Omg someone please get rid of all of the love help or whatever crap above!

MistyBlue9
MistyBlue9 Posts: 109 Member
edited November 21 in Introduce Yourself
Report it everyone!

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  • Glinda1971
    Glinda1971 Posts: 2,328 Member
    Flag it as spam. 5 flags and it goes away.
  • MistyBlue9
    MistyBlue9 Posts: 109 Member
    Cheers Glinda1971
  • nora_gettingfitnow
    nora_gettingfitnow Posts: 108 Member
    The downside is that for every post that gets removed from 5 flags, theres like three more posts popping up. Crazy stuff
  • sugaraddict4321
    sugaraddict4321 Posts: 15,884 MFP Moderator
    nora_gettingfitnow wrote: »
    The downside is that for every post that gets removed from 5 flags, theres like three more posts popping up. Crazy stuff

    Exactly thus why on the main spam flagging thread I asked if there's a way to just block users from posting again after they've had a post flagged for spam. ;) Seems like this should be do-able, and would cut it down a bit.
  • MistyBlue9
    MistyBlue9 Posts: 109 Member
    It's ridiculous. This is a fitness app! Sigh.
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    MistyBlue9 wrote: »
    It's ridiculous. This is a fitness app! Sigh.

    This happens a lot on the internet. Welcome. They armed you with a flag button.
  • rushfive
    rushfive Posts: 603 Member
    Got a couple of them removed as #5.
    Just got on mfp site.

    I think a lot of people don't want to even click on them bc it is spam. virus. idk
    good day all
  • MistyBlue9
    MistyBlue9 Posts: 109 Member
    Yes, thanks Alluminati, i'm not new to the internet. It just seemed worse today!
  • aamb
    aamb Posts: 377 Member
    seems to happen at weekends, I guess they r bored
  • MistyBlue9
    MistyBlue9 Posts: 109 Member
    Thanks rushfive, a good day to you too. Maybe aamb :)
  • MistyBlue9
    MistyBlue9 Posts: 109 Member
    Great idea sugar addict, surely it would help
  • tiptoethruthetulips
    tiptoethruthetulips Posts: 3,371 Member
    This thread, the last few pages gives some hints, also a good spot to have a whinge about the spam. The moderators keep an eye on it.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10002226/please-flag-the-spam#latest
  • MistyBlue9
    MistyBlue9 Posts: 109 Member
    It's ok, i was just asking for other people to help report the spam. Thanks
  • MistyBlue9
    MistyBlue9 Posts: 109 Member
    Looks way better already so forget original post! Lol. Take care all x
  • TheGoktor
    TheGoktor Posts: 1,138 Member
    aamb wrote: »
    seems to happen at weekends, I guess they r bored

    They're not bored, they're paid by shady marketing companies - it's called astroturfing, and for people who are used to subsisting on less than a dollar a day, it's a very real way of making enough money to feed their families.

    It used to be that people would infiltrate fora, and then subtly post about whichever product was being peddled. It was a standard PR tactic 10-12 years ago. These days, unscrupulous marketers just get a bunch of people from developing nations off Elance, Upwork, etc., and pay them to spam the heck out of fora, regardless of whether said fora have anything to do with the product or service. They also leave spammy, nonsensical comments on blogs, and send spam emails.

    In some cases, bots and scripts may be used to post this junk, and since MFP's security is almost non-existent, it's really not difficult to set up something to simply spam the boards... hence it feeling a bit like a hydra. (For three years, MFP has been promising to switch to using SSL but still hasn't, which is why it - and consequently, our personal data - has been hacked several times).
  • aamb
    aamb Posts: 377 Member
    that's me told!
  • MistyBlue9
    MistyBlue9 Posts: 109 Member
    Now I will feel bad reporting it. Anyone welcome to add me if they wish, by the way
  • TheGoktor
    TheGoktor Posts: 1,138 Member
    edited July 2015
    aamb wrote: »
    that's me told!

    Oh noez Aamb... I didn't mean it to sound as though I was doing the waggy finger thing! I'm genuinely sorry if my post came across that way. :(
    MistyBlue9 wrote: »
    Now I will feel bad reporting it. Anyone welcome to add me if they wish, by the way

    No, please don't MB9 - the sooner dodgy folk in the West stop taking advantage of the world's poor, the better. And the best way to get them to stop doing that, and start behaving like decent, responsible human beings, is to hit them where it hurts... their pockets. I do believe that when it stops being profitable for them, they'll stop the exploitation; and it will stop being profitable if we all do our bit to stop this kind of nonsense (e.g. by flagging the spam). Sometimes you have to be a bit cruel in order to effect a long-term change for the better.

    So absolutely keep flagging the spam. Besides, it's a great sense of satisfaction when you're the fifth person to flag it, and you see it magically disappear before your very eyes! :D
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