News: Orkut calling all spam fighters.

It looks as if Orkut is really upset with all that "Orkut Virus" crap. Today, it formally introduced a new feature viz REPORT SPAM to control the growth of spams, though it was functioning since many days. Read more to know some key ideas of the new feature.

As quoted by Dharmesh Mokani, Software Engineer, Orkut


While communities provide a great medium for people to come together and share ideas through forums, polls and events, lots of communities can be the target of spam. Until now, if you were not the community owner or moderator, you couldn't remove the spam if you saw it. Well that has changed. Now you will be able to click "report spam" to specific topics or items in communities that are spammy, even if you are not the community moderator or owner. This will help us take down spam faster and take the pressure off the community owners and moderators. You can also report spam on specific scraps that you see in your own scrapbook.


Explaining the New Feature:

REPORTING SPAM

1. Click the report spam button located under the topic you'd like to report. The post will automatically be deleted from the forum and sent to the orkut team for investigation.
2. If you wish to report multiple topics as spam, you can do so by checking the box next to each topic and clicking the report spam button.

Anyone can use the report spam button to submit spam topics for orkut to investigate. Topics are only automatically deleted if an owner reports them.

We too feel that it's not worth spamming orkut. So, we urge you all to use our products, which can also be negatively used, productively. Don't spam and stay beautiful. You may also like to read Orkut's help on spam.