Significant Increase in Spam Accounts

[Stephan Whelan]

Hi everyone - just to let you know that we are experiencing a signifI can’t uptick in spam accounts registering and trying to post on the forums. We deploy a number of tools on the site to counter such threats - we get hundreds a day - however a small number do sneak through.

You can do your bit though - if you see a spam post please report it by using the “Report” button under each post on the forums. That creates a report for the admin and moderating team to take a look at in more detail. While we aim to be proactive in tackling spam, every member here can help!

Thanks everyone and appreciate the help to keep this forum clean!

 

[kyah0523]

Yeah, lots of fake shipping notifications and the various ED/cheap pills ads. A couple more nefarious ones have come through like crypto/bank phishing attempts too.

 

[sharkey]

WTF

Hi everyone - just to let you know that we are experiencing a signifI can’t uptick in spam accounts registering and trying to post on the forums. We deploy a number of tools on the site to counter such threats - we get hundreds a day - however a small number do sneak through.

You can do your bit though - if you see a spam post please report it by using the “Report” button under each post on the forums. That creates a report for the admin and moderating team to take a look at in more detail. While we aim to be proactive in tackling spam, every member here can help!

Thanks everyone and appreciate the help to keep this forum clean!

I can’t even use this group any more. People are quoting me & Is like to reply but can’t.
Doubt this will even post.

 

[Stephan Whelan]

WTF

I can’t even use this group any more. People are quoting me & Is like to reply but can’t.
Doubt this will even post.

@sharkey i do apologise but it’s hard to keep spammers off the forums. We are catching hundreds a day automatically but we still get ones get through. What you can do is use the report button under a post to report a spam post and we will investigate and remove.

 

[subversive]

..i keep reporting at least two of those chinese orcatorch-members. they keep flooding this forum with their comercial advertising.
so far nothing have been done about that. is this how you want this forum to be ? this mako-dano member does also nothing but comercial advertising,
is this transitioning from a spearfishing/freediving forum to a marketplace for diving equipment ?

 

[Stephan Whelan]

..i keep reporting at least two of those chinese orcatorch-members. they keep flooding this forum with their comercial advertising.
so far nothing have been done about that. is this how you want this forum to be ? this mako-dano member does also nothing but comercial advertising,
is this transitioning from a spearfishing/freediving forum to a marketplace for diving equipment ?

They are posting in the marketplace sub forums where commercial posts are allowed. This is in our T&C’s. You can always set your settings to ignore those sub forums if you want and you won’t see any of those posts?

 

[subversive]

They are posting in the marketplace sub forums where commercial posts are allowed. This is in our T&C’s. You can always set your settings to ignore those sub forums if you want and you won’t see any of those posts?

..that is the kind of answer i expected..haha.. you have an orcatorch ? would you recommend it ?

 

[Stephan Whelan]

..that is the kind of answer i expected..haha.. you have an orcatorch ? would you recommend it ?

I personally don’t have one, I know people who do including some very well known divers and they like them but I can’t vouch for them personally.

I will say we are reviewing the T&C’s to reduce posting allowed in the marketplace to once a week for accounts.

We have also approached an Orcatorch rep to ask them to reduce amount of posting voluntarily as well.

 

[Bill McIntyre]

For what it's worth Orcatorch was previously posting ads in regional forums. I moved those ads to Goods for Sale and asked them to put all their future ads there. They seemed to comply. But I agree that we are still seeing way too many of their ads and we do need some sort of limit.