Sp@mmers

As many have seen recently there has been an increase in spam that is being dumped on the forum. As Mods, it has been great that everyone is letting us know about spam as it pops up - we've all got "real" (read other) jobs to go to so can't be on the forum 24 x 7. So please keep letting us know - we do try to bop it on the head as soon as we can. We are looking into the source and if we can stop it from getting through, but haven't been totally successful to date.

If you do see spam or something that looks suspiciously like spam - please DON'T click on any links - even for laughs. I know it's telling many of you how to suck eggs, but having had to devirussize a couple of friends PC's after nasty links, I don't want anyone else to have to work through it themselves. Who knows what the spammers are also getting from you when you do click the links as well.

So thanks to everyone for their vigilance and please keep it up - until we have this nutted, they may pop through on occasion, but with some attention, we should minimise any harm.

We have temporarily shut down the welcome threads.....this has been their target. Lets hope they get bored and go-away.

Cheers for that Mods, I know only too well how much of a pain spam is, I'm a member of another Forum (Freestompboxes.org) that gets hit by spam alot, mostly to do with either Nike shoes or Louis Vuitton products, in each of the thread posts at Freestompboxes.org there's a little triangle-shaped icon used to report a thread post if it is spam, the Mods then deal with it.


It appears that the good majority of spam seems to be coming from somewhere in China.


Keep up the good work, much appreciated, and yes I try to be proactive too.

No worries - we've got something similar. Little triangle with an "!" directly under the poster's avatar. Feel free to use this if you see any spam - we'll hopefully be able to nuke it and the user promptly.

Cheers Bman and Mods for getting ontop of it. Now I know what the triangle is for I'll hit it if I see any spam

Spam - offensive language - bullying - anything you think shouldn't be here and want to report to the mod squad. We'll have a quick gek and make a call - blatant spammers - no warnings, just nuked.

No worries, I have just noticed the little triangle shaped icon so I will make sure I do use it if/when I see any spam and,or, offensive posts, I'll be able to get more pro-active in the fight against spam now, the last thing I want to have to do is wade through x-number of irrelevant spam posts just to get to the one post with info that could get me out of a jam.

The people running the servers that the spammers use could get a bit more pro-active too, apparently there are international laws dealing with spam and spammers already in existence, whether those laws are being enforced or not is anyone's guess.

I agree Brendan, these people all drive us crazy, be it our spam emails at work and home. The more people that jump on these stamp them out the better. Thanks for pointing out the triangle

Wokka, please stop reporting all DB's posts......they can't ALL be offensive! :p

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Originally Posted by Gavin1393

Wokka, please stop reporting all DB's posts......they can't ALL be offensive! :p

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Lol....that just made my day....cheers.

Good news - our Tech Support guy has implemented some extra protection so fingers crossed, the spammers will move on to another forum and annoy them!

We still haven't worked out a way to protect us from the Pest though ;).

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We still haven't worked out a way to protect us from the Pest though ;).

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Industrial sized can of Mortien?

Try these guys Brendan

Need something stronger than mortein to keep the Pest away. Usually locking him in the NW cupboard under the stairs works

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Need something stronger than mortein to keep the Pest away. Usually locking him in the NW cupboard under the stairs works

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Now why would you want to do such a thing! what would our forum be without our pest (other than bug free)?!!!

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Need something stronger than mortein to keep the Pest away. Usually locking him in the NW cupboard under the stairs works

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No, I'm still here! Sorry guys but nothing so far can get rid of me!

"A million bucks worth of weaponry, and I'd trade it all back for a lousy can of Raid."

some of the posts above made me think of this quote..

Someone from the mods or a spammer has put an avatar in my profile. Not that I wouldn't appreciate the help with a picture - I don't really like that artistic expression with my name on it. Nice try but wouldn't use it...

If it's a joke by one of the mods it's a good one - if not then this is one more childish prank of a spammer or what not...

Hey Arzi doubt it's a spammer but you can never say never.
Just change it to a photo of one of your builds, just go to "Settings" and on the left side "edit avatar"

Well

Didn't wanna take it away before I could spread the joy. Now that I think of it - it's not that bad although I think I'll change it anyway. :)

put it this way Arzi it's a heap better than the avatars the mods gave me hahaha I owe those guys more than one prank

You're right Woks! :)

Nothing wrong with Mod's choice of Avatars, Woks.....

Nice to see the banned "members" showing up in bright red on my wife's semi intelligent i tablet device.

( I dislike apple with a passion, you buy the bloody thing for far more than they are worth and then have to give them your credit card details to turn the bloody thing on FFS )

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Originally Posted by dingobass

Nothing wrong with Mod's choice of Avatars, Woks.....

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Yeah, they seem appropriate! *smirk*

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Nothing wrong with Mod's choice of Avatars, Woks.....

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What is Wokka on about? Doesn't he like his Avatar.....you could always help him out with choosing a new one DB