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Howdy, everyone!

As you know, the forum has been fighting spammers and bots for years. We have seen our fair share of "Custom Kitchens UK", scammy Internet hosting companies, and bots trying to send us to a business's homepage. But after fighting the tidal wave of spam for so many years, the admins had a persistent thought: what if the spammers are right? Not in terms of posting nonsense links and trying to scam our users, but in trying to make money through our unique platform?

Well, thanks to the helpful counsel of Taunt, we have finally decided to move the forum in a new direction. Please see his important post on the matter in this topic

Concerning spam-posts

Malte279

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Some of you have noticed the recent cropping up of spam-mail on the GOF. The best thing is to just ignore that rubbish. Rest assured that the posts are being removed as soon as we see them, that the accounts of the spam posters and everything related to them are being axed and banned from the accounts and (this is to the address of those posting the spam) people on the GOF are not going to remember any of the products advertised for or if they do only with the fierce intention to avoid any products whose producers feel the necessity of ramming down advertisments down other peoples throats in such a manner!


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What you can also do is click the nice, little 'report' button at the top right of a post. That way we'll be informed through email and may be able to react even quicker ;)


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That's what I used, the report button, back years ago when there was some porn spam.  It's pretty easy to use as I recall.


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next time I'll report it to you admins :yes
I won't respond to those spamers anymore, sry
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I commented and reported on the last one I think. But I swear the last advertisement I've seen before. Do you ban users IP address so when banned users try to make another account there can't or do you leave it?


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We ban everything related to an account including the IP addresses. What spam we get doesn't come from the same IP address more than once.


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Quote from: Malte279,Apr 16 2013 on  04:13 PM
We ban everything related to an account including the IP addresses. What spam we get doesn't come from the same IP address more than once.
I see, thanks for clearing that up.