wombat Posted August 22 Report Posted August 22 8 minutes ago, cliffy said: As was said in the movie "My Cousin Vinny" - "so what's the problem?" You want free-you watch ads (some of them bad) You don't want ads (and want to support a good website) you pay the freight. So - what's the problem! :-) :-) Likewise, spam ads are really not too difficult to see. I'm careful what I open and I haven't been hit by mass spammers in a long while. Could happen sure but again I don't open things I don't recognize. Don't respond and give them a live email to sell. Got an email from a broker in a city I have never done business in just this week wanting to go over accounts. You think I called him on the number he emailed - hell no. I called the main office in another state to verify who he was even though he used all the right brokerage names in the email. Turns out he was working for the correct brokerage and was assigned to do the call but I verify everything on stuff like that. The problem is that there were so many spam posts it made it annoying to find the real posts. There isn't anything in the spam posts for us to click on, they are not trying to scam us. They are trying to scam the AI, so when you ask Siri to call Ethiad Airlines to change your seat, it calls their scam number and not the real one.
cliffy Posted August 22 Report Posted August 22 Well 'um- do I dare say- don't use Siri? (She's a Trollope anyway :-)
Fly Boomer Posted August 22 Report Posted August 22 4 hours ago, cliffy said: Likewise, spam ads are really not too difficult to see. I'm careful what I open and I haven't been hit by mass spammers in a long while. Could happen sure but again I don't open things I don't recognize. Don't respond and give them a live email to sell. To be clear, the problem recently solved by Craig was spam topics -- not spam adverts. Everybody got them whether they had paid their $10/year or not. 2
cliffy Posted August 22 Report Posted August 22 Interesting because I never saw them but if they were only for a couple of weeks - a couple of weeks ago -I may have been out of the country when it happened
mooniac58 Posted August 23 Author Report Posted August 23 2 hours ago, cliffy said: Interesting because I never saw them but if they were only for a couple of weeks - a couple of weeks ago -I may have been out of the country when it happened Yeah the real infestation happened over a few days in early August - then it was hundreds of topics being posted in just a few hours. Prior to that we had them here and there but nothing like that. Crazy thing is today I had a spammer register, pay the $2 fee for instant validation and then immediately make a bunch of spam posts. I'm expecting them to file for some kind of refund/chargeback through PayPal now. Hopefully that will not become the new problem... 2 1
Justin Schmidt Posted August 23 Report Posted August 23 Fyi, software engineer here, if your getting nude or porn or sex store ads. It is NOT the site. it's YOU, lay off the porn and your search history. Destroying society anyway.
Shadrach Posted August 23 Report Posted August 23 18 hours ago, Justin Schmidt said: Fyi, software engineer here, if your getting nude or porn or sex store ads. It is NOT the site. it's YOU, lay off the porn and your search history. Destroying society anyway. Wow...maybe look closer at that Ad before you start throwing around accusations of degeneracy...I mean as a software engineer, I would expect you to know better. It is clearly a clickbait Ad that takes the user to one of those 15 page narratives that keeps you going to the next page so that the site owner can rack up clicks. It is not related to porn or sex except for the initial "shock graphic" ; anyone hoping for more with a click would be sorely disappointed. Agree that the pornification of society is a massive drain... 1
midlifeflyer Posted August 23 Report Posted August 23 1 hour ago, Shadrach said: Wow...maybe look closer at that add before you start throwing around accusations of degeneracy...I mean as a software engineer, I would expect you to know better Thank you for saying that. You expressed it much more kindly than I would have. 1
cliffy Posted August 24 Report Posted August 24 On 8/22/2025 at 7:10 PM, mooniac58 said: Yeah the real infestation happened over a few days in early August - then it was hundreds of topics being posted in just a few hours. Prior to that we had them here and there but nothing like that. Crazy thing is today I had a spammer register, pay the $2 fee for instant validation and then immediately make a bunch of spam posts. I'm expecting them to file for some kind of refund/chargeback through PayPal now. Hopefully that will not become the new problem... Ya that coincides with when I was out of the country and not online at all BTW try it sometime-go off line for a few days- peace and quiet!
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