spam again
 

great job fodor's forum administrator's, your 1999 software security system doesn't work anymore. if your not solving the problem, you are part of it.frommer's, lonely planet, trip advisor, this never happen's!

There's plenty of spam on Trip Advisor: just read some of those reviews and you'll see.

Are you kidding? You think there is no spam on trip advisor? There is so much spam it's hard to find legit posts.

And your redundant posts complaining about spam are just another variety of spam.

What Kathie said. Stop posting here and start emailing the editors if it bothers you so much.

classic internet bullying by fodorites

second post in five days on spam is redundant? and thank you inakauaidavid baby. strong bully pulpit here. of note a half dozen notes to editors , zero response. have a nice day.


regards

wlke

First of all, yes, it's redundant. All you're doing is annoying an already annoyed board with more threads about spam.

Second, "bully pulpit" does not mean what you think it means.

why so angry? I guess the spam has been an issue for awhile, just came onto the forum a few days ago. so everyone else just lives with it. and shout's down anyone who brings it up? why not a more helpful civil tone? that seems counter to the whole purpose of the forum.

Where do you get that I'm angry? Or uncivil? I am telling you that complaining about spam here is not productive, only annoying. That is the most helpful thing you could possibly hear on this topic.

I agree with you wike it is extremely frustrating especially when there is a 17 hour time difference!! When I go to read the US forum in the evening, it is just full of spam.

that is exactly my point that people come to this forum and if they ask a question it gets buried! and doesn't get the helpful forum response, perhaps they should title their question spam etc.... ok newbe I'm annoying, and I'm annoying you! and annoying everyone eles who is being annoyed by the annoying spam, well, that's just annoying,to everyone else that want's to be annoyed. I am sorry that I bothered you, or anyone else on this forum. I was reaching out for information on route 66. sorry to bother everyone, wishing all love , light and happiness.

regards,safe travels

wlke

6.41pm NZ time, 10 spam threads so far this evening.

Nelsonion, please don't start

dukey1 funny. and I'm not saying a word! have a great day all.

wlke, I agree with your sentiment. Fodor's apparent inability to implement basic spam protection on this site (e.g. checks for spam links in message titles, implementing a waiting period for new accounts before posting is allowed etc) has left us scratching our heads. We don't even bother with the travel forums at night on this site any more, until they're cleaned up in the morning.

But posting HERE doesn't help, fix, change, improve . . . anything. There is nothing any of us can do about it.

E-mail the monitors and complain to them, not kvetch on the boards.

Just click on the little yellow triangle in the upper right hand corner of the spam post and move on.

The triangle thingy does not work for me, the pop-up screen is placed such that one can not "SUBMIT" and there is no way to move the screen. There is one that needs to be triangled right now and I can't. Blaaaaaaaaah

UPDATE; fodor's got back to me with, "we are trying to combat it, but the spammer's have more resource's"


regards

wlke

It's 10:15 pacific time, and no spam yet.

I haven't had any trouble hitting the Submit button, BTW.

>>It's 10:15 pacific time, and no spam yet.<<

there were several -- but they've been deleted . . .

10:31P Pacific time and there are a few. I'm sure they will be gone soon.

19 on the first page this morning, and all of the "new Topics" are spam.

Did everyone notice this morning that there was almost no spam when they logged in? That's thanks to our wonderful new moderating team at Internet Brands. I think you're all going to be pleased at the improvements in the forums in the coming months.

Good news, Doug!

Doug -- maybe by the time you logged on -- but early this AM there was even more spam than typical.

Oh -- that wasn't meant to be a knock at all. Just that the spam issue isn't resolved.

Yes, it was filled with spam this AM.

nope - not any better this morning (6-7am NY time).

It was a long holiday weekend, so I'm not surprised there was a lot. We haven't solved the filter problem yet, but the moderators are doing a wonderful job. That's the point I was trying to make. Previously, we weren't seeing spam cleaned up until 10:30 or 11 EDT. This is a huge improvement. But still, baby steps.

Maybe Zuckerberg could lend you a few hackers to help resolve this.

It is 2 AM and the board is filled with spam. Maybe it is time to go to Gamma testing.