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chocolateninja Jun 20, 2009 01:44 AM

SF Board being badly spammed

Not sure if this is happening right now in other boards, but the SF Chowhound board is being badly spammed and I can't keep up with the posts (trying to report them as spam!). Just a late night/early morning FYI! (It's 1:45 am here)

  1. ms. clicquot Jun 23, 2009 09:57 PM

    It seems to be happening again tonight. I reported some but there were quite a few.

    4 Replies
    1. re: ms. clicquot
      maria lorraine Jun 23, 2009 11:36 PM

      Wow, spam posts are everywhere.

      1. re: maria lorraine
        Shane Greenwood Jun 24, 2009 06:00 AM

        SF Board is basically unusable. The entire top page is almost all spam. I hope CH can figure out how to filter these out.

        1. re: Shane Greenwood
          Servorg Jun 24, 2009 06:33 AM

          I notice that real posts and posters have started up again over the spam which still needs to be cleaned up. And if you look you can see the mod's have shut down the accounts of the spam "posters" - so the best revenge is to continue business as usual. "Don't let the bastards grind you down"

          1. re: Servorg
            wolfe Jun 24, 2009 11:43 AM

            In Latin the motto of the USS Tunny SSN 682
            Illegitimi non carborundum

    2. alkapal Jun 23, 2009 01:50 PM

      they're doing a lot of it overnight, and i've noticed it only so bad in this last few days.

      1. Shane Greenwood Jun 22, 2009 09:07 AM

        I've noticed some of that too. There is one prolific poster in particular who keeps using CH to drive traffic to another blog/site. I tried flagging but gave up after they kept coming. Glad to know others are on to this too.

        1. The Chowhound Team Jun 20, 2009 04:39 AM

          Thanks for your help. We're dealing with it.

          1 Reply
          1. re: The Chowhound Team
            stilton Jun 23, 2009 04:17 AM

            Spammers are back at SF board.

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