MONITORS-spammers have taken over
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Second the suggestion for adding an expiration date to posts. They should still be retrieved and read, but not added too. This will help with some of the spam and also prevent wasted advice when you notice, too late, that the thread is very old.
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On the contrary, our monitors are constantly looking through the forums, especially being on the lookout for spam. What I said was that writing a single post in the forums is not the best way to alert us to an issue with spam. The best way is to report spam posts, which come back overnight. (Sadly, we are only human and aren't all working 24 hours a day.) However, Amanda is on this and is working hard every day to take down spam and ban the posters, and we will continue to do that. It's an ongoing battle, but you'll see spam posts accumulate every morning, and then they will quickly go away as soon as Amanda makes her sweep. And she's not working alone.
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Amanda and Doug can't work 24/7/365, but a computer program can. Add to the posting routine an algorithm that could work like this:
Is this a first post on the day a new member joins? No --> Post. Yes --> Is there a link? No --> Post Yes --> Delay posting for manual review in the morning.
Show this to your programmer and ask that it be done.
Triangling to get mods' attention.
Is this a first post on the day a new member joins? No --> Post. Yes --> Is there a link? No --> Post Yes --> Delay posting for manual review in the morning.
Show this to your programmer and ask that it be done.
Triangling to get mods' attention.
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This morning, It's gotten out of hand completely. Can't even find the legitimate posts! This forum is not the first to be inundated, but others have responded more quickly and effectively at the code/system level. Guess Fodor's doesn't value their regular posters enough to throw at the problem the finances, technical expertise, and time needed to stop the spam for good.
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Doug, I appreciate what a hassle this is for you all. It must not be fun to come into work every morning and clean out the Spam first thing. However, I frequent other forums, travel, medical, hobby-related, and none of them have this problem. Why is the Fodors US Board the target of all of this and what do all these other websites, some of which are your competitors, doing that Fodors isn't?
There has to be an answer better than "wait a couple of hours and we will clean it up." What is the long term strategy for this? Over the last month it has only gotten worse.
There has to be an answer better than "wait a couple of hours and we will clean it up." What is the long term strategy for this? Over the last month it has only gotten worse.
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