• WendyBartter
  • 8 Jul 2019 10:03 AM
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Please, please, please will RSPB Mods block these repetitive spammers & remove their rubbish from this Community Forum!

  • Elliott B
    Good afternoon everyone,

    Just a quick update on the spamming activity.

    We have removed the spam content and users accounts. The only way we can prevent this type of activity would be by putting a pre-approval on all new members as we did before, but currently, this would put a significant delay on legitimate new registrations, so we will continue to monitor the threads and respond should we see any unwanted activity.

    We are not able to monitor the community continuously, so there may well be a delay in taking action, but we will take action as soon as we can.

    Apologies for any inconvenience this has caused you.

    Many thanks for your continued patience.

    Elliott.
  • Alan
    Elliott there is still some spam left on page 6 and 7.
    Isn't it possible to let some of us mod the forums?

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  • Alan

    In reply to Elliott B:

    Elliott B said:
    so we will continue to monitor the threads and respond should we see any unwanted activity.

    Elliott I'm sorry but you are not monitoring the threads, these have been going on for days.

    Is it possible to add Captcha to the register page in case they are bots?

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  • Alan

    In reply to Elliott B:

    Elliott B said:
    Good afternoon everyone,

    Just a quick update on the spamming activity.

    We have removed the spam content and users accounts. The only way we can prevent this type of activity would be by putting a pre-approval on all new members as we did before, but currently, this would put a significant delay on legitimate new registrations, so we will continue to monitor the threads and respond should we see any unwanted activity.

    We are not able to monitor the community continuously, so there may well be a delay in taking action, but we will take action as soon as we can.

    Apologies for any inconvenience this has caused you.

    Many thanks for your continued patience.

    Elliott.

    Spammer...https://community.rspb.org.uk/members/doctormartin

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  • SunnyKate2

    @ElliottThank you for at least replying to thread BUT to follow on as Alan says and

    as I said on the community thread.

    Elliott B said:

    "Elliott.

    p.s. I also know there are a few concerns with the current rate of Moderation within the Community - this is being looked at and I hope to be able to update you further in the coming days."

    @ Elliott, this community is now becoming so difficult to follow, with all the Spam, several Members have said they would Moderate and Alan has even filled in the Volunteer form to that effect.

    PLEASE can you ( Elliott) do something to assist.Thank you.

    .................................

    Surely if RSPB do not have the man power or costs to cover a Moderator full time,There are reliable Members here who would volunteer their time,( including myself). if only to be able to delete the SPAM as they appear.Anything else could be directed back to RSPB to deal with.

    I have said before Groups I already Moderate on throughout the day, rarely get spam as Operators/bots etc know it is not worth posting as they are almost immediately deleted, so surely this is an option that may be considered.

     

  • Alan
    I would have gladly help moderate Kate but even if the RSPB agreed and I doubt they will I think you at least need to be a member of the RSPB...sadly I cancelled my membership this morning over this debacle.

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  • THOMO
    The only way which will make it harder for the spammers to get access to these forums and I have said this many timee before and it may sound harsh and I doubt the RSPB would take this up, but that is the RSPB Community Forums should be exclusively for paid up RSPB members and to access these forums your password or rather your pin number which would be your RSPB membership number and if any RSPB member posted spam the RSPB staff or moderators would know where you lived and could deal with any problem more profusely. Thats the only way the RSPB can deal with this problem with there limlted resources. It may sound very harsh, but in my opinion it’s the only way that the RSPB can deal with this problem and it is a major problem and a security problem.

    Regards,

    Ian.

  • Noisette
    Thanks a lot Thomo!

    Best wishes

    Hazel in the Gironde estuary, France

  • THOMO
    I’m a member of another forum, completely different to the RSPB Forum of another organisation which has far less paid up members than the RSPB, but you have to be a paid up member of that organisation to be a member of that forum and the forum is doing well, with lots of the paid up members posting on that Forum.

    Regards,

    Ian.

  • THOMO

    If no one agrees with what I’ve said and the RSPB will not most likely have any forum members as Mods and I’m very concerned about the security around this forum with all this spam and I’m not technical if anything happened on my iPad that didn’t make me feel safe on these forums and it’s the only way which would make me feel safe posting here and also the RSPB have limited funds for moderation. So my question to others! What would you do on these forums do make it much safer to use, security wise on these forums, if you,don’t agree with my proposal that this forum should be for paid up RSPB members only. Again im sorry if I sound harsh. But I’m afraid I have to come to some sort of reality and I know there will be lots of you not happy about this.

    Regards,

    Ian.