hi to all here. I have finally got the nerve to post. I am 61 and
have just been forced to retire from my career. I was interested in the web
way back and since I now have much free time I have started fooling with it again.
I was surfing the web to get some ideas on how to do my blog better and I came upon this web site. I was impressed
by the material here so I just wanted to give the admins and members a compliment. I hope that I
may eventually do as good! Anyway I just wanted to say thanks for the hard work you have
performed. My site is about [link deleted] if anyone wants to take a look.
Again,thanks for the great work!
Runner Pat, I wasn’t certain about this one. However, he/ she has exactly the same ICQ friends as Hitituplitely (or whatever) at this post. I have time for my investigative skills seeing I haven’t been raptured.
Yeah, if a new poster has that format, I ban, even if s/he hasn’t spammed yet. Usually these people simply drop one turd and go, but sometimes they’ll post more than one spam thread.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I figure that the more info that regular posters have about spammers, the better. If posters know about this profile format, and they look at a new member and see that format, they know that this is a spammer.
The thing is, we (the staff) NEED reports. Sometimes we don’t have the time to inspect every single post in a forum, or we might not want to open a thread we’re not interested in.
Now, some people are under the impression that disagreeing with them is some sort of violation. It isn’t. And a few posters have managed to make a name for themselves as being extremely unreliable when it comes to figuring out just what is a violation and what isn’t. But for the most part, reports are quite valuable.
Usually we don’t. There’s no real need to, because we usually don’t leave their threads or posts in public view, so very few people are going to check them out. But I did it in this cas.
OK. BTW, I wish you would also more consistently delete the “Reported” post when you delete a spam post. Because when you don’t, some poster just sees the “Reported” post below some innocent post from a longtime poster and wonders why the report.
*Profile of a Spammer, commercially;
link-infected PC when it wakes up!
Porn? Car insurance? Angry Russian Brides?
Line-dancing cowboys? He sent me there…
But jealous bytes and all her secret codes!
Jam AV Disk to innoculate!
My screen goes blank, but my PC’s running.
Fan does scream & cry; plastic tower’s snarking,
Alt-F4; pound F8! Cursing start-up Safe Mode
But processing takes longer
(takes longer…takes longer…takes longer…)*
Funny, I never used to have this problem with Winwood 6.0…
Yes, I left the thread because I thought the discussion about how to recognize a spammer was helpful. I didn’t think to remove the link in the profile because I don’t usually leave the profile out where people can see it.
As Lynn said, we rely on you guys reporting spam. When I’m at work, for instance, I don’t usually have a tab open to the Boards, but I do to my mod email, so I will see those reports way before seeing the spam.
Dewey – I usually remove “reported” posts or add an explanatory note – go ahead and report if you see that happen, it’s usually just a spaceout on the part of the mod who’s doing the banning and the documentation of the banning. (You should see spam-a-lot thread – 6,670 posts and counting.)