A plea regarding spam messages

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Bumping this up again.....


Please, Please, Please just use the report function - DO NOT reply to the spam 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!
 
I wonder why there's so much coming through recently. I do report them, but wonder if it makes more work for the Mods if they get, say, 23 reports of the same spam?
 
Sue G said:
I wonder why there's so much coming through recently. I do report them, but wonder if it makes more work for the Mods if they get, say, 23 reports of the same spam?
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If there are several posts of spam i usually look at the username - if they are all from the same user i just report the one post - the admins/mods will easily be able to see all posts made by the same user and will delete the lot :) so one report per username usually does the trick ;)
 
Sorry, I didn't explain myself properly. I do the same, only report the same username once, but if 25 of us report the same spam, I was wondering if that makes more work for the Mods, as we don't know if it's already been reported or not.
 
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oops sorry:red a new user to the forum-just spotted this thread, after replying to a spam on the rainbow bridge section-was so annoyed. didnt find the report this section bit. will report now though. sorry
 
GPTV said:
oops sorry:red a new user to the forum-just spotted this thread, after replying to a spam on the rainbow bridge section-was so annoyed. didnt find the report this section bit. will report now though. sorry
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That's OK. Don't worry :) You can report posts by clicking on the red triangle underneath the username
 
I just came online for the first time today - 124 new messages, and nearly all of them spam. I don't know what can be done about this, if anything, but it seems to be totally out of control now, and a new person joining who wants urgent information simply won't be able to find their way through it all.

Is there some kind of filtering device that can be put on? (I don't know much about computers)
 
malletheadmalletheadmallethead what has happened to the forum this morning?! I'm 5 pages in and have only seen 2 of our actual threads!

Lets try and keep this thread bumped up for now!
 
Sue G said:
I just came online for the first time today - 124 new messages, and nearly all of them spam. I don't know what can be done about this, if anything, but it seems to be totally out of control now, and a new person joining who wants urgent information simply won't be able to find their way through it all.

Is there some kind of filtering device that can be put on? (I don't know much about computers)
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The forum is being upgraded shortly so hopefully that will improve things. Barring individually authorising users, which we've already found doesn't work, we are doing the bet we can at the moment. We have the most up-to-date recaptcha for authorising new users but they are still getting round it.

It would really help if people could simply report the post rather than replying to and quoting spammers. These bots work on keywords and have a tendency to pick up on when users are noticing posts as well now.
 
Fingers crossed, I hope so. But if you look at who is online at any one time, you'll see there are simply loads of "members" who aren't real members. Strange names, people who have been able to become members who I suspect aren't real people, and I'm just waiting for them to start up.
 
Yay, hopefully is will stay this way. Sorry members have been giving you such a hard time over it.
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Sue G said:
Fingers crossed, I hope so. But if you look at who is online at any one time, you'll see there are simply loads of "members" who aren't real members. Strange names, people who have been able to become members who I suspect aren't real people, and I'm just waiting for them to start up.
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Unfortunately the members list shows everyone trying to access the forum. The spammers are banned, not deleted, hence why they're showing up on the members list still. Aside from the ones that have registered and haven't posted that we haven't found to ban yet, I'm hoping the few tweaks we did on Sunday at least mean the banned ones and any other automated registrations (they aren't real people, just bots) will be unable to post.

PS keep reporting any rogue posts you find
 
Thanks for explaining in more detail - it must be an absolute nightmare for you. Let's hope they'll soon find somewhere else to play their games - even if they are "only" bots.
 
This is a long confusing thread >.< But please keep up the good work it breaks my heart to see spam in rainbow bridge section ugh some poor people out there are grieving the loss of their piggies and some idiot is being SO disrespectful. It makes me angry and breaks my heart at the same time :(
 
i saw one the other day(i think i reported it as well) but instead of it saying new born pup,juinor pig etc it said Guest? i didnt think it was possible to post as a guest?
oh and thanks for removing them all:))
 
The guest ones were my fault (as most things are lol), I'd removed their account before removing the post. Should be the other way round, whoops.
 
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