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lots of spam posts?

Post by friarygirl » Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:17 am

Can't someone just nix them? There's so many of them. In my day we used to kill them straight off - well,whenever we caught them...
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Re: lots of spam posts?

Post by Jomomma » Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:59 pm

We kill them when we catch them.

When I see it I kill it. I try to kill spammers before they ever post and I try to monitor all reports so they can be taken care of as soon as humanly possible.
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Re: lots of spam posts?

Post by friarygirl » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:35 pm

Spam sucks. Specially here. Kill the b********s
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Re: lots of spam posts?

Post by Realities » Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:30 am

there's some here: http://buslist.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php? ... 0#p3974760 (and below that there's antoher spam post)

Thanks guys!I know it's been insane with spammers lately!
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Post by kiwi33 » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:16 am

Thanks Realities :) - I have flagged "BoogPayoR" to be zapped by the admins.

Most of the spammers are not real - they are spambots (= software written by unpleasant people) which automatically spam forums.

BTW, the easiest way to report spam is to click on the red "!" (bottom RHS of the screen) and select "spam" from the menu. That sends a message to the admins and to the mods responsible for that part of the board.
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Re: lots of spam posts?

Post by Realities » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:59 am

oh cool, thanks for explaining that kiwi, I didn't know that! :D
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