What To Do When Someone is SPAMMING THIS FORUM

Here is another word of warning too - if you are even thinking about checking those links or downloading you may want to think again.

You might get something very evil on your computer if you do.

I understand but commenting on their thread will not make them go away any faster. All it does is brings the threads back to the top of the forum so these idiots get even more exposure before they are banned.

If we all just ignore them and report the post they will be gone soon enough.

That's because the mods are too busy deleting your threads and posts -- the spammers will have to wait.

Oh Mal.

How I miss your true humour.

Not that this is important to this thread, I just want to get but it off my chest a similar experience. I was simurly attacked on ezine becuse a person with a simular product falsely reported on his computition to get their articles banned or whatever. Frustrating to say the least.

Hope that sort of thing isn't happening here, although it appears that the potential for that sort of abuse exists.

Well that takes the fun out of it!

I usually try to quote Monty Python in my complaints..."Spam and eggs", "Egg Bacon and Spam","egg, bacon, sausage and spam"...and so on.

~keith

LOL! But when you see a troll posting thread after thread with download links for WSOs or something equally despicable, all the while rubbing his warty little hands together and jumping up and down in glee, it's hard to stay calm and wait for him to be banned.

Paul,

I was just trying to make you look good. I know you would never make a mistake. It's always the computers fault or a software error.

LOL Good point. :p



Sorry guys.

I was a little testy this morning.

Not to be making excuses, but I did have surgery yesterday and I am about out of pain pills. Dammit... When the pain pills are gone, all I will have left to keep my sanity is my children, who may be beaten quicker and more frequently than normal. :p


p.s. For those concerned about possible abuse... It is a joke...

Just out of curiosity....has anyone ever been banned for doing that?

I would think it would...but would like to verify before opening mouth.

I heard a big thunk, I think it might have hit someone. Maybe it wasn't as little as you thought...

Thanks for the reminder, Jill. I've used that little red triangle quite a few times - for spammers and also for new members who post a bunch of similar one-liners in the space of a few minutes just to get their post count up :rolleyes:.

The mods are great about quickly getting rid of them once they've been reported. I do understand the temptation to respond to them as they are so irritating, but reporting them is easy and far more effective.

I bumped my own thread. lol

I am such a little spammer.

Here ya go Ken



Have a Great Day!
Michael

Rich, If that was the case, you'd have been banned for posting a recruiting ad in a discussion section.

Paying for War Room access gets you the privileges that go with it. It does not exempt you from the rules.


Paul

That's right.

They like you to use the WSO section and pay for it like everyone else has too.

Really? When I did that two years ago, I got banned for a week.

Primarily because we have an ongoing and persistent problem with people starting threads about "why doesn't someone make THIS product?" when they have already made it. Then, when people act interested and he can see the market potential, HEY PRESTO there's a WSO.

That's advertising, not discussion, and it's against the rules. Trouble is, sometimes it's hard to tell whether someone's advertising or honestly thinking about creating a new product - and mistakes get made. Oh well. Suck it up and live with it.

Unless, of course, you were actually advertising and deserved to get your thread deleted. In which case it serves you right. :p

Don't even joke about that idea. We recently banned a prominent member for 30 days for advocating spamming this forum. What makes you think we won't just remove you entirely if you do that?


Paul

A thread about a method or strategy will run just fine - until you mention it's going to be/may be/ could be your WSO. That makes it promotional.

A thread is where you share information - a WSO is where you sell it.

kay

There was an incident this morning with what appeared to look like an automated bot. So I devilishly spammed my own post to bring it back up. It was easier and quicker to give a bump than to start something new.

You gots to give it a royal bump for the win.

"The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England."

- Bruce Oldfield


Oh crap. That didn't work either.

Remember - don't quote the spammers!

Members are Moderators:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...moderator.html

Give a hoot. Don't pollute. And go ahead and moderate.

My Mook bought me a dress once. It was way too small.

He's not a psychopath, but he is a bit loony.

Ugly toys? what?

You are welcome.

Any idea what the weather is like in Bangladesh this time of year?

I'm not sure if there is a pilot behind that wheel.

What good would that do? That person who's been doing the "Alexa Smith" postings will get banned and then create a whole new account and repeat the process.

It's just a question of ignoring them. It's not foolproof, but it's a strategy.

LOL, the irony of it: I've "gone viral", apparently, and I'm not even selling/promoting anything here.

The thing to do is report those posts, and the moderators will remove them.

Yes - you can put people on an "ignore" list (which is what I did myself, a long time ago, under his real name, with the indivudual who's now making all the posts about me - and that meant as a bonus I didn't see his private messages, which said the same things, as well his posts. Not so easy when he keeps changing his damn name all the time, admittedly ... but at least that way we get the rather weird irony that it's someone remaining anonymous who's questioning the identity of someone who made the (entirely unnecessary) mistake of using her real name here! ).

Click on "User CP" (top left) and then "edit options", and scroll down the left-hand side a little - under "settings and options" you'll see "edit ignore list".

Thanks, that's all I needed.

Nothing is worth replying to. I reiterate this forum is about internet marketing and everything that goes along with it.

Personally, I don't care who people SAY they are or who they REALLY are. What concerns me is the value of the information that they're offering. Sure, there are a lot of people here who aren't who they say they are, but who cares?

It's about the money and earning an honest living. If you're really a guy posing as a woman on this forum I don't care -- neither should anybody else.

Not really, but that was more or less how he saw it, anyway.

This is a person in some very stressful and unpleasant circumstances, whose thought-processes (as so many have noticed) sometimes aren't altogether rational, for a variety of unfortunate reasons, some of which are actually not his own fault, to be fair.

I bear him no ill-will at all. I tried to help him and was ultimately unable to, and eventually had to draw a line.

There was a lot I didn't originally know about him, and when I first started talking with him I was only 18/19, myself, and I might handle such a situation altogether differently now.

I've never been or felt judgmental about him, or about his circumstances - not to his face and not behind his back. I hope his circumstances improve, though I suspect at the moment the opposite may be the case. I encourage the many others here who know who he is and a little about "the story" not to think ill of him, in spite of his behavior here. I wish him no harm at all, albeit that (like so many others here) I do wish he'd stop posting!

But saying this doesn't help (which is partly why I haven't said more about this in the past), when someone isn't altogether responsible for his actions.

I haven't spoken with him or replied to him for a very long time, now, but he has - intermittently - contacted me with fulsome apologies for his actions here (doubtless entirely sincere, at the times they were sent) and assurances of no repetition, which have indeed typically been followed by long silences from him ... until his next "posting outbreak".

It all depends "how things are going for him", clearly.

I'd really be very grateful if people would please simply "report" his posts, not reply to them, not "quote" them, and not even keep messaging me about them (very grateful indeed though I am for all the unreservedly kind support, I hasten to add!! ).

There it is: I have no more to add.

No problem at all - don't worry! I was quite pleased to have an opportunity to explain what's going on to a huge number of people wondering. On the one hand, one doesn't necessarily want to draw too much attention to it, but on the other hand, it was convenient to say something. Your question kindly provided me with an opportunity to try to strike that "balance".

yeah, spam, don't you just love it?

it's the price you pay for popularity...

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it's been very crazy today - man oh man, I don't envy the mods, I really don't.

Just ignore it and enjoy reporting him. He is a very sad and deranged man who clearly has nothing to do all day but make up nonsense and spend all day creating new accounts, hiding behind proxies, to try and discredit people.

The fact is it's a very sad reflection on a very sad man. I feel desperately sorry for him and I'm extremely grateful I didn't wind up with the deep rooted issues he so clearly has.

Eventually he'll have to stop to drink some water, eat some food and have a sleep. He's been at this for ages now. Pity the man, I certainly do. Heaven help his next door neighbours as well.

Besides, the longer he does this, the more people wind up laughing at him. He just doesn't know when to stop bless him.

If only Stafford was closer to London, Richard. I'd be round in a shot (or for a shot, or two...or the bottle)

I have three children under the age of 13 in my house. I have my own personal Bermuda Triangle. :p