I get so many "male enhancement" and "hot girl" spams it's amazing, particularly since I'm female...!
Terry and Jo said
04:43 PM Nov 15, 2013
Alie and Jim,
Did you get this through private message here on RV Dreams? If so, you might want to contact Howard and Linda with the username of the spammer. So far this morning, I've not personally received any and haven't yet seen it on the open forums themselves.
Terry
GENECOP said
08:12 PM Nov 15, 2013
The last couple of days I have banned two IP addresses....Furniture store spam and another Cabinetry both appeared to be from England....Terry and I can not delete or ban PM spammers only Board posters....
SnowGypsy said
09:32 PM Nov 15, 2013
I'm confused as to why it isn't as easy to ban PM spammers as it is Board posters. I haven't had trouble with either here.
GENECOP said
12:27 AM Nov 16, 2013
Our basic moderator control only allows us action Via the boards and public postings....these Spammers are banned because we continually patrol the boards and members can also alert us with a .PM...Some spammers will join the Forum and go direct to PM Spam without hitting the boards, we have no way of knowing about these unless we are informed by the recipient...
SnowGypsy said
01:46 AM Nov 16, 2013
Good information. I know a couple of times early in the morning, I have seen spam on the board but wasn't sure how to report it. Thanks.
Terry and Jo said
03:11 AM Nov 16, 2013
If a spammer uses only private messaging, only Howard and Linda have the "rights" to ban them. When they hit, they usually hit numerous usernames, and even though Gene and I can go to the spammers profile, there isn't a way for us to ban their IP. We could possibly mess them up in some way, but we can't hit their IP. We had one a year or so ago that was posting in the forums about lights and they were out of China. I'd ban their IP and then the next thing I knew, they would be back again. Evidently they had access to multiple IP addresses and only Howard could address that in some way.
Terry
bjoyce said
04:22 AM Nov 16, 2013
Howard must have handled it since I also saw the spam message about bridal dresses. I didn't worry about notifying anyone since I know these things get handled on this forum. We have diligent and wonderful moderators.
Got some spam talking about bridal dresses..
Alie and Jim,
Did you get this through private message here on RV Dreams? If so, you might want to contact Howard and Linda with the username of the spammer. So far this morning, I've not personally received any and haven't yet seen it on the open forums themselves.
Terry
If a spammer uses only private messaging, only Howard and Linda have the "rights" to ban them. When they hit, they usually hit numerous usernames, and even though Gene and I can go to the spammers profile, there isn't a way for us to ban their IP. We could possibly mess them up in some way, but we can't hit their IP. We had one a year or so ago that was posting in the forums about lights and they were out of China. I'd ban their IP and then the next thing I knew, they would be back again. Evidently they had access to multiple IP addresses and only Howard could address that in some way.
Terry