A plea regarding spam messages

Status
Not open for further replies.
daftscotslass

daftscotslass

Senior Guinea Pig
Joined
Oct 20, 2006
Messages
4,872
Reaction score
17
Points
0
Location
Stirlingshire, Scotland
We'd just like to thank everyone for their reports and helping us keep on top of spammers. We're working on the best way to combat this and are exploring a number of different options to both prevent the problem without making signing up for the forum too off-putting.

We would appreciate it if members could not post messages on spam threads or after spam messages saying "reported" as these have to be deleted along with the spam messages and they don't make any difference to the number of people reporting the messages. Some people are also quoting spammed links which, for us, is twice the work in an already overly busy time.

Thanks for everyone's understanding, believe me we know how irritating it is and we appreciate everyone's help.
 
Thanks Lindsay. I was just worried that you would be getting millions of reports if we all hit the triangle thinking no one else has done it, but I can understand about you having to delete the reported message too. x
 
Whoops I'm also guilty of writing 'reported' sorry,thank you for the message above :)
 
AudioHeart said:
Whoops I'm also guilty of writing 'reported' sorry,thank you for the message above :)
Click to expand...
Me too - many apologies. I just thought I would be stopping others reporting it too. It must be a real nightmare for you just now, as there are so many spammers.
 
I'm sorry too :red i thought thats what we had previously been told to do, i must have read it wrong, hope you get the suckers sorted :))
 
doglovinpiggylover said:
I'm sorry too :red i thought thats what we had previously been told to do, i must have read it wrong, hope you get the suckers sorted :))
Click to expand...

Sorry that might have been me, I thought if one person just wrote reported it would save the mods getting loads of reports (triangles) as we wouldn't know if anyone had reported it. :red xx
 
I think everyone had the best intentions, it's just impossible to know how best to deal with this problem - don't envy the mods.
 
Bump - please do not reply or quote spam messages. They will disappear if you don't reply and let them drop off the bottom of the page (they will be removed by the mods soon).

Suzy x
 
Just bumping this up as it would appear there have been a few spam posts and members are responding to them making the job of the admins/mods twice as hard when it comes to removing the posts - not only do they have to remove the spam post, but they all have to remove all those posts that have replied to it!:(:(

Just hit the report button and move on - replying to spam posts bumps them to the top of the page and gives them the exposure they want!!
 
I just bumped the other post about not replying to spam too! Great minds think alike!
 
Bumping this up again as there seems to be a lot of spammers visiting of late mallethead

Please, Please, Please just use the report function - DO NOT reply to the posts this makes the admin/mod job much harder and also gives the spammers the exposure they want as their posts are being bumped to the top of the pages every time you reply!
 
first_time_piggie_mum said:
I did both lol!:(|)
Click to expand...

Well at least now you know not to do that in future :))

The whole purpose of the spammers is to get as many people viewing their posts as possible (with a few people not realising and actually clicking on their links - god knows what viruses/pornographic webpages lurk behind those links) - bumping it up by replying gives them this.

Lets keep our younger viewers safe and not give the posts the exposure that could lead to one of those links being clicked on!
 
What is with the Spam at the moment? - My god its driving me mad!

So BIG BUMP!
 
Please do NOT respond to spam messages. Just press the warning triangle on the left and a mod will delete the spam.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top