Spam & Replies again!

DavidGP · Jan 17, 2007

Please dont reply to spam, however tempting it is as your only giving the spammer the attention they seek, the below quote says it all better than I would have.......

Abbysue said:

What I don't get is why some members feel the need to reply to these threads?

Please keep in mind that even one reply to a spam thread gives the spammer exactly what they want...ATTENTION! They don't care if it's negative or positive as long as the thread is active. Why would you lower yourself to their level by replying to their crap?

Replying bumps the thread to the top of the forum thus reflecting poorly on MG's. Going to any forum and the first thing you see at the top of the page is a spam thread looks bad.

Please report the thread as spam http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/star17abby/Smilies/thumbsup.gif and we'll take care of it. Don't reply to it! And for your own protection, don't click their lame links either. Every time you click a link you are taking a big risk (prime example here of a clicked spam link before it got removed) AND it is very likely they keep track of where the click throughs are coming from. They see they are getting traffic from MG's it only encourages them to post more often.

For those that don't know how to report a thread/post: Every post has an 'report a bad post icon' --> http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/star-n-abby/reportpost.gif in the upper right corner of the post. Click that and it will take you to a page where you can enter your comments. If it's a spam post you can simply say spam or if it's something else like a thread that needs to be moved or a link to something bad..something brief is all that's needed. Click send report and we get an instant email on it. Piece of cake and a big help to us!

Thanks everyone for helping us keep MG's spam free AND protecting all members and guests from malicious links and all the other crapola spam that's been hitting our forums!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/star17abby/Smilies/cheers2.gif
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Cheers

bigbazza · Jan 18, 2007

Looks like you deleted the XXX thread. :cool
Well done, Halo. We don't need that here on MG.
Plenty of other sites to obtain that stuff from. Bazza

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Halo said: ↑

Please dont reply to spam, however tempting it is as your only giving the spammer the attention they seek, the below quote says it all better than I would have.......

Cheers
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