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rokie221
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Spam

Post by rokie221 »

Insane amount of spam on every board.... 🙄
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thboy
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Re: Spam

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I reported some of the posts yesterday and today. I see that others are reporting the posts as well.

Accounts seem to be:
EddiePlomi
MiguelFam
Nickfex
ShawnEXOMI
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kiwibop
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Re: Spam

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Yeah, I reported about 20-30 yesterday too - and EddiePlomi was still on-line at that stage so I sent him a couple of love letters . . . asshole was the nicest thing I called him
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Re: Spam

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ShawnEXOMI and Programmer4u this afternoon. Programmer4u is new today.
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Re: Spam

Post by major77 »

I have contacted Admin about the spam problems...
As a moderator I can´t delete userprofiles...

Hopefylly Admin can figure it out.
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Re: Spam

Post by HrnMntMan »

I was so hopeful you could delete a user profile. Thank you for all the effort.
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Re: Spam

Post by georgekenedy »

I have cleaned up the forum. It was 1 account that spammed alot and is banned.
Keep report spammers!
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Re: Spam

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georgekenedy wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 3:57 am I have cleaned up the forum. It was 1 account that spammed alot and is banned.
Keep report spammers!
Thanks!
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Re: Spam

Post by kiwibop »

Good work George and Major - appreciated!! And yeah, I report everything straight away - useful being in NZ in a different time zone to most people
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Re: Spam

Post by georgekenedy »

We do it together :D
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Re: Spam

Post by thboy »

Many spam messages for the last three days.
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Re: Spam

Post by midwestchub »

Spam is back. Can a moderator please start banning IPs, domains, and/or keywords? This is ridiculous
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Re: Spam

Post by georgekenedy »

midwestchub wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 1:35 am Spam is back. Can a moderator please start banning IPs, domains, and/or keywords? This is ridiculous
There is no function available to do that, i have to manually delete all topics and ban users...
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Re: Spam

Post by midwestchub »

Eesh, sorry mate. Thank you for doing it
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Re: Spam

Post by mRuss »

Looks like we got another big dose of spam, guys. If you want a hand cleaning it up going forward I'm willing to help.

Cheers,
Russ.
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