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Spam is killing this board.

Aug 15, 2010 1:38PM PDT

is there anything that can be done?

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Sporting links?
Aug 15, 2010 7:50PM PDT

The "Live sports here" posts are spamming all of the forums here. It is a concerted attack and has been going on for some time.

We do our best. Some of the links are filtered out, but they keep coming up with new links all the time. They register with new accounts each time so each time they are banned they just reappear.

We trawl the boards, use the Real-Time Activity listing, and use Advanced search when we are online.

I'm hopeful things will improve when the new forum software is introduced, hopefully at the end of this month.

In the meantime I notify WOT of each link I can that the linked web site is a forum spammer, example here;
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/satellitedirect.com

In case you don't know, WOT is Web of Trust, an add-on for Firefox, that helps prevent loading suspect web sites. It's like Mcafee's Site Advisor. If you or anyone else uses either, it might help to get these linked web sites marked as forum spammers, and get the word out.

I agree, these posts are a darn nuisance, and we're sorry that this is happening at this time.

Mark

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Thanks. I hope the new forum software works too.
Aug 16, 2010 10:17AM PDT

Its obvious that these are bots signing up with randomly generated names so it obviously like playing whack-a -mole for the moderators. I notice it mostly on my RSS feeds because even though the posts eventually get removed on the forums they come through RSS loud and clear.

I'm not sure what depresses me more, the fact that there are bottom feeders who spam for a living or that there are people dumb enough to actually respond to the garbage they peddle.

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Yes I agree, it's sad.
Aug 16, 2010 7:55PM PDT

And it messes up other users' use of these forums.

In addition... Uh oh, gotta go, more posts to delete, Happy

Mark

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(NT) Drink Coca-Cola
Aug 16, 2010 12:11AM PDT
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Funny...
Aug 17, 2010 3:02AM PDT

I've always thought of your posts as spam... <joking!> Hope the summer is going well. Kind of slow around here on the board.

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(NT) literate spam perhaps....
Aug 17, 2010 8:29AM PDT