Nope we have a great number of spammers who have infiltrated the site. I reported it over 30 minutes ago.
This used to happen all the time a couple years ago. Make's it real hard to get any information to quit smoking, EH?
Those are spammers. Member since April 11 last login April 11 and this is what they post? I don't speak Korean or Chinese but I'm sure those codes like kk4678 shouldn't be repeated throughout plus there's hearts and everything in there no those are not real people!
They're multiplying!
Yep and we have no one and no way to do anything about it. I'm taking the day off.
Please report them as abuse will clean it up as soon as I can. I already cleaned as much as I could before waking my kids for school.
Mark
Thanks. Each person is posting the same thing every minute! Spreading like a wildfire!
They are posting over 10 a minute. We can't report them fast enough. There's a dozen of them in the new members list. You need to block them from continuing to post.
This one just started "following" me:
Mark I tried to flag them, but I don't know how. The Actions button on their page doesn't offer "report this person" or anything like that.
This is a bad time for Mark and it's also same the time they always used to post, right before people go to work. They used to advertise. Now it's just gibberish to us.
I reported it 2 hours ago when it was just me and the spammers.
There isn't a report person option yet. You'll have to report their content. I've asked for a "Report Person" option and there has been some interest in it, so hopefully we'll see something in the future.
Mark
EX Community Manager
Interestingly I was thinking about spammers yesterday and how great that we hadn't seen much of them on the new platform. I was wondering if this new group are bots, but I don't think a bot has the capacity to join the site. I hope this won't make them go back to necessitating both parties to follow one another in order to private message.
Giulia wrote:
Interestingly I was thinking about spammers yesterday and how great that we hadn't seen much of them on the new platform. I was wondering if this new group are bots, but I don't think a bot has the capacity to join the site. I hope this won't make them go back to necessitating both parties to follow one another in order to private message.
If they start spamming people via Direct Message, then yes we'd have to turn that requirement back on.
They're not bots. It's people from Korea and Philippines using something to replicate a lot of posts quickly.
Mark
EX Community Manager
Is it possible to de-activate my membership till all is OK and sorted out? All the work I do from home is sent by email and I might delete emails from my employers between these thousands of spam mails. They just keep coming faster than I can delete. Please advise. Thanks Mark.
Bree19 Change to preferences to NOT receive email notifications. You do that by clicking on your avatar, selecting preferences and check the NO box for email.
Bree19 I changed my preference to not receive emails, I come to the site and check my inbox. For me, it works much better.
Sorry for the tardy response. Community came and gave the suggestion I would have provided.
Mark
EX Community Manager
BFN
Help? Another abbr. I don't know?
In Travel Consultant terms BFN refers to Bloemfontein Airport over here.
Bye For Now
Please report them as abuse will clean it up as soon as I can. I already cleaned as much as I could before waking my kids for school.
Mark