So after having a wee look at the latest spammers it was alarming to discover 12 folk joined a day ago as you can see
Out of these 12 folk 8 are spam!!!..just because some don't post a link it's all there on their "about" page !!
It's ridiculous that these all go undetected unless by the RSPB
It's like a free advertising place for anything and everything
From Essay writing to Escorts!!
It's a disgrace
Rant Over :-]
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
community.rspb.org.uk/.../1443947
just a trial link on my laptop
**LINK BOCKED**google**LINK BOCKED**/search
no luck with website outside of RSPB, thought using laptop might give better result but same as tablet!
Mines worked yesterday aswell from the stv news...temperamental...but we will plod on as we always do ;-)
Regards,
Ian.
I must ask you! Do you really think the present RSPB Community Forum is an improvement. Lots of members of this forum have left ove the years in large numbers. No active moderators for many year. More spam than there was and much more than any otter forums. If you think thats an improvement. It shows me evidence that us 100? way.You’ve just proven to me you will never critisise the RSPB even if clearly the forum is much worse. There are lots of members that have left this forum over many years because of the changes for the worse and that is fact! Its no good saying thats not true as clealy it is true. And there is no doubt it was the changes to the forums why many left. It is no good saying its nor true. It is true. And if you think that having no acfive moderators and a lot more spam is an improvement! That just proves my point about always agreeing with the RSPB. That proves ny point about webinars and you ger better discussions of different opinions and not always agreeing with the RSPB even if the RSPB is clearly wrong. I also have strong views about how the RSPB’s AGM is run under the RSPB’s Royal Charter. But thats for another day
Iv got lots of ideas on how the RSPB community can be improved but since the post is about spam here’s Just one idea I have come up when I saw this post. How the RSPB can be improved spam wise The RSPB should have something that can detect spam profiles Like advertisements And tell weather its a genuine profile or a Spam one since there usually trying to sell the community things or ask them to join black magic instead so that the spam profiles can be removed.
il also note that I only just joined last year and have never been a community member in the past before so if the negatives outweighed the positives I would of left and never come back but for me it’s abit of both not all good but not all bad either there are lots of things that need improving while at the same time there also a lot of things I enjoy about the community at the same time I don’t let the problems of the forum get in the way of me enjoying it in the long term.
I would say if there was a catogry where you could tell the people that work here how the forum could be improved i would give them alot of ideas. I know a lot about technology and Artificial intelligence not just about Wildlife. the thing with software is if it’s not up to date it can have bugs in it that need fixing and can cause problems.
if a software is updated yes it can come with it improvements but sometimes it can also come with it new problems or worsen old problems if there is still some in the new update that still hasn’t been fixed at the same time. Exspeacially if there wasn’t a beta version of a update released to be tested before implementing the new software and if software is left for years without updateing when it still has bugs that hasn’t been fixed it too can cause probloms like being open to spammers or other security problems like that.
Must have been a serious question I think to make a phone call...why else would you waste a charities time