Another plea to the moderators!!

[jonsie]

Just got home from work @ 7.40am and a quick browse on the forum found 13 spam posts. No doubt there will be many more later this morning. This is now beyond a joke!
Can we please put a system in place whereby a 1st post will not appear on a thread until it has been vetted by the moderators. This has been going on for months and months but is now bordering on the ridiculous.
Please, please sort it out.
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I haven't flagged them individually and I refuse to look for more :womanindifferent: :womanindifferent:

[adamtemp64]

seconded but have flagged them all
But I feel 1 2 3 moderated post

[Anonymous]

Agree, I've been quiet lately as there is just too much Cyrillic and Chinese text or long rambling nonsense posts to wade past
Why this tidal wave of crap?

[adamtemp64]

I guess the word is out this is an easy forum to target

[adamtemp64]

and it gets worse today

[Anonymous]

Yep, as a mod of the old 3G forum we could get over 1000 spam messages a day.
Our Church website even gets spam comments.

[Anonymous]

One here at 6.30 this morning. Doesn't say much for o2's spam filters.
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=60859

[Anonymous]

and my post about the quantity of spam on another forum has been deleted from this thread :robotmad:

[adamtemp64]

just been contacted by pm by one of the site admin they are taking a look at the issue (after I sent a dm on twitter)

[jonsie]

Nice one Adam, it's about time they acknowledged the problem. But they need to do more than just look at it, they need to take positive action.
A big step forward would be to scrutinise first-time posts. At the moment it is far too easy to join and to start spamming straight away.
This morning was particularly bad and they must think the O2 forum is an easy and lucrative source to peddle their wares.