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Bye bye for a while

Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
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Hi all. I will be giving the site a miss for a while as I can't put up with all this foreign spam. See you all soon. ......I hope. 
West Yorkshire
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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    It's all gone hasn't it?
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    It came back ans was wiped out again Fidget. Not a major problem when the mods are on duty. Imagine that on a friday night :)



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I missed this morning, too busy picking soft fruit. Summer pudding tonight. Yum.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The mods are on it so it doesn't last long now.  For the weekend we're just going to have to agree to flag spam as soon as we see it.  Only takes 5 of us so I'm sure the regulars can team up and control it.

    Meanwhile, it's easy enough to scroll past.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's a bit like weeding and you don't have to clean your fingernails
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Pauline 7 said:
    Hi all. I will be giving the site a miss for a while as I can't put up with all this foreign spam. See you all soon. ......I hope. 
    Hopefully joking, otherwise a massive over reaction to a minor problem.  The mods had it all cleared up by mid morning.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Does everyone know how to flag spam? Sometimes I see spam that's had a dozen views and only two flags


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Some of the 'views' aren't views by human beings @nutcutlet ... they're 'views' by 'bots' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_bot

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    The quickest way to get rid of it is to put the poster on your ignore list and then click on Discussions.  That removes it and gives the mods a chance to get to it.  
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It's also helpful to bookmark all the threads you post on regularly ... that way you can find them and carry on chatting without having to wade through 40 pages of spam 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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