'm a little late to the party, but.. About time! :p
Thanks. :-) 1 year ago
fr4zin4tor thank god just what we need on playfire 1 year ago
ShadowLaraCroft nice good job sony we own :D we can't wait to ses those in the future :D 1 year ago
gavin Welcome dev i hear all your news on psu !!;) 1 year ago
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