I have been noticing SPAM posts and SPAM status updates.

What a choice do they offer us: fix premature ejaculation, male enhancements, garcinia for weight-loss, Probiotics, there were some targeting the female members and more ....

Usually a Spam post is made as a 1st Newbie post.

Usually the spammer will post only a link to their spamming website. I am seriously concerned that by inadvertently clicking on one of those links could potentially result in downloading a trojan virus and malware.

Spammers also post Status Updates.

I just had my little rant about Spammers in my status update, then noticed that Directly below My status update is a Spammer promoting male enhancements and stopping/curing premature ejaculation .......

There were some spamming posts in the past that totally did not make sense! Yes, written in English with words put together into nonsense, like a wilted word salad ....

I normally used to ignore the spamming posts, I also reported a few.

Today I decided to Rant about the spammers.

PS, all that hype re: garcinia cambogia is bogus. It will not magically melt fat away nor reduce the appetite.

I think this problem could be solved by restricting Newbies from posting links.

I think what the spammers are doing is to post links so that spiders can pick up the link and position their link high up on the search engine listings. So it is important to permanently remove this spam and not let it sit in the archives of this website. Otherwise this website is inadvertently giving these links credibility.

It also seems like this Spam is being generated in India or that region. It generally appears around 2 o'clock (East Coast of the U.S. time) in the morning or thereabouts. And some originators once and a while cite their location as country of origin.

I think this problem could be solved by restricting Newbies from posting links.

I think what the spammers are doing is to post links so that spiders can pick up the link and position their link high up on the search engine listings. So it is important to permanently remove this spam and not let it sit in the archives of this website. Otherwise this website is inadvertently giving these links credibility.

@@James Marusek

Great advice! It makes sense re restricting Newbies initially from posting links.

I agree re removing these spammers and their posts ASAP.

@@Alex Brecher

Could you or Ken S look into it, please?

Thank you.

At least the Spammers are good for a laugh. Their English is fascinating. I've tried reporting a couple of these posts, but it seems it's getting worse! My cleavage, premature ejaculation, size and energy levels don't need your wonder cream/pills, people.

LOL, the Spammer below my status took a hike! So it is Not Lisa's status below mine.

Right now, there is 1 Spammer at the bottom of Recent Topics, and 5 in Topics with No Reply!

@@Malin

Yes, good for a laugh, and I agree, the Spammers seem to be multiplying these days ....

I don't need their crap either!

Pretty please use the REPORT function to let us know about spam posts. We normally block them as soon as they're reported! Good idea on disabling newbies from adding links. We will implement that.

@@Alex Brecher

Thank you Alex! I've reported few spammers.

Today I decided to out them out ....

I will go back to reporting them.

Yes, disabling newbies from posting links will be a sensible action, hopefully we will be getting lot less of Spam, and hopefully none.