Help Spam Problems

[procswrongfoot]

RE: gloscricket.proboards.com

l am contacting you in total frustration.

Our forum (as quoted above) is unfortunately being infiltrated by Spam nonsense, which seems to be getting worse. (If you have a quick look at the forum you will soon understand what l mean).

Sadly, the originator of our forum "snowy", who was also the moderator, has disappeared and cast us adrift (he has had no involvement for at least the past 5 years and most probably even longer).

Accordingly, we have absolutely no way of removing such garbage from our forum, which l guess can only lead to other Spam users deciding to join in.

In the circumstances could you please help. I would be prepared to become the moderator of our forum if this is the easiest way of having some control over removing Spam posts.

Look forward to hearing from you.

[Retread]

Hi procswrongfoot

ProBoards Admins* are online Monday through Friday from 9am-5pm PST/PDT (with the exception of some US holidays).

I'm sure when they are online, they'll take some time to investigate that forum and decide on the best path forward.

[Scott]

procswrongfoot, I cleaned up the spam that I saw. If I missed something, please post a link to it.

[procswrongfoot]

Scott

Very many thanks for getting rid of our current Spam problem.

For my own benefit, please could you confirm the correct procedures to follow. If (or more realistically when) we suffer further problems with spam, do I take it that we should refer to your Support Team in each instance in order for action to be taken centrally. More than happy to do so, even though l will feel somewhat guilty if there becomes a need to regularly bother you with this type of issue.

We are still left with the problem of having no moderator. However, given the nature of our forum it is probably not a strong pressing issue, although obviously it would be better to have our own nominated moderator (just in case).

Anyway, once again many thanks for your prompt action.

[Scott]

procswrongfoot, it appears the forum has been operating fine other than the spam issue. If it happens again, just let us know and we'll go from there.

[procswrongfoot]

RE: gloscricket.proboards.com

Sorry to trouble you yet again, but another spam post has occurred (didn't take them long).

Please could you delete the spam post from this morning, just after 11.00 (20th)....posted by minguyen23797.

Sincerely hope that this is not going to turn into a tedious ongoing problem. If so, then we will most probably need to re-visit our problem of having no moderator to rely upon.

[Scott]

procswrongfoot, I removed the spam. You should be good from this point forward.

[procswrongfoot]

Scott
Once again, many thanks for your help.

[procswrongfoot]

RE: gloscricket.proboards.com
Once again, humble apologies for needing to trouble you again.
Another spam post arrived early this morning....from thanhle12345. Please could you arrange for this spam post to be removed.
Not sure if there is some simple device that can be added to our forum to try and prevent further spam posts from invading our forum.

[Scott]

procswrongfoot, sorry about this. That member already had a registered account on the forum prior to the measures I put in place to stop the spam. They had not made any posts at that time which would indicate their intentions. Their post has been removed.

[procswrongfoot]

Scott
Your a star. Many thanks for your continued help on this matter.

[maranyc]

I am also having increasing spam posts recently on my very small proboard.  I  have the same issue of a long missing board owner, but I am a moderator and able to ban the spamming member or guest and delete the posts.  I sympathize with you and hopefully you can get some help....in order to gain some control!

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Sept 26, 2020 12:25:33 GMT -8 maranyc said:

I am also having increasing spam posts recently on my very small proboard.  I  have the same issue of a long missing board owner, but I am a moderator and able to ban the spamming member or guest and delete the posts.  I sympathize with you and hopefully you can get some help....in order to gain some control!

Hi maranyc

If you currently have spam issues on a forum with an absentee owner, please feel free to create your own thread and the ProBoards Admins can investigate and take corrective actions.

[maranyc]

Thanks for your reply...so far I am still able to control the spam but will consider that for future reference!!