I'm seeing a huge increase of posts through this site that are non-learning related. Is there any way to report these or reduce them? Over the last two days, I've deleted 26 posts from the same person about the same thing and on average, I'm now receiving more non-learning related messages than ones about learning.
I'm hoping the e-learning Heroe team could comment on whether there's any plans to try and manage this. Thanks.
I've seen the same thing, and i've tried to help identify them by flagging the posts when they show up. It seems like it wouldnt be too hard to just disable or ban an account that is spamming the forums all day though...
Another solution would be to actually visit this guys site. At a predetermined time. Around a 1000 of us or more. Just one visit. Instant DoS attack (only legal). See how that works for him/them...
I don't think he'll come back to post again after that...
Another - more civilized - way is to write to their hosting provider and let em know...
Ketty May is a big contributor. 10 posts today alone. She was the one who sent the 26 as well. Have thought about emailing but decided it might not be a good idea to identify myself as you never know who they actually are.
Thanks for voicing this concern and highlighting that particular spammer. Please utilize the "flag" option on content you believe is suspect. That ensures that it'll hit our moderator's radar quickly and if we deem it as spam it educates our automated spam prevention system.
I have banned that particular user as well since all of her posts were deemed to be spam.
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I've seen the same thing, and i've tried to help identify them by flagging the posts when they show up. It seems like it wouldnt be too hard to just disable or ban an account that is spamming the forums all day though...
*Irritated*
Another solution would be to actually visit this guys site. At a predetermined time. Around a 1000 of us or more. Just one visit. Instant DoS attack (only legal). See how that works for him/them...
I don't think he'll come back to post again after that...
Another - more civilized - way is to write to their hosting provider and let em know...
Ketty May is a big contributor. 10 posts today alone. She was the one who sent the 26 as well. Have thought about emailing but decided it might not be a good idea to identify myself as you never know who they actually are.
Thanks for voicing this concern and highlighting that particular spammer. Please utilize the "flag" option on content you believe is suspect. That ensures that it'll hit our moderator's radar quickly and if we deem it as spam it educates our automated spam prevention system.
I have banned that particular user as well since all of her posts were deemed to be spam.
Thanks Brian for letting me know the process for managing these types of messages. Good to know you have something in place.
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