Hello, here i come again with the same issue i experience in my community.
Some people spam the post with comment and then like their own comment to get points, knowing that each month the most active member gets rewarded. This is a big issue that needs to be solved. People liking their own comments or post should NOT give them points.
Amadou Fall Are you able to ban folks that violate your usage policy? ….just a suggestion…
Debo Ogunrinde that doesn't scale very well, unless you have a large enough community to promote moderators. seemed like a fair question to me.
You have a management and moderation problem. This has nothing to do with F.C.
D@vid I agree with the op, What's the point in liking your own post? This should be an easy fix for FC.
What do they get rewarded with? Have you contacted support with your suggestion?
David Scurlock 150usd for the monthly top 1 😅
Amadou Fall sure, I can see why members would create a non sense post then like it, after all, $50 is up for grabs each month. People will easily ignore the rules if they know money is on the table.
You can write your own code to check for self likes here:
add_action('fluent_community/user_level_upgraded', function($xprofile, $newLevel, $oldLevel) {
// Perform actions when a user levels up
// $userId = $xprofile->user_id;
}, 10, 3);Here's the schema to help:
https://github.com/WPManageNinja/fluent-community-docs/blob/master/database-schema.md
Wendy Shoef could be useful for coders, however, I suspect most people that use plugins are consumers. I guess the op could hire a freelancer to make the change if he/she wanted to spend $100-$200.
David Scurlock i can pay 100$ for a fix of this issue
Amadou Fall I am not a coder, however, I suggest you create a project on upwork. I have used them quite a bit over the years and I suspect you will get a number of bidders. Before you proceed, you should ask how future fc upgrades will interfere with your fix, if at all.
It would be awesome if we could mark posts as a solution and only those posts/likes would be considered for a bonus - it would be nice to have such a feature nativly implemented so everyone can follow that logic.
Please find similar challange on n8n so maybe there is something we all can learn and improve:
https://community.n8n.io/t/we-need-your-help-answer-earn/80361
we created the Answer & Earn program to make sure questions are answered as quickly and as thouroughly as possible. The financial reward introduced some risk for abuse - we saw some exampes of people using AI to generate (often incorrect) answers, or posting replies just to gather points. I’m simplifying the scoring and
From this month on, points are only awarded when:
- Your reply is selected as the ‘solution’ by the OP.
- Your reply receives a ‘like’.
Of course, a solution gives more points than a like.
I’m also adding two new rules:
- Do not use AI to generate or format your answers (we can’t tell the difference, so both are disallowed).
- Only join a conversation if you have something substantial to contribute - like a genuine attempt to solve the issue, or asking for clarification when essential information is missing.
- No ‘solution sniping’ - related to the point above, don’t repeat solutions or add minimal information to try and get the solution in your name.
- Play fair. This is subjective, but you know when you’re not 😉
If you see anyone repeatedly breaking the rules or otherwise trying to game the system, please flag the reply, mark it as ‘other’ and add a note for the team to review. We’ll issue one warning if you break the rules, and exclude you from the leaderboard after that. (Of course flagging can be abused too - I suggest you don’t try that 🤣
i found a solution thanks to Ross FCA now that issue is memories haha
Amadou Fall what's the solution?
Been tinkering around with this and potentially found a solution with a php code snippet. I've only done minor testing and right now it only takes affect on new posts and comments. I need to test it further to make sure it's working properly before I share.
Jeff Brigman i paid a dev to make me a custom plugin that will prevent people form liking their own post and comment
Amadou Fall don’t suppose you would share it? 😁
Either way I think I’ve got it sorted out but would be interested in see the code they used vs mine. I’m sure they probably did a better job than I did.