Administrators, please?

[Irulan]

there's a lot of auto-bots out there that crawl boards and post things, sometimes faster than an admin can pull them down. You will not find any board out there that doesn't have this to some degree or another - unless they've got admin on board 24/7 in every time zone.

Admin here does a great job. I've got NO cause to complain. I know of a few boards where the bot-spam is rampant because the moderators only check it once a month or so.

[jobob]

This might be an interesting glimpse into our Admins' duties, when our own Heifzilla inadvertently stepped into the anti-spam web

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=30266

[PamNY]

Wow, I'm really surprised at this post. Truly, I think the administrators are aware, without our telling them, that spam is not a good thing. They do an excellent job of keeping things running smoothly.

There's virtually no way to completely eliminate problem posts from a forum like this. The few I've seen are removed quickly enough.

I suggest we thank the moderators for the good job they do in keeping this forum a useful resource for cyclists.

Pam

[jobob]

I think that's what we've been doing.

[snapdragen]

Someone was up at the crack 'o dawn to nuke the offending posts, sure wasn't me *yawn*.

As the other posters said, if you see an offending post, click the little red and white triangle to report it. The mods/admins receive notices when you do this....not to mention the sirens, flashing lights, helicopters overhead....it's really quite festive.

[Possegal]

I second or third or fourth - the thank you to folks here who do a great job of keeping things like that off the board. I'm curious, have you seen an uptick in the amount of it. My own completely unscientific observation - my hotmail account used to get a phishing email or two each week. Now, I get at least 5 a day. I have had that account for years, I know I haven't put the email out there anyplace new of late. I've attributed it to the times and have heard from others that they are noting a big change in volume. So I was just curious.

My fav was one that was clearly letting me know that my bank was about to close my account unless I logged in and cleared something up. But it was all in French. I'm pretty sure I don't have a bank account in France.

[snapdragen]

My fav was one that was clearly letting me know that my bank was about to close my account unless I logged in and cleared something up. But it was all in French. I'm pretty sure I don't have a bank account in France.

Ratz, foiled again!

[Heifzilla]

This might be an interesting glimpse into our Admins' duties, when our own Heifzilla inadvertently stepped into the anti-spam web

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=30266

I remember that.

I also think the admins do a great job here at keeping the spam down. yeah, every once in awhile something slips through, but in general I don't see much. I do understand how aggravating it is to see ANY spam...like we don't see enough commercials and spam in our mail boxes to begin with. But unfortunately, unless ALL posts are moderated before being allowed to be seen on the boards, there's just no way to prevent a little getting through sometimes.

[Aggie_Ama]

TxDoc- I didn't think you were complaining about the job they do, there was a ton of SPAM this morning! Some of us know what to do. We all learn sometime, right?

[OakLeaf]

I just scrolled past it and figured it'd be gone when I came back from my ride. Some of the spam that gets through here is pretty subtle. Yesterday's particular instance, it wasn't like the admins were going to miss it when they logged in.


ETA: which is why I think a lot of people thought the OP was snarky. No one needed to do anything to get the admins to notice 15 copies of an obvious spam message.

[PamNY]

I just scrolled past it and figured it'd be gone when I came back from my ride. Some of the spam that gets through here is pretty subtle. Yesterday's particular instance, it wasn't like the admins were going to miss it when they logged in.


ETA: which is why I think a lot of people thought the OP was snarky. No one needed to do anything to get the admins to notice 15 copies of an obvious spam message.

Yes, that was exactly my thought.

I moderate a group and people really don't realize what's involved. If you are 98 percent successful at something, everyone still natters on about the other two percent.

I also greatly prefer that problems/questions be sent to the moderator privately. In some cases (though probably not this one) that prevents a lot of problems.

I didn't intend to be obnoxious.