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Posted by Lorna
Spammers?? July 20, 2019 01:09AM |
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OK, Members, we have two people posting in the Foodie Chat pages, sometimes dragging up posts from many months ago to post a recipe link and picture. The recipe link is genuine, to a blog with recipes. I've checked each time. But the poster is making no genuine attempt to interact with other FL members. Do these posts bother you or are you OK with them?
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Re: Spammers?? July 20, 2019 08:07AM |
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I agree too with the others Lorna - when I see that the date from earlier posts (before their one ) is ages ago I scroll on by. I dont want to engage with this poster & continue the attention if you know what I mean.
Frustrating & challenging for the spammer removal lady - I just want to enjoy reading the updates from FL's
Frustrating & challenging for the spammer removal lady - I just want to enjoy reading the updates from FL's
Re: Spammers?? July 20, 2019 08:13AM |
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Agree with others, these posters don't appear to want to engage, just show off their photography which you'd have to say is very good!
However, if I was feeling particularly charitable, I might say that they are trying hard to engage but with limited command of the English language, they are using their photography as a means of communication.
From a forum moderator's perspective, it's a bit of a tricky one as it's not spam in the usual sense of the word.
Your call Lorna...
Regards,
Barbara Anne
Edited to add that if it is not the poster's own photography then that is a completely different story.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/20/2019 08:27AM by Barbara Anne.
However, if I was feeling particularly charitable, I might say that they are trying hard to engage but with limited command of the English language, they are using their photography as a means of communication.
From a forum moderator's perspective, it's a bit of a tricky one as it's not spam in the usual sense of the word.
Your call Lorna...
Regards,
Barbara Anne
Edited to add that if it is not the poster's own photography then that is a completely different story.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/20/2019 08:27AM by Barbara Anne.
Re: Spammers?? July 20, 2019 11:35PM |
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So, the overall response has been the same from all of you who have responded so far, so I think we will treat them as spam. I'm not sure if those two posters are the same person, but both are posting about the same blog, so who knows!! If anyone wants to save the blog as a favourite for themselves, it's up to them, but I don't think we need the continual posts on our forum.
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Re: Spammers?? July 26, 2019 12:40AM |
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Yes, Chris, that's what's happening. I'm deleting 2or 3 spammers most days at the moment. All their posts point to the same blog called Cooking Club by someone call Allyson something or other. Very annoying but it's easily fixed.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2019 12:43AM by Lorna.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2019 12:43AM by Lorna.
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Re: Spammers?? August 05, 2019 10:41PM |
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Sorry, Irene & TPANDAV, I have no idea of how to fix that. I only deal with deleting the spammers. However, I myself never use the 'Mark Forum as Read' button because as you read each posting the red 'marker' disappears. Irene, I don't really understand what you are doing. Are you marking the forum as read before you've opened it to see what postings are there?
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Re: Spammers?? August 06, 2019 10:49PM |
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I don't understand why you mark the forum as 'read' when you've opened, say, the Non-Food Chat forum and you see strange names in the list of topics. 'Mark the Forum as Read' will remove all the red flags that indicate there are unread messages.
I open each FORUM in turn, and see the list of TOPICS that have red flags denoting there are NEW POSTS in that forum. I open each topic and can see red flags beside each new post. I read the new posts and if there happens to be a spammer in there, I copy the name and then go to the admin area and delete that poster, return to the topic and delete the post, which now says 'anonymous poster' because I've deleted the poster.
Try to not 'Mark Forum As Read' until you've read the new posts in each topic, and if there happens to be a spammer there, just ignore it. It will disappear once I've done my part. I can see no reason for marking a forum as read, especially when you haven't read it!! Or am I missing something?? Am I misunderstanding what you do?
I open each FORUM in turn, and see the list of TOPICS that have red flags denoting there are NEW POSTS in that forum. I open each topic and can see red flags beside each new post. I read the new posts and if there happens to be a spammer in there, I copy the name and then go to the admin area and delete that poster, return to the topic and delete the post, which now says 'anonymous poster' because I've deleted the poster.
Try to not 'Mark Forum As Read' until you've read the new posts in each topic, and if there happens to be a spammer there, just ignore it. It will disappear once I've done my part. I can see no reason for marking a forum as read, especially when you haven't read it!! Or am I missing something?? Am I misunderstanding what you do?
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