Been seeing alot of spam garbage with different web site crap. Are the mods taking care of this? We dont need our forum closed due to scum bags.
nepas
Hey Nepas
Your right, we don't need this great resorce screwed up by these "goofs".
I sent a few pm's to Admin. regarding this and the influx of bogus members that have spam web sites (porn) listed in their profile on the weekend. They are looking into it.
Mike
TY Mike
nepas
Yeah it's a damn nuisance!
(http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/peeing-man.gif)(http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s62/Gitster59/Beware-Spam.gif)
Hapening daily now. Its a shame scum bags aint got nothing better to do.
nepas
there has to be a way to stop the spamers, it is a nuisance and takes away from what this forum is all about ... bradley smokers, how to use them, recipies, and tricks on how to smoke. As well to help each other with problems that occur with the bradleys.
if you cant guess I HATE SPAMERS...
now that i have vented on this issue i will get off my high horse and let some one else have it
I could not agree more.
We have a great group of friends here and I hope it stays that way for a very long time.
Quotethere has to be a way to stop the spamers
There is, but you need at least two super moderators or two "Limited" Admin.
Just like the recipe site...no one can just sign up and post. I clear them first. If they get by me then I have a couple of levels of ban I do. If they still get past me I just pick up the phone and call Cyber Dude.
Olds
Man... they "really" need to step the pace up on these spammers!
There's about 4 pages of bogus members now! I have a feeling they are just getting started.
Mike
Yep, I'm with ya Mike just had another......reported, I guess with the internet its kinda hard to stop!
C
QuoteThere is, but you need at least two super moderators or two "Limited" Admin.
Yes you're right Raye, as we've said in the past it would probably be much better allround if this forum/community were maintained or partly controled by some of our members. We at least need regular moderators, or even better admins with enough power to keep things running smoothly.
An admin with the right privilages could even keep the forum updated as and when updates become available, we've already had issues with this in the past. Kam the Bradley IT guy has been great with dealing with problems in the past, but it still takes time, and we're always at the mercy of waiting for somebody to fix things. If we had member mods/admins with the correct privilages they could deal with any issues very quickly.
It is without doubt the members that have made this place so great, so surely it would make sense for some members to help take care of things?
Even the pest spammers could have their accounts deleted instantly, even if they manage to join up, they can be shown the door very quickly, and their posts removed ;)
Maybe the Bradley gods might listen?.............LilSmoker (http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s62/Gitster59/Tip-Hat.gif)
I totally agree with ya LS, a member mods/admin is the way to go to get rid of this crap quick and efficiently. Its really getting out of hand!
C
This won't help against forum spammers but -
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/major-source-of-online-scams-spams.html
The e-mail spam volume I normally get is now practically 0.
Tom
Good Morning All,
Katie with bradley Smokers here.
I just wanted to let you all know that we are doing our best to eliminate all the spammers. Every Spam Post reported gets sent to our IT Department right away to be deleted. We are also on here ourselves trying to monitor the content. We love the Forum too and want to keep it running and are just as frustrated as you guys with some of the posts that show up.
Anyways, just wanted to drop a note. Have a great weekend!
Thanks Katie!
We'll do our part, thats for sure!
C
.... And also to all of you who do report the spam to us, thank you very much for all your help. We truly appreciate it!
Thanks for all the hard work & for keeping us posted Katie!
It can be very frustrating at times for sure.
Mike
Like the others said, thanks for your help and a big thank-you for your post. Nice to know that you folks are there. ;)
well i have seen 4 scum bags join today with Bull Sheeeit.
Maybe Bradley should ask for the serial# and copy of the sales receipt to verify before they can join. Then Bradley emails the person an activation code to join the forum?
Sounds good huh
nepas
Thank you to Katie and the team, as well as those of you that have been reporting these undesirables.
I come here to learn about the finer arts of smoking foods, and even be introduced to friends who are like minded in this area; being this is the main purpose of this fine forum. Not to see spam.
With most php forums there are filters that can be set up to instantly block spam that admins can set up. I know, I use to admin a few forums awhile back.
Although the spam is irritating, I don't let it stop me from reading and occasionally posting in regaurds to smoking foods and meat preping.
One would think spammers would set their spam bots to hit forums where they would have a higher percentage of turnover/profit, such as adult type forums for porn spam.
Hey, what if a serious C coder scripted a Bradley bot to spam adult forums, sites and IRC's with ads for Bradley smokers and wood pucks? Wow, I bet they would cry loud and try and put an immediate stop to that one, eh?
This is getting to be a bit much. I see one on now, wish I could put my shotgun to use. Dead in my site.
thank you bradley and katie for all of your help and support of spamers