ghudson said:
today I see more spam ads than actual Access related posts in the General section.
What the heck has happened to this forum in the last two months?
Is anybody moderating this forum?
It's not just this forum but plenty of others. My own history site has been subject to it, a number of book sites I visit, and other forums too. It would seem that spammers have worked out how to bypas the CAPTCHA verification system. Other forums get less spam activity because the admins are on hand to ban domain names from registration email addresses. I know that I have a huge list of domains that are banned from my history forum and I share this with other sites I'm a member of to prevent spam affecting my online experience.
Unfortunately here, the admin is non-existant, and has no idea that the forum is falling into a mire of spam. I have tried contacting him and find his lack of response extremely annoying. I feel he should check in at least once a week just to ensure things are ticking over. What's the point in having a suggestions forum, for example, if he never reads it?
The moderators, myself included, are doing their best to remove the spam from the forum. Unfortunately, we don't have the ability to ban domains from spamming so when one account is banned, another just sprouts up. It's frustrating. What would help is if the forum's users were more helpful in pointing out the spam to us by using the report post icon (at the top right of the post) to at least notify us. This, at the very least, will help remove those that may otherwise slip through the net.
My last message sent to our admin
in absentia was to give me Admin privileges over the board. That way, at least, I'd be able to get the place tidied up once and for all. But, until then, we are just doing the best we can to remove spam with limited tools.
