Just wondering if there is a way to report an inappropriate post to the mods. I've see a few uninvited guests around lately leaving unwelcome posts. I know the moderators are always on the look out, but is there a way to give them a heads up?

I am active on another board that has a senior member forum, you have to be there 90 days without being in any trouble. Then you are granted entrance into the senior forum. I wonder if making a restriction on lins would be possible here, like the waiting period is there? ~Mandy

I am active on another board that has a senior member forum, you have to be there 90 days without being in any trouble. Then you are granted entrance into the senior forum. I wonder if making a restriction on lins would be possible here, like the waiting period is there? ~Mandy

A lot of people find this forum right before or right after they are banded. When someone has a question and they need an answer at 10PM, they really need that answer now.

I don't think there is enough spam here to make it worthy to put new policies in place. The mods are great about removing it quickly. I just write a post saying "already reported" so everyone doesn't slam them with reports. (Not my idea, I saw the suggestion elsewhere)

If spam was hundreds of times daily I might understand new policies but people really need to ask questions immediately if they think they are in trouble.

JMHO.

Again, I am not saying to stop new people from posting. I am saying stop new people from posting LINKS. I am the one that suggested the "already reported" idea. I am all for new people posting as much as they want. I know I jumped in with both feet from day one. I am just saying don't allow someone to create an account and then post 40 links 5 mins later. ~Mandy

JMHO... I still don't think there is enough spam to justify policy changes but again, that is simply my opinion.

Yeah, there aren't THAT many that pop up on here to justify that, I don't think. Just report it when you see it, post an "already reported" message, and let it go. If they were filling up the board with it, then I could see putting a restriction on it, but I didn't see it as that big a problem. At least not yet, anyway.

I've added a few features that will allow us to combat spam:

1) When users sign up they must enter a "captcha" code that's embedded into an image. This way the spammers can't use bots to sign up for accounts and post to the forums.

2) After a user signs up they must verify that their email is valid by clicking on a link we send in an email right after they sign up.

3) I've deleted 150 user accounts that were signed up by spammers

4) I've added a list of IP addresses from the spammers that signed up with us that will block them from seeing the forum. I'll continue to add their IPs until they give up.

5) We've added a reporting feature that notifies all moderators as soon as it's reported and creates a post in the moderator only section with all the spam details which can be used to combat these bastards

I think this should definitely slow down the spam to a trickle and hopefully get rid of it for good.

It's not a yellow triangle in the upper right anymore. Now it is a white and red triangle in the lower left!

Thanks Alex for fighting spam for all of us! :girl_hug:

Alli