Spam in the forums

[Jasonovich]

Who Ya' Gonna Call?




I Aint 'fraid of No Spam.......

 

[Friesiansam]

Future Publishing surely must have the resources to deal with it.

 

[SHaines]

Are WHF going to continue burying your heads in the sand and pretending like locking down the forum is a worse user experience than continually being greeted by Spam every time you visit?

The forum is being inundated with it at the moment and it's unacceptable to just to rely on the volunteer mods removing it when they see it.

They must be as sick of removing it as I am reporting it at this point!

Sorry if there is a misunderstanding of my previous message, but to clarify, looking at the timestamps there was a two week gap between the arrival of excessive spam. This morning I logged on at 6am to clean it up, ban the spammers, and strengthen our protections further.

This forum is here to be used by its members and that requires keeping it open for new folks who want to join.

Spam is an inconvenient nuisance and extremely annoying, we agree completely. Creating a private forum used exclusively by the existing members isn't a real solution.

We're going to continually work on improving security, but if the expectation is for there to never be an instance of spam hitting the live forum, those need to be reset.

It's a fact that spam will happen on forums. It's a fact we move quickly to remove it. It's also a fact that it was two weeks between attacks and the current one has also been shut down and removed.

Being annoyed by spam is entirely natural, but just because we all need to sleep sometimes doesn't mean we're cogs of a corporate machine that don't have any care or interest in how the forum operates. We're all just people trying to do our best without taking the step of closing the forum to all but the current members.

 

[davidf]

Mods are going to be busy when they wake up...

 

[bigboss]

Having been a mod in previous WHF forum when it was with Haymarket and now when it restarted under Future, I can say that Future is more proactive in removing and preventing spam. They're actively banning email domains, live links etc. Without that, spam would have been a lot more worse.

I still remember during Haymarket days when we used to get pages and pages of spam. We used to drop an email to the mods group (including WHF employees) and we all used to work on removing spam together. It was a tedious process. Removing spam is relatively easier now.

Obviously we're only 2 volunteer moderators who are helping the admins to keep the forum clean. And the admin team from what I understand look after a bunch of forums until Future group, not just this one.