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What is today, National Foreign Language Spam Day or what?

I've been reporting this crap all day in as many unique, lighthearted and humorous ways as I can think of and now my thinker is on strike, I think, or I think not, or whatever. Haha!

Anyway, it's all just Greek to me, lol!

Help me keep up the good fight?


Terra
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    Yeah, I have reported a lot of spam today as well. Tons of it is being posted, no doubt about that!

    Cheers

    -don
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    • Me too, although I just put "spam" in my report. Now if they'd just eliminate that 60-second wait rule it would really make things so much easier!
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      I'll be honest: I object far more to the blatant self-promoters than the spamskibots, and I know they do the forum far more harm, too. The latter, at least, are readily identifiable for what they are. (I do "report" both, and the spambot ones get removed.)

      Excellent pink hat, Terra. (I have the matching shoes, if you want, but I suspect you already have those, too? ).

      This.

      I asked on 23rd November and heard that the Powers That Be were considering shortening the flood interval to 10 seconds, but that was a couple of weeks ago, and clearly it hasn't happened.

      .
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  • It's rampant lately. Even my site has been getting hit and I NEVER get spam in there. Spent a good lot of time this weekend deleting new accounts.

    What's worse - is, at least on my site, it's got some questions to get registered that you have to be human to answer, and they are changed now and again to prevent auto fill.

    With the mods being paid in here now, I usually only report spam that is inside of threads instead of OP spam. I figure they can catch the OP spam fast enough themselves, but that inner thread stuff is really hard to spot.

    BTW - Terra. I saw "Yikes" and I was worried about what I'd see when I opened this thread after our discussion the other day. LMAO. Still spooked.
  • It's a shame about the self-promotion, too - because I like to talk about my niche - because it includes some just very awesome experiences I have on trips I take -- and sometimes it was kewl being able to just hook up my link to my blog in here. It never used to be taken as self promotional, especially since I wasn't trying to sell anything and that most members wouldn't have wanted any affiliated products, but would get kicks out of the pics and stories. I can't do that now. I can understand why - but still find it a shame that I can't share a few of my trips out as easily as I used to be able to.
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    • That is unfortunate, Sal, because what you describe isn't what I'd consider self-promotional.

      It's all these members who contribute nothing to threads with lame one-liners - or start new nonsense threads - just to get exposure to their links. And do it regularly. Those get old really fast. But it's also very tedious to keep reporting them.
  • If you think I'm gonna wade around a swamp, you're nuts. I will explore around a swamp - but you won't get me wading into one. Let's just call it a marker that appeared to nail down the location correctly, could we do that please?
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    • LOL! Do I look like the kind of girl that wades around in swamps to you? Haha!

      Sure, we can do that.

      Maybe I'll just poke around in it with a big stick otherwise it will drive me bonkers thinking about it.


      Terra
  • You think you have it bad....I tried to report spam, and was told I needed a War Room account in order to do that.
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    • Yes, nice pink hat Terra, clearly the work of a certified graphics genius!

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    Yikes!

    What is today, National Foreign Language Spam Day or what? I've been reporting this crap all day in as many unique, lighthearted and humorous ways as I can think of and now my thinker is on strike, I think, or I think not, or whatever. Haha!