Spam Private Messages

**OakLeaf** · 08-18-2009, 07:51 AM

Yep, more than once.

She usually sends out a barrage of messages once a week or so, with enough content that you can tell it's either a live person or a very sophisticated bot, but barely on topic and often reviving old threads. It's really annoying when I click on "New Posts" and there are a dozen threads with replies by abbey.barclay - if one of the threads is one that I'm interested in, there's no way to know whether there have been real replies posted without clicking on the thread.

Edit: apparently she's been banned, now. Thanks, mods.

**BikingNurse** · 08-18-2009, 09:09 AM

I don't understand the need to use a private message about the forum. It appears to be a legit forum, but I would prefer he didn't use PM to promote it to complete strangers on another forum. It just feels sneaky.[/QUOTE]

Sneaky, thats what I was thinking. I didn't think much about the first PM but the second I was like .... "Dude, you already sent me this. People won't want to even bother if youre gonna harrass us"

**Zen** · 08-18-2009, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by Trek420

I didn't get one. I feel left out

I'll send you mine.

**KSH** · 08-18-2009, 01:23 PM

I got a PM from him too about the same thing.

**lph** · 08-18-2009, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by jobob

I wasn't going to follow a link that someone out of the blue pm'd to me.

It could have been free, but from my perspective that doesn't matter one bit. It was an unsolicited advertisement.

No, I agree that it was mis-use, or at least, undesirable use, of the pm system, I was just questioning the bit about "misusing the forum for commercial interests". I felt the content was fine, the placing and the multiple messages was not.

But I'm fine with people posting general invites to other forums, I don't find that inappropriate.

**withm** · 08-18-2009, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by OakLeaf

Yep, more than once.

She usually sends out a barrage of messages once a week or so, with enough content that you can tell it's either a live person or a very sophisticated bot, but barely on topic and often reviving old threads. It's really annoying when I click on "New Posts" and there are a dozen threads with replies by abbey.barclay - if one of the threads is one that I'm interested in, there's no way to know whether there have been real replies posted without clicking on the thread.

Edit: apparently she's been banned, now. Thanks, mods.

One of the best features here at TE is the ability to put whole threads, or individuals on "IGNORE." That way if someone who posts stuff you don't like those posts won't show up when you click on "New Posts.> It's my favorite tool... whole threads about tv shows? gone! I love it.

**Miranda** · 08-18-2009, 08:06 PM

Yea... the thing I thought was weird about it was the activity on the other forum. I didn't click the link in my PM. I found the forum via google in a seperate window. Here on TE, you need to be registered to do a "search". There you do not. When I "searched" the user name... no posts... other than mention of it in a forum member that had joined by invite etc. Sometimes the peeps on those forums to receive their ad-min / marketing pay is to have "X" # profile of users / volume... to lure advertisers to pay etc. Based upon the potential clientele they will expose. A bit explotive.

**snapdragen** · 08-18-2009, 09:04 PM

Wait....admins get paid?

Hey Jeff? Susan? Adventure Girl and I have a question.....

**wannaduacentury** · 08-19-2009, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by momtohanna

Not sure how to handle this, was trying to find an admin to send it to directly, but maybe you can help me.

I am receiving spam private messages from a user.

Every 5 minutes this person is sending me a message about another forum. Is there a way I can ban this user from sending me messages or get their message privileges revoked or something?

This is the person sending me the messages: http://forums.teamestrogen.com/member.php?u=9036

Thanks.

I received one as well last week, but only one. Not sure about it. Jenn

**Trek420** · 08-19-2009, 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by Zen

I'll send you mine.

Thanks, but no thanks

**rachgreen** · 08-20-2009, 12:30 PM

dont worry-- theyre good at catching them if this is happening to any of you out there. just post something about it and theyll see it.

**jobob** · 08-20-2009, 01:32 PM

Who do you mean by "they" ?

**ASammy1** · 08-20-2009, 01:37 PM

I've received more than one from that guy, but just deleted him. It's annoying, but he was polite. Thanks for banning him, admins!

**Geonz** · 08-21-2009, 08:39 AM

Me too... yea, the content was "fine" -- but then, *why* the PM route? Why spam? Something didn't smell right about it. Maybe it was a hacker experimenting with a mass PM program and planning nefarious things later...

**DarcyInOregon** · 08-21-2009, 10:25 AM

Hmmm, guess I was the only one who went over to the other site. I like it because it has a diversity of people, the ability to have more photos, one can blog, and the site is well monitored by the administrators. I don't have much time to spend in these type of discussion forums because my days are pretty busy. After enough years the content becomes repetitive on all of the cycling forums, blah blah blah saddles ... butt pain ... bonking ... what to eat ... crashed ... clipless pedals ... blah blah blah, however I do think the other site is just as nice as Team Estrogen.

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