SORT THE SPAM OUT PLEASE

[Felly Magic]

I see we have yet more spam on the forum. 3 almost identical threads. Argh

[KruJoe]

Felly, PLEASE read threads before you add to them. Ta.

[Cavcraft]

Felly, PLEASE STFU occasionally, Ta.

 

EFA.

[Craig the Princess]

I think this was an exisiting one that slipped past the cull (joined in October). The new steps by "The Management" should stop any new ones.

 

I'm not sure about that.

I can't see the back of this board but EL/HS said they deleted 14000 spammers and suspended all the rest but if you look at the member list there's over 5800 members and only 1200 or so have posted anything.

The rest display nothing apart porn/drugs/uggboots weblinks in their signatures.

I think the most recent spammer came from this lot and there's probably another 3600 or so where he came from.

 

It's been 4/5 days since the board came back adn they are the only 3 threads, so the management have done a pretty stand-up job IMHO. That said a few more (just SPAM clearing) Mods would help.

[FredTransit]

I have to say a spammer getting in (or waking up) after only 4 days isnt that good. If theres that many dormant accounts displaying spam links delete them! I am sure there wont be any genuine members among em. I regularly used to delete 60 spammers a day so I know what its like, but also know it can be done. 60 would take about half an hour so it would be possible to dump all of em in a day. Ill do it!

[Spiny Norman]

EL said he'd de-activated but not binned them completely. I hope there's going to be some movement on the appointing of some new mods to assist in the day-to-day running of these boards sooner rather than later. After the flurry of activity a few days ago it's all gone a bit quiet again.

[FredTransit]

Leaving them on the members list means

1the link is giving them the advertising

2any bot writer will see this is the kind of forum they can have a go at

Its less trouble to delete them (as quick as deleting multi emails) than open each account to deactivate them.

[FredTransit]

guess what? Just had the same message that was posted gere as a PM overon Capri Power. FFS why would that get them any more businrss?

[daveb47]

I did offer lol.