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What's with the sudden flood of spam posts?

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:53 am
by Ghost
I haven't seen them hit this site, then all of the sudden, we get flooded.

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

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:14 pm
by mouse
Yeah, I told bettie, and she couldn't delete them so she's emailing Jamie.

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

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:00 pm
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.

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

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:50 pm
by mouse
Yeah, I reported one, but I don't even want to bother opening the rest to report them.

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

Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:26 pm
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.

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

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:16 am
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.

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

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:14 pm
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: