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Forum Spam: Apology and Fixes
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It's really woeking isn't it. I wish I could take a shotgun to these pieces of shit.
Desperate situation for existing & potential RW users - who'd bother to trawl through an ocean of spam??
This is getting desperate! Can't find threads that I was reading this morning!
I have been clearing for an hour and am making very little headway
Dominique has left RW apparently as I found out when I got her OofO reply and Alison Hamlett has taken over so I have mailed her
I will clear as and when I can but I do have a few other issues to sort out
I have been trying to target those with more posts so hopefully can get a bigger target with one hit
M...eldy, thanks for your efforts. Something needs to be done as we are being swamped.
I'm sure this has been mentioned before but lots of forums only post your first message after it's been verified. I have no idea how much extra work this would give people and it may not be appropriate for this forum but something really has to be done.
Maybe some of the long term users on here could be given some powers to help out?
Thanks for your efforts Meldy.
I am not sure its worth carrying on tonight ... they are quicker than me !!
Its a new log-in every time
I will see if there is a lull and do another stint, I can only assume that whatever they put in place in June has somehow failed today because we havent had this level for a long time
Meldy - I don't blame you for calling it a day. This seems over and beyond what Spam wombles can realistically manage.
Something obviously *was* working as we have had little to do for the last few months barr the odd bursts
This is how it was before which leads me to believe that something has broken
Just Run, some of us do hence this my previous posts
Thank you to you and the other wombles for trying
Well it seems a lot clearer, I am not sure if the Wombles have managed to clear it all or whether RW Towers picked up my email or not
Either way, it looks a lot better than it did
Between us then I think
Lets hope we dont get another blast
M...eldy & Intermanaut.......thankyou
another round of spammers it seems again What a nightmare it must be for u!! is there anything we can do to help?
Runner's World is sorry for any annoyance or inconvenience caused by this weekend's spam attack. As Dominique stated at the start of september, we're introducing third party software to prevent this happening in the future. The software is currently in the final phase of testing and will be implemented as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patience
Alison
Bozo'd messages are still shown in the search results, even though the pages are empty when loaded.
You really do need to sack off that pathetic Immediate Media company that purport to be able to do this sort of thing ... its embarrassing now !
1) You know that this is an entirely free service don't you ?
2) Now look up 'get a grip' and well get one !
If you dont like go to Fetch........oh wait
mr Andy, my profuse apologies if my wanton ranting has offended your blueness ... (we're planning a little soiree down to old Londinium town shortly should you wish to engage in some mindless offence-driven' rioting and murder-ering )
The reason for my harsh words is basically I dislike poor service, especially when the provider of that service (be it free or paid it makes no difference) professes to 'value highly' the service they provide, couple this with the fact that I do actually know just a bit about how to fix it, then you may possibly be able to understand my frustration.
I do hope my words haven't soured your Runners World forum experience.
As for getting a grip, I already have a grip, in fact I have lots of grips ... would you like to buy one?
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Paid-for or not, the forum is as I write once again swamped by spam and unusable. I only visit a couple of other forms but neither suffers from this problem.
RW need to decide whether they want a website without a forum or a website with one. At the moment it's a kind of halfway house.
Pity. This used to be a really great place.