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Post by Mattyboo1 on Nov 21, 2015 21:18:22 GMT -5
It is unfortunate to see the spam you are dealing with, I do not know why they are targeting your forum, did the administrator of your forum promote anybody else or is he literally the only staff, maybe I can give some suggestions.
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Post by mattyboo1 on Nov 21, 2015 21:19:48 GMT -5
I'm the user who just posted as guest, is houdiniderek your only staff?
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Post by zania on Nov 22, 2015 11:15:09 GMT -5
Hi Matty. HoudiniDerek is the only staff member we have, unfortunately. We've tried everything we can to reach him, but he just isn't responding. We've even suggested in the past that he appoint someone else since he had been away for a long time, but he didn't want to do that. It wouldn't be fair to ask anyone among the ProBoards staff to try and force one of our accounts into being an admin or moderator without HoudiniDerek being around, so we're really at a loss with how often the spam keeps coming up these days.
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Post by mattyboo1 on Nov 23, 2015 7:57:38 GMT -5
That's unfortunate, he likely will never return to the forums, so actually I do suggest you guys start up a new forum.
I have no idea why the spam is targeting this site though, I have never seen anything like that in my site before.
This comes up all the time on the clash of clans forum ( spam )
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Post by zania on Nov 23, 2015 9:55:08 GMT -5
All forums have security flaws that can result in spammers (more often than not bots) creating accounts and then posting their junk en masse all over the forum. Just about any forum can be targeted, and it's a reason why phpBB actually does updates regularly to combat the spam. I've got another forum waiting in the wings, but if we do move over there I'd want it to be a decision made by the majority of the active members. That forum has been sitting for about 2 years and has not had any kind of spam.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 6:45:06 GMT -5
I think we've all learned that if we do move, we obvioulsy need more than one Admin!
Sigh. I don't know. I have big feelings about moving and losing all the good stuff here!
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Post by zania on Nov 24, 2015 7:56:58 GMT -5
I don't think we'll lose anything here unless HoudiniDerek decides to shut this forum down, which would be unfortunate, but something does have to be done about all of the spam.
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Post by amyk on Nov 24, 2015 13:58:13 GMT -5
I'm sick and tired of the spam, and I'm ready to move.
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Post by Lilla Weneda on Nov 24, 2015 15:19:58 GMT -5
Do you want to build new forum from basic or move to one, who already exist?
If you want to build new one, I can try to make graphic for you.
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