A Steepster Cleanup Initiative

A list of terms that should be automatically deleted if in the “places” place name:

resume
advertising/advertisement
recruitment
sex
sexologist
dental
roofer
roofing
construction
contractor
viagra
pharmaceutical
Auto center / auto sale
Dahbi girl
escort
hot girls/cute girls
law/law firm/associates
Delhi girl
call girl
Clinic
Lighting
repair
drug
pill
hire
injury or personal injury
law firm
research
any string of numbers greater than 4 digits
consultant
psychiatry/psychology
psychiatrist/psychologist
restoration
heating
hire

Unsure/maybe gets flagged for review?
specialists
travel
clinic
City Tour
tours
pizza
criminal
defense / defence
firm
moving
dance
services
assist
studio
services
keto diet / keto
window
roof
law

Exception to any of the above: if the place name includes the word tea or teas.

We could also flag for review anything with the words: girl or women/woman and probably catch most of the various call girl and escort services without having to delete so many varying terms. The problem is that I could see a shop being called “A Woman’s Tea” or “Steeper Girl” something if they sell PMS or herbal teas targeted towards women.

The one on here that, while I understand WHY it’s on here, might be worth a detailed review would probably be “specialists”. Doesn’t seem too far outside the realm of possibility for a company to be called like “Japan Tea Specialists” or “Black Tea Specialists” or something to that effect.

Good point. I’ll move them to the maybe column. I think it would be fairly easy to set up a filter to allow any of the above terms if the word tea shows up in the title.

This’ a really useful list. When I was working on tea I was definitely plugging in Delhi/women/escort/girl. As for ‘Places’, I basically just plugged in my hometown and worked my way outwards, because it somehow became infested with lawfirms and construction companies.

I figured just changing them all to ‘SPAM’ will make it easier for someone to just mass-delete anything using that title in one swoop. But renaming everything definitely takes… a while.

I had a similar issue where I couldn’t remove a space in front of the company name. In the end, I admit, I just gave up.

So… I tried, since I do have a moderator account.

I couldn’t get rid of the comma but out of curiosity I tried changing it to a completely DIFFERENT tea company and that did work (changed it back afterwards). So then I thought that maybe it’s just glitching so that the tea company has to already be in the system?

I went to try and create a new “test” tea using ‘Adagio Custom Blends, Beth McGee" as the company name to get it into the system and… I’m blocked from creating the tea entry if I use that company name. SO WEIRD.

Well, and I can still edit OTHER records into that format, like, the (literally hundreds >_> ) that are currently under “Adagio Tea”, “Custom-Adagio Blends”, “Custom-Adagio Teas”, “Custom – Adagio” and a slew of other things, I can still rename into the Adagio Custom Blends, Creator Name format (even if that creator has never been “named” in the system before). I just, specifically, can’t change THOSE TWO into Adagio Custom Blends, Beth McGee and it’s Driving. Me. Up. The. Wall.

Punctuation marks and special characters cause all sorts of havoc in coding. In this case, the reason it’s doing this (if I had to guess) is because the company name’s unique URL:

adagio-custom-blends-beth-mcgee

Steepster drops symbols, commas and periods when the URL is generated, so they’re just -‘s (extra spaces/punctuation are dropped so there’s no – -‘s). So unfortunately ’adagio-custom-blends-beth-mcgee’ is uniquely tied to ‘Adagio Custom Blends, Beth, McGee’ which was registered first. When you try to change it to ‘Adagio Custom Blends, Beth McGee’ it tries to register the url ‘adagio-custom-blends-beth-mcgee’ (using that same format), but then finds that that already exists, and is already tied to ‘Adagio Custom Blends, Beth, McGee’ so it defaults back to that.

The only way to FIX this is to go into the Company Profile > Edit Company. Unfortunately editing the Master Name is greyed out—and only allowed to, I believe, Companies given access to their own profiles (such as Butiki and Andrew & Dunhams, etc).

Maybe in the future that ‘right’ will be given to Moderators as well to help with cleaning. Until then, I think grouping together teas as best we can and then creating a ‘list’ of names that need to be otherwise ‘fixed’, as well.

Aah. Makes perfect sense to me! (I had to contact a plugin dev recently over a tilde that borked their script, heh). I wonder if that (at least in some part) has to do with some of the “duplicate entry” issues in the first place, and people just creating another entry “slightly different” to try to get around it.

I wouldn’t be surprised. But I think the duplicate entry problem could be largely solved if they put in one extra step in tea-creation:

When you go to start typing in the company name, it creates an autocomplete dropdown menu. At the moment, clicking on an entry in that menu is optional. But it should become mandatory, so that you’ll have to select “Don’t see your company on the list?” or something similar to specifically add a new company. I think largely people just start typing and hit enter, whether or not it’s close to the actual company name.

Deleting a user account does delete every thread, tea, tea company, note, and comment they have created. I don’t know if the coding is set up the same for users that create Places; all of the spam tea places I’ve found have been created by accounts too old for me to delete.

Hi teaddict – I think everyone in this thread agrees with the core of your comment.

Just a quick note that the title of the thread, “Steepster Cleanup Initiative” does not refer to the removal of valuable information – but to the merging of duplicate tea page entries (ex. There are two entries for 2017 Natural Redhead from White2Tea – same tea, but slightly different spelling in the name caused a dual entry for it) or removal of tea companies with typos in their names (ex. davidstea, DAVIDSTEA, David’s Tea). The whole point is to identify where issues like this exist so that the information can be preserved/accurate but the doubles/typo companies can be removed to free up space.

Hey AJ – there’s some update on this on the Steepster Migration thread. It’s super annoying, but appears to be temporary. The longest I’ve seen one stick for is four days at this point. I’m holding back reviews for a few DT blends because of this issue.

Not sure if compiling a list will be super helpful though; it doesn’t seem like the Adagio team is able to “expedite” the repair of these pages and since it’s only temporary the list would probably have to get edited really frequently.

I edited the ones that had broken images and didn’t run into any problems, so it seems to have been fixed.

Good to know. I’m still unable to open them right now, but that’s likely a cache problem.

Ya, the 404 Not Found is basically the “new” 503 or 504 or whatever we were getting before… the server being “overwhelmed” or “too slow” and throwing that back as an error because it is unable to display the tea page. I’ve had one stuck for nearly a week before I could access it… I think tea pages that have LOTS of reviews on them tend to cause it the worst, since that is more data and ergo cause the timeout worse…

In any event, the data isn’t actually “gone” so it is a more misleading error page than the 503/504 timeouts, since 404 not found seems to indicate a missing/deleted webpage. That isn’t the case, though.

Sounds reasonable. Also fits in with the fact that I’m likely coming at the site when it generally has a little less traffic.