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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => What Helps? => Topic started by: Hopalong on July 04, 2006, 06:11:35 PM

Title: Aunt Sam Wants YOU! (War Against Serg, sfdadsf & their ilk)
Post by: Hopalong on July 04, 2006, 06:11:35 PM

Okay, dear board buddies:

I declare war on dem damn spam flammers! I wants to hit them all splat-FLAT wid' a hammer!

So here's the deal. Probably because underneath my general untidiness I have an unfilled June Cleaver neatfreak (well, she never quite gets it all together but she understands Martha Stewart is her sister)...I keep hitting Report to Moderator and then Submit (Richard doesn't need anything in the Comment part, so it's pretty quick) so he can whack them out of the board.

Wanna sign up? There's a signing bonus to join this anti-spam crusade! It's a mild little rush to tattle on them to the teacher, you know?

Anyway, y'all are more than welcome to join me in pouncing on them and reporting them the moment they appear. It's tedious but if we all do it, they'll be gone quicker.

(Just annoys me for them to have one of the little blue New buttons, since they don't DESERVE it.)

 :roll:

Hops

Title: Re: Aunt Sam Wants YOU! (War Against Serg, sfdadsf & their ilk)
Post by: Stormchild on July 04, 2006, 06:18:13 PM

Spammers tend to be malicious. These have mostly been picking on the same two or three threads... which for spammers is nearly sterling citizenship. Real bozos would do a years worth of the oldest threads on the site, or try to take it down by overloading and crashing the server.

We're actually getting off fairly lightly. But I report them too, if I'm on when they pop up. Keep reporting them, but don't expect the site to be left alone.

Title: Re: Aunt Sam Wants YOU! (War Against Serg, sfdadsf & their ilk)
Post by: pennyplant on July 04, 2006, 09:19:10 PM

I'm with ya, sistah! 
I still don't understand why spammers even bother with this type of stuff. 
Bunches of question marks?
I just don't get it. 
I do wish we could spam them in retaliation  :mrgreen:. 
Oooooh, Pennyplant is so bad  :wink: !

PP

Title: Re: Aunt Sam Wants YOU! (War Against Serg, sfdadsf & their ilk)
Post by: Hopalong on July 04, 2006, 11:59:56 PM

I guess they've crept in between some cyber-crack and those threads are stuck with them.
Maybe it's done by some machine, some automated thingie, that could care less where they wind up because they send them out in the zilliions?

Ick. We'll just keep whacking!

Hops

Title: Re: Aunt Sam Wants YOU! (War Against Serg, sfdadsf & their ilk)
Post by: Healing&Hopeful on July 05, 2006, 02:36:41 PM

I'll whack with ya!! xx

Title: Re: Aunt Sam Wants YOU! (War Against Serg, sfdadsf & their ilk)
Post by: Hopalong on July 06, 2006, 06:44:19 AM

It's like that whack-a-groundhog kind of game they have at county fairs....
good practice.

 :?

Title: Re: Aunt Sam Wants YOU! (War Against Serg, sfdadsf & their ilk)
Post by: reallyME on July 31, 2006, 04:14:20 PM

I like the heading of your post here

Title: Re: Aunt Sam Wants YOU! (War Against Serg, sfdadsf & their ilk)
Post by: Hopalong on July 31, 2006, 07:27:25 PM

Thanks!

Auntie S.