Mr. Incredible is doing a bang up job.  I see these spammers and I wish I could zap them and I think...I should report that, and before I get to it they are often gone.

This is a top notch forum IMO, with an excellent signal to noise ratio. And compared to what I see elsewhere it requires little moderation.

Yes,

The moderators are doing a great job.  I have only seen one spammer the whole time I have been on the forums.   

Yes,

The moderators are doing a great job.  I have only seen one spammer the whole time I have been on the forums.

No doubt about it the mods rock!  The spammer I just saw is already gone!

Only 1!  It would seem you don't actually live here at the MRH forums like I do. [wink]

I've seen quite a few and they might be getting a bit more frequent.

Since they get zapped almost as fast as they post it's mostly funny anyway.

This site must have administrators who do not sleep. They are quick to delete Spam. Great job.

I belong to the Bachmann forums and there has been a porno Spam there for the past few hours. I and some others have reported it but apparently there are no administrators looking at their emal for a report.

Rich

I can't agree more on the spammers. I sent Joe an email saying I was going to put a link to MRH in my eBay train listings and he replied that I could then come here and put a link to my ebay. Unfortunately, I discovered soon thereafter that I could not put the link to here in ebay. So, I'm not sure if the offer to link here is still appropriate?

I did however keep one listing on Craigslist for the entire week under the "free" section... whether these are allowed is debatable..

We've added some new anti-spam features today.

If you see a post that's clearly spam, you can mark it as spam at the bottom. Just click the link and let us know it's spam. The new features include a "learning" process that over time should catch the spam before it gets posted.

You all marking any spam you see will help this site get smarter at identifying spam!

Maybe not the best feature, as I guess I've been marked as spam, as I can't post.

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So far our new spam filters have identified a dozen or so legitimate posts as spam.

One of the ideas with the spam filter is to reduce the moderation load by having the system catch spam for us. However, if we need to keep releasing legitimate posts repeatedly as not spam, that's certainly NOT reducing the moderation load.

Now, it will take some time to train the spam filter on what is and is not spam - we recognize that. So we'll keep the filters turned on for now - but we've raised the spam bar quite a bit to see if we can get it to let more legitimate posts through.

Obviously, if it conitnues to make things miserable for the legitimate posters, then we'll turn the spam filters off and just deal with the spammers as before.

I hope the spammers get everything they deserve ... sheesh what a pain.

Thanks for the fast fix, Joe!

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Nobody would do that.  We allyour posts!