Please flag the spam !

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  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,725 Member
    Jackie9003 wrote: »
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/viditop327

    currently flooding with spam, I'm trying to get them all
    Four full pages of disgusting posts of hiring sex workers. No way I’m opening each of those posts to flag them. It’s like they’re trying to take down the forums permanently, the disgusting mother *kitten* 🤮
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,325 Member
    edited February 2023
    :no_mouth:
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,914 Member
    Once reported, mods work as fast as they can to delete them.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

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  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,725 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Once reported, mods work as fast as they can to delete them.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

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    The problem was out of the galaxy horrific and extremely unprofessional. Moderators have to sleep, too, therefore those hooker ads stayed up for at least five hours. It’s pretty shameful these are the tools moderators and Staff are given to work with, but I guess forums like this are a relic anyway. Maybe that’s why they won’t invest some time in a more appropriate solution.

  • Jackie9003
    Jackie9003 Posts: 1,114 Member
    I'm a volunteer spam zapper and I managed to get them all as soon as I noticed, there were 4 or 5 profiles and well over 200 posts and it took me nearly 2 hours.
    This is the first time in a long time the forum had been hit so aggressively but luckily I'm in the UK so spotted them early and staff have now banned the profiles.
    I did notice that some of the posts had been read numerous times but not reported, there used to be a trigger that if a post received a number of reports it would be automatically zapped but if people don't report them they're not going to disappear.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,325 Member
    @jackie2003 That trigger still works.

    I figure there are thousands of people who read the forums and not many of them know the small details like that "5 and you're gone" thingy.

    Heck, not many people know about this thread, either.

    It doesn't happen very often. Thanks for trying to keep up, you're a better (wo)man than I. I would have just logged out!
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,725 Member
    Jackie9003 wrote: »
    I'm a volunteer spam zapper and I managed to get them all as soon as I noticed, there were 4 or 5 profiles and well over 200 posts and it took me nearly 2 hours.
    This is the first time in a long time the forum had been hit so aggressively but luckily I'm in the UK so spotted them early and staff have now banned the profiles.
    I did notice that some of the posts had been read numerous times but not reported, there used to be a trigger that if a post received a number of reports it would be automatically zapped but if people don't report them they're not going to disappear.

    I didn’t realize they had a volunteer zapper role. Used to be you had to be a full moderator to be able to zap spam, which of course requires much more time commitment.

    As you said there were pages and pages of this disgusting stuff and I wouldn’t expect people to click into each post so they each get five spam flags and automatically zapped. With that level of volume, not to mention morally questionable content, we should understand that members who know how the spam trigger works wouldn’t spam flag each of them one by one. That’s not a solution to rely on at all, in my opinion.

    Two hours from a volunteer?! Wow, thank you for your time and effort, but seriously, MFP?!! 😳

  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,398 Member
    Jackie9003 wrote: »
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/viditop327

    currently flooding with spam, I'm trying to get them all

    It's not a bad idea to flag any spam zappers or moderators when it gets that extreme. If you're lucky some of them are online and can help. It's the luck of the draw sometimes.
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,371 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/Linda_simona - currently flooding the boards with special keto diet stuff
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,224 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/discussions/McDiana96 - Posting multiple ads to help people with their credit.
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,224 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/comments/akuzmina1

    Brand new account posting on multiple threads asking for people to answer questionnaires, do blood analysis, etc.
  • tiptoethruthetulips
    tiptoethruthetulips Posts: 3,371 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/comments/akuzmina1

    Brand new account posting on multiple threads asking for people to answer questionnaires, do blood analysis, etc.

    I can't do anything with the profile, I will leave that for staff or moderators, but I've been able to remove the posts.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,325 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/atyamehmood

    health questionnaire threads, multiple
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,371 Member
    newbie account posting about credit repair:
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/profile/Cheryl_M67
  • Jackie9003
    Jackie9003 Posts: 1,114 Member
    Can a mod please remove ThicTS they're posting explicit pics, I've removed them as spam but the profile pic is not good.
    I can't post a link from my phone.
  • JustSomeEm
    JustSomeEm Posts: 20,242 MFP Moderator
    Jackie9003 wrote: »
    Can a mod please remove ThicTS they're posting explicit pics, I've removed them as spam but the profile pic is not good.
    I can't post a link from my phone.

    I think @sugaraddict4321 got this. Thanks for the flag @Jackie9003
  • sugaraddict4321
    sugaraddict4321 Posts: 15,836 MFP Moderator
    @JustSomeEm thanks, yep I got it. :)@Jackie9003 Thanks! :flowerforyou: