you can emial, private message and ask all you like, but to get a response out of the morderators is rare. They are busy people apparently. I know of several members, including myself who would like to volunteer monitoring and removing spam posts and blocking IP’s of said users, but have yet to get a response. I ran a board for several years and never had a spam problem because I kept up with it and had a couple helpers for when I was no on. I see hundreds in not more bogus usernames that need to be deleted… but they allow the spam to continue.

All we can do is *bump* legit topics and try to push the spam posts to the bottom of the page.

Remember, NEVER click a link (unless you know the user), especially in a newbie user’s signature or post.

Will the monitors please delete all this spam on what otherwise is an interesting set of Forums.

LOL Paul they do not care otherwise they would either do it or let those of us who have the ability to voluntneer and delete it and clean this place up.

Does any of these administrator read any of this crap?

By golly, I will get their attention if it’s the last thing I do!

GET RID OF THE SPAM!!!!

Every single forum section is filled with spam, the Religion, Highlands and Polk county boards are most active and seem to keep it down but TBO forum admins need to either allow those of us who have willingly attempted to volunteer to delete and block the spam or they need a moderator that will stop it from continuing.

All of this spam threatens each and every forum user and it seem TBO forum staff is not taking the threat seriously. The links contained within those spam threads contain Trojans and viruses along with hijackers and phishing programs.

It would take only two volunteers, maybe just one to go through and delete each spam thread and pseudo posts (hidden spam throughout the forum) with spam links in the signatures lines and then block the user-name and then the corresponding IP address and then report it all to the FTC.

It would not take a lot, would be quite fun really and easy. I( worry they will eventually close down our forums because of it, even when a couple of us have tried to offer free help.

I have found 3 other online message boards/forums for Highlands County People(not including Newssunnews since they do not seem to be allowing new members)...so maybe there are other forums for other areas as well?

daisy22loca - 24 January 2010 04:56 PM

Every single forum section is filled with spam, the Religion, Highlands and Polk county boards are most active and seem to keep it down but TBO forum admins need to either allow those of us who have willingly attempted to volunteer to delete and block the spam or they need a moderator that will stop it from continuing.

All of this spam threatens each and every forum user and it seem TBO forum staff is not taking the threat seriously. The links contained within those spam threads contain Trojans and viruses along with hijackers and phishing programs.

It would take only two volunteers, maybe just one to go through and delete each spam thread and pseudo posts (hidden spam throughout the forum) with spam links in the signatures lines and then block the user-name and then the corresponding IP address and then report it all to the FTC.

It would not take a lot, would be quite fun really and easy. I( worry they will eventually close down our forums because of it, even when a couple of us have tried to offer free help.

I have news for you. this sorry excuse for a forum has already been rendered useless bythe incompatenant garbage running the show. I swear these idiotic retards can’t even respond to a single fucking request!

BuSab - 26 January 2010 01:20 PM

daisy22loca - 24 January 2010 04:56 PM

Every single forum section is filled with spam, the Religion, Highlands and Polk county boards are most active and seem to keep it down but TBO forum admins need to either allow those of us who have willingly attempted to volunteer to delete and block the spam or they need a moderator that will stop it from continuing.

All of this spam threatens each and every forum user and it seem TBO forum staff is not taking the threat seriously. The links contained within those spam threads contain Trojans and viruses along with hijackers and phishing programs.

It would take only two volunteers, maybe just one to go through and delete each spam thread and pseudo posts (hidden spam throughout the forum) with spam links in the signatures lines and then block the user-name and then the corresponding IP address and then report it all to the FTC.

It would not take a lot, would be quite fun really and easy. I( worry they will eventually close down our forums because of it, even when a couple of us have tried to offer free help.

I have news for you. this sorry excuse for a forum has already been rendered useless bythe incompatenant garbage running the show. I swear these idiotic retards can’t even respond to a single fucking request!

Someone did respond twice to people yesterday, the spam was removed but now just coming right back. The only thing I can suggest is find a new forum home, or make one ourselves.