[DaKine]

I agree its getting old real old...

[BlowFish]

Originally Posted by Tams »

it's the July 4th long weekend in USA...
probably they are away.
I would worry if things do not get back to normal by Tuesday morning.

Sadly this seems to be 'normal' now. I remember in the early days of TL there where a team of dedicated mods. At any time there was a good chance of a couple being on line whatever the time whatever the occasion. As it is now the only name I recognise is MMS. I would be interested to know if TL is where the new management want it to be? Seems understaffed to me, though I have seen no indication they might be recruiting more.

There is a thread in the support section about the woeful search function. Can't recall how old it is weeks maybe a month. No official response. I am sure it is not the case but it makes it feel like the captain and crew have taken to the life rafts.

[Tams]

note to moderator:

there is a one report per minute limit on reporting spams.

it make reporting multiple spams very difficult.

[DaKine]

Since the mods dont check the support section imma post this here lol. From another thread...

When James was running this ship it was a pretty tight ship I don't even remember any spam posts...

Originally Posted by macdfx »

How about fixing the spam problem that is ruining TL for everyone instead.

Think you can man up and take care of it for us?

Originally Posted by MadMarketScientist »

Geez macdfx when you put it like that I just don't know.

Seriously though, I'm not sure what you're referring to and hardly thing TL is being ruined for everyone. We actually have 3 people who work fulltime (not exclusively on TL there's no money here and receive any spam reports we get and actually I'm pretty proud how quickly we remove those from the site. Most of those posters tend not to return because they go through all that work of posting their spam and we delete it usually within the same hour (unless it's non-business hours)

There's no way to really stop this completely - the only way would be if we moderated every post and that's the last thing all of you would want - every post would be delayed, sometimes for hours. However, we rely on the Spam Reporting function and it seems to really work great and just so you know, we have multiple people who get those reports as soon as you click it and first available person deals with the deletions.

I'm pretty proud of the effort but hey, I'm always open to doing more so if there's something else we should be by all means, please let me know. Thanks.

[rcossey73]

It seems this is the only thread that isn't getting hit with spam...

[MadMarketScientist]

Hello all.

A few things and reminders. James is/was a great guy but I have talked to him in detail about this. He said it's no different now then it was. Remember, he was one guy trying to run TL on the side. When you guys report a post today we have 3 people, who work full-time get notified of those posts. And, you've probably seen they quickly get removed. Most times when I see the email and check it, it's already been removed by one of the other two who receive the reported posts.

We really do jump on those as soon as you guys do it. It really is dumb on the part of the spammers since their posts literally stay up for a few minutes most times, and then are gone. Waste of time but has it stopped the spammers from jamming your inboxes? No. Despite all the great filtering today I still get hundreds of spams everyday, though thankfully in my inbox most get caught. Clearly these are very annoying and fairly dumb people. But, what happens is they are probably hired help, being paid next to nothing to basically spam whatever blog or forum they can. Usually for a few dollars or a few hundred a month.

I totally realize it's a hassle and am open to solutions. However to say the website is somehow not being watched over is a stretch. James had no ability to manage this site especially in the last few months of his ownership due to a full time job and said he was giving it 20 minutes at best. We put a lot more time into it and yes, I understand the frustration but just saying how it used to be different isn't providing any solutions especially when that is a rose colored look at the past.

What I would like however are constructive solutions if you guys have any. We couldn't possibly respond faster than we do on reported posts. With three people including myself notified we do jump on them. And, it's not like this website brings in revenues anywhere close to being able to just hire more people on that.

I could moderate every post -- we could have every post go in a queue and get approved though I would think a lot of you would not like that. I might take a look and see if I can make the rules much tougher perhaps for new posters than they are. That is probably an idea worth looking at and I'll do that now.

Other suggestions that actually could help the problem I'm all ears. Thanks for the support, sorry for the frustrations and I know you all just sometimes need to vent -- that's cool. Thanks.

[DaKine]

Maybe anytime a new person signs up their 1st - 3rd posts should be monitored before posting them.

Seriously tho I've never seen the spammers hit this place as bad as they are doing now...

[MadMarketScientist]

After doing some more research I have implemented something. Let's see if it makes a difference. I'm sure you guys will let me know

Hopefully it helps, if not we'll keep digging.

Thanks.