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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:20 pm
by arsan
heybabylover wrote:May i have a personal question? counld u sent me your email address?My email is [email][color="Red"]deleted[/color][/email], thx, man.


is this spam?? :bonk:

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:55 pm
by Rafiki
[color="Blue"][SIZE="1"](Moved this to a thread of its own, to avoid cluttering the original one)[/size][/color]
arsan wrote:is this spam?? :bonk:

[color="Blue"]Yes.

And if you quote it (especially if there's unwanted URLs or mail addresses in it), it just means there's more for us to clean up afterwards ;)

Lately, there has been a significant increase in spam, but not to unmanageable levels. Some we've discovered (and handled) on our own, while others have been brought to our attention by assorted forum members. I'd like to take the opportunity to thank those who take the trouble to bring unwanted postings to our attention. This may surprise some, but we aren't online 24/7, and an e-mail (e.g. by clicking the "report post"-button) or a message on IM goes a long way in getting the "Big Guns" brought to bear :) [/color]

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:05 pm
by Primasprit
Is this SPAM? :nuts:

Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:09 pm
by Rafiki
Primasprit wrote:Is this SPAM? :nuts:

Yes, but that is more based on the posting history of the poster, rather than the content of the post itself....


;)

Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 12:05 am
by arsan
Rafiki wrote:[color="Blue"][SIZE="1"]
[color="Blue"](e.g. by clicking the "report post"-button) [/color]


Hmmm... thats a good idea! :niark:
(i had never noticed that button before :bonk: :bonk: :bonk :)

Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 2:33 am
by Tory Whig
Rafiki,

I don’t want to appear to be a dolt but, I can’t seem to find the “report post” button. :bonk: Could one also PM the listed forum moderator who is currently listed as online? By the way, you guys are really good at eliminating these unwanted posts.

Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 2:54 am
by GoldSpear
If Zhuangzi had a grapevine would it look like this? :confused:

Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 6:47 am
by Rafiki
Tory Whig wrote:I don’t want to appear to be a dolt but, I can’t seem to find the “report post” button. :bonk:

No worries :)

You can find it to the left, in the row of icons under people's forum nick (and avatar, for the forumites who have such), to the right of the "online" indicator. It's the icon that looks like a danger sign, like this: Image
Tory Whig wrote:Could one also PM the listed forum moderator who is currently listed as online?
That works too. However, so far, the spammers seem to spread their spam around the forums a bit, and the moderators usually have their superpowers valid for a specific set of forums :cwboy:
Tory Whig wrote:By the way, you guys are really good at eliminating these unwanted posts.
Good to hear :) As I said above; we'd be a lot slower if it wasn't for the help we get