Solved Spam

[N F C]

Aaaand they are back again

Reported and cleaned up.

 

[Sussex19]

Reported and cleaned up.

Thank you to you and all the mods for keeping on top of them.
I imagine it must be quite a pain to keep the forum tidy in the moment, so just wanted to let you know how much it is appreciated!

 

[N F C]

Thank you to you and all the mods for keeping on top of them.
I imagine it must be quite a pain to keep the forum tidy in the moment, so just wanted to let you know how much it is appreciated!

Thank you!

And thanks to all for their patience

 

[Blue Raptor]

Yup, I noticed those threads too. Thanks mods!

 

[Devorah]

And now they are all in Chinese. Too many posts to count. Can SOMEONE get them off the site, please? Oh and thanks. Mods, you’re the best

I, too, keep getting spammed in Chinese and otherwise. Has this been resolved?

 

[Devorah]

Reported and cleaned up.

Thanks very much — but it keeps coming! Ugh. Appreciate your help!

 

[N F C]

Thanks very much — but it keeps coming! Ugh. Appreciate your help!

It's an ongoing process. Thanks for your patience.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Thanks for everyone's patience!

The struggle with spam is finding the balance between keeping the bad-actors out, while letting the good-peeps in.

The problem: The only way to stop spam 100% is to 100% block all new users. Often, there's no way to know someone is a spammer until they start posting... and even in those cases, we've found that they are smart and will post a few non-spam posts to look legit, and then start posting spam.

It also puts it into perspective that HUGE sites with literally billions of $$ and the best programmers in the world (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) aren't able to stop spammers... so the fact that we are able to keep most of them away (with our shoestring budget) is pretty amazing!

So, while we keep doing all we can to slow the spammers down, the best thing our community can do is to report them immediately.

 

[SourRoses]

I think I would feel more patient if these threads about it didn't get the tag saying "solved"... it's not solved. It feels like being dismissed.
The worst thing about it is that it happens in the wee hours when Mods are justifiably sleeping so the spam hangs around for hours and fills up the recent posts box.

I think it would be good to give temporary mod powers to some insomniacs so they can at least hide that stuff until real mods are awake to deal with it.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I think I would feel more patient if these threads about it didn't get the tag saying "solved"... it's not solved. It feels like being dismissed.

Valid. I've changed the status.

I think it would be good to give temporary mod powers to some insomniacs so they can at least hide that stuff until real mods are awake to deal with it.

We'll work to make sure we have better coverage in the wee hours.