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I can't see any report buttons, nor any buttons to send a message to the mods.
I'm a mod on another large forum, and found a link to this post: Re: Is there a mac compatible blu ray player?
It refers to a piece of software we've been having a lot of spam about, and it appears they linked to a link on this site to avoid any spamfilters, apple.com being a reputable domain.
Can someone deal to this?
Someone alerted the hosts or the hosts saw it on their own, the link no longer works.
Hi Someone_Somewhere,
Thanks for bringing this up. It seems that this post Re: Is there a mac compatible blu ray player? has already been removed.
Many thanks, and keep posting here 🙂.
Regards,
Ian.
It was from 2012 - they didn't see it on their own!
Still nothing on a way to report posts, though.
You have to get to Level 2 (150 points) before you can report posts. Most spam, such as the Indian 'black magic' ones, get reported pretty promptly by higher-level posters. If you are concerned about a particular post you can say so in this forum - a higher level poster can then pass it on. I shouldn't worry about ordinary spam.
That's the reason, thanks.
Because I've legitimately been in many Blu-ray topics, those topics get bumped to the top of my Discussions list every time yet another Mac-Go spammer adds a post pretending to be a user asking about which player software to get, or just saying how great it is. Always with another link to the software, even if the topic already has links to that same software in it. I report them for removal whenever I see them. However, it still gets the effect they want; the topic gets bumped to the top of a forum list where more users will open it and see the links to Mac-Go still in the topic.
Personally, I would locate and remove every single topic or post on these forums with the words Mac-Go or links to their software in it. These forums aren't a place for them to advertise for free anymore than it is for any other vendor. It's also against the Terms of Agreement to advertise here.
No advertising. Do not use the Site to sell or market your products to others and do not post a URL unless it directly answers a user's question. If any portion of your Submission, including any posted URL, results in any accrual of compensation or benefit to you, you must note this in your post by stating, "I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link." As well, the following are not allowed:
That's the response I'm taking where I moderate, but there's dozens of bits of software that fall under that category, and some actually seem to be recommended by legit users, making it a bit more difficult.
Deleting the old stuff also helps train the spamfilter, stopping the new spam from bumping.
Pretty sure almost everywhere has 'no spamming' in the ToS...
Yup, exactly what you said. 🙂
I saw the thread when it was up. In the context of the thread wasn't it a legitimate reply ?
To quote your ToU:
No advertising. Do not use the Site to sell or market your products to others and do not post a URL unless it directly answers a user's question. If any portion of your Submission, including any posted URL, results in any accrual of compensation or benefit to you, you must note this in your post by stating, "I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link." As well, the following are not allowed:
(my emphasis)
Google says he has 39 mentions on the site, 20 of which include the software. I'd nuke that as spam.
My concern is if it properly answered the question it would be hard to pick up and report as spam especially if you don't know the person is connected to the product. And if it did answer the question isn't the proper course of action to tell the person he must disclose links to the product ?
You're presuming spammers read mail sent to them. They don't. The post would sit there until you either forgot about it or decided they weren't going to reply and deleted it.
Once again, did it legitimately answer the question ? If it did I have a hard time calling it spam.
Reasonably well.
Maybe we have different definitions of spam. Any content you're paid to post by someone that's not been approved (e.g. official reps) is spam in my book.
Is that email not spam because, hey, you really do want some stock tips?
Re: Exchange email not working with IOS 8. has a spam post from kerrydoe72. 😟
How do I report spam on your forums?
