There has been a recent upsurge of spammers registering here and posting their garbage. We have enough guards in place to hold off the bots from registering, so it takes a human to get registered here. Usually they register late at night and get to post right away and get out before anyone catches them. Their current technique is to revive an old post and say something innocuous, then use their signature to post a link to some site selling something. Others just blatantly post their message and forget about going through the process of adding a signature.

Regardless, we seem to have members on site just about 24/7, and some spam doesn't last but minutes before someone reports it or one of our staff catches it. As a result, we rarely see spam here for any length of time. Mikey and I, as well as all the moderators appreciate your vigilance. For those of you that aren't aware, you can report a post by clicking on the triangle with the "!" in it in the upper right corner of any post. At that point, anyone on our staff can deal with the post and we will ban whoever posted it. You can also report any other questionable posts and we can make a determination of how to handle it after that. On those, we sometimes just ask the poster to edit their post, or we may just move the post to a secure area until we've discussed it with the person that posted it. In our almost three years of being here, we have yet to ban anyone other than a spammer. That shows your the quality of people we have as members here.

Again, no one wants to see spam, and no one wants to see things that are not appropriate for our family-friendly site, so here's a great big
to all of you for helping keep this site clean.

A bigger thanks has to go to you administrators and mods for following up in a timely manner when these things are reported!
SO THANKS RIGHT BACK AT YOU

It's you guys doing an excellent job...We just enjoy the fruits of your labor....

Let me say that I have been unaware of any spam for ages now. Everyone must be doing a really good job.

I have only come across some spam on this site once and I must admit that I was surprised to see it. :?: :?: :?: I had to work out what it was all about as it was some gibberish that in no way related to the topic under discussion and it was spread over several topics. I think from memory it was on a Sunday morning Aussie time, which relates to ezday's comments about the spammers jumping on late at night U.S time.

I would also like to add my thanks to the admin team and the moderators for such excellent spammer housekeeping as it's only when they get through that you realise what a nuisance these programs and people are.

Mark