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    @admin...SPAM is driving me nuts!!

    I just need to vent. This growing occurrence in spam on the forum feed is driving me bloody crazy. Most of the time I ignore it but I hate that it bumps threads off the feed so we don't get responses. I find that it is making the site a place I don't want to come to as often. It is almost daily it seems if not at least multiple times a week that these bloody threads overpower the site. I understand that blocking these members is near impossible as each time they are posting with a new IP address and user name but is there no way these threads can be deleted as soon as they come up. I cant tell you how many times I have reported inappropriate threads to admin with zero response and they don't get deleted. There has to be a better way of handling this. Can't an admin log on each morning and do a clean sweep of all the nonsense, I'd even volunteer to do it myself to make this a better experience for all. Its bad enough when multiple real members take up the feed with separate threads for the same topic but that is not something done on purpose I am sure, but surely you can see the frustration when members log on and post asking for advice and no one ever gets to see it because its been bumped off the screen by SPAM.

    Please tell me there is something that can be done about this.

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    I agree bright sparks!

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    Here here

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    I catch as much of it as I can. If you report it gets sent to my email and I can delete it and ban the spammer. Sometimes I miss a thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mamaof4 View Post
    I catch as much of it as I can. If you report it gets sent to my email and I can delete it and ban the spammer. Sometimes I miss a thread.
    Thanks for your response but I am sick and tired of this nonsense, something needs to be done to PREVENT this when it is to the extent of things now. How about a 24 hour clearance period to have someone look at a member who is trying to register so their IP address can be checked out and somehow verify if in fact this is a daycare provider or a real person. This is not minor anymore and I am furious...can you tell? How do I get in touch with the people in charge? After all mamaof4, I understand you are just a moderator and really don't have any control or say over the website and how it is run.

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    I admit the spamming has discouraged me from coming on as much as I used to as well!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2cuteboys View Post
    I admit the spamming has discouraged me from coming on as much as I used to as well!
    Same here. It's really super annoying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fun&care View Post
    Same here. It's really super annoying.
    And this thread just got bumped by spam...someone who posted a few hours ago too...so thanks ADMIN for doing your job of deleting and blocking them!!!!!

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    It's a free forum. Doesn't bother me. Don't open them....it's obvious when it's garbage. Newest example, box office movie under pregnancy heading? Not that hard to ignore. Free forums have very minimal supervision, a mod is not going to sit all day waiting to snag a spammer. Would you?

    IMO people come to the forum less because it's the same stuff rehashed over and over.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wonderwiper View Post
    It's a free forum. Doesn't bother me. Don't open them....it's obvious when it's garbage. Newest example, box office movie under pregnancy heading? Not that hard to ignore. Free forums have very minimal supervision, a mod is not going to sit all day waiting to snag a spammer. Would you?

    IMO people come to the forum less because it's the same stuff rehashed over and over.
    So because it's free it is okay is it? For morons to constantly spam? My issue is with the fact that when someone posts for advice their thread gets bumped off the home screen and they get no response. Just because something is free doesn't mean it should be of poor quality and that kind of opinion and attitude are part of the problem and reason things end up going to the dogs because people roll over and do nothing about it. It's like saying I only paid a dollar for my coffee so it's okay that it's less than mediocre. If a service isn't good then what's the point? This forum should be a pleasant experience for all and if it's sole purpose of being a forum for daycare providers and parents about childcare is suffering because spammers are constantly invading the space and causing people's threads to go unnoticed then that's just not okay. Am I supposed to just roll over and allow this to go on? So if someone "volunteers" their time to moderate the forums and isn't willing to go the distance then someone else needs to do it. If you can't do something properly don't do it at all. People come to the forum less because of all the drama Wonderwiper.....whic h hasn't been an issue of late. Less activity because members have left not just reduced the frequency in which they come due to repetitiveness.

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