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Postby patience_and_healing » 13 Jan 2018, 14:53

A poster named Henryirota has made multiple spam posts on the forum. Please delete them. It's easier to post here than to find each and every post and report them. Thanks!
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Re: Spam posts

Postby pinpin » 14 Jan 2018, 14:30

Thank you, I will check this now
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Re: Spam posts

Postby patience_and_healing » 17 Jan 2018, 11:06

There are more posts appearing in other sub forums as well.
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11/19: Botox to pelvic floor
8/20: Botox to pelvic floor in new location.
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Re: Spam posts

Postby pinpin » 19 Jan 2018, 01:37

Could you please point me to some affected topics. Thank you
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Re: Spam posts

Postby dmcff » 20 Jan 2018, 07:02

There are spam posts in these sections of the forum: Anal Skin Tag/Sentinel Pile and Crohn's/Colitis & IBS - poster PhilippeEnvet. Subject line is "chnlove scam".
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Re: Spam posts

Postby chachacha » 20 Jan 2018, 08:35

Pinpin, I always use the forum by going into "unread posts", and today (as has been the case for a couple of weeks), there are several spam posts. Today there is the usual one from Philip Envet and others with subjects titled, Money Day, Steam Trading Card ....... and one in Arabic or Russian typeface. Maybe if you look in the "unread posts" they'll be easier to find? I have no idea why some people just want to ruin things for others by doing things like this, especially in a medical forum where people are suffering.
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Re: Spam posts

Postby dmcff » 20 Jan 2018, 08:58

It's mostly Russian spam, I think. The spammers look for signs that a forum may be going into disuse with low moderator activity, then they can take it over and make it into a spam center that can be used for various purposes, not all of them commercial, but certainly none of them medical.

It's a real violation of human rights, and should be outlawed.
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Re: Spam posts

Postby chachacha » 22 Jan 2018, 08:38

Pinpin. I'm not sure if you ever go into the forums via the "unread posts" option, but it currently has at least ten pages of spam posts (didn't bother going further back), mostly by someone called brendacep. I can certainly use the forum by going sub-forum by sub-forum, but worry that the site's bandwidth, or usage (not a techie, so not familiar with the terms), may become more costly, or run out of room because of all of the spam posts. I hope that you can get this sorted.
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Re: Spam posts

Postby pinpin » 22 Jan 2018, 12:20

Hello,

I have cleared all this now. Thank you. I would really appreciate if some of you could take a moderator role additionally to me and others. As it is nearly impossible to login everyday for me now. I will also look into advanced registration routine.

Please let me know if anyone would like to take on moderator role, would be really nice!
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Re: Spam posts

Postby dmcff » 22 Jan 2018, 12:26

Pinpin, I look in at the forum most days, so could do some moderator tasks if needed.
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