What's with the sudden flood of spam posts?

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Ghost
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What's with the sudden flood of spam posts?

Post by Ghost »

I haven't seen them hit this site, then all of the sudden, we get flooded.
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mouse
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Re: What's with the sudden flood of spam posts?

Post by mouse »

Yeah, I told bettie, and she couldn't delete them so she's emailing Jamie.
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Ghost
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Re: What's with the sudden flood of spam posts?

Post by Ghost »

If you look at the lower right side of every post, there is a button with a ! in it. That button is for flagging the post as inappropriate. I filled out the form for two of them, but it takes too much time to do it for everyone.

I know that most of the people here oppose nuclear war, but I do think that the foreign countries harboring spammers is cause for dropping the bomb.
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mouse
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Re: What's with the sudden flood of spam posts?

Post by mouse »

Yeah, I reported one, but I don't even want to bother opening the rest to report them.
"The massage area. Why? To increase the nudity." ~Joss Whedon

"It's a miraculous thing, the hoohoo. I once saw a woman fit one of those minicars full of clowns in her hoohoo." ~Ghost

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bettie
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Re: What's with the sudden flood of spam posts?

Post by bettie »

I don't even know where those forms go once you fill them out. Maybe to Jamie? Maybe into the void? I have no idea.
Ghost
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Re: What's with the sudden flood of spam posts?

Post by Ghost »

I assumed that they sent an email to the administrator account.

I noticed that they were deleted, thank God. Was Jamie going to grant the old mods mod powers now?

Edit: She implemented a spam question. It's sad that people will ruin the internet just to get a few dollars. It is even sadder that it works well enough to make spam worthwhile.
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jamiemarie
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Re: What's with the sudden flood of spam posts?

Post by jamiemarie »

Ghost wrote:I assumed that they sent an email to the administrator account.
Nope. If bettie hadn't emailed me, it probably would have been a little while before I noticed! :oops:
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