EVERY POST IS QUESTIONED A SPAM............PROBABLY THIS ONE TOO!
I had that happen the other night, but it was only one time. Hopefully it'll be a short-term problem for you also.
It happened two prior times, a few days apart. Now it happens EVERY post! Nothing has changed at my end for the past five years. Anyone else having this experience?
It happened to me once
I stopped eating SPAM and its all good now...LOL
Hang in there Bill
“Growth is good but change is weird.”
Swaylock’s increased popularity (regularly clocking over 5K unique visitors a day), has made it a prime target for spammers. To combat this to make the mods lives easier, I’ve installed a new SPAM blocking service that scans posts as they are being posted and if they are suspected as spam, issue a CAPTCHA challange. You will be asked to enter some letters to post your post. I APOLOGIZE for the inconvenience. It is not personal in any way – it’s all done by a machine which isn’t as smart as we are.
In the coming weeks, I will be creating a statuses depending on number of points gained that will exempt trusted members from CAPTCHA. Please don’t ask me when it will be done. Eventually, it will.
Mike
Ah ha!
testing my status. Happy holidays everyone. good health to you all!
I've seen little or no spamming on this website compared to others I visit. Seems like it would really cut down on people posting. The rule of un-intended consequences.
Well we all remember the china companies that spammed here a couple of times. I think there was also a shoe company. It sent all the threads back to the top page.
Mike is doing the right thing, but sometimes the filters need to be tweaked. Just give it some time, and check that there isn’t anything in your massage that could be considered spam. I added a URL and it flagged the filter.
If you’re getting it all the time, you might want to check your computer and make sure you don’t have a virus or something like a trojan horse that is working behind the scenes. That could mess you up big time.
By the way, Hawaii loves spam, we eat more of it than anywhere else.
I got one or two already.
But those were for posts I was editing that had links in them.
If your signature has a link, guess what–your tagged.
As for thrailkill and other situations with no links, any guess is as good as another.
Alright just had a post where the post was tagged as spam, wont let me post
http://www2.swaylocks.com/forums/aku-shaper-help-needed#comment-1399285
Just quoting someones original post caused it to be spam.
There are no links in it, no conceivable idea as to whats triggering it.
I suggest dumping this crud unless there is a sharp tack minding the software and making corrections.
Probably best to let the moderators deal with the spam here.
No links no nuttin’ Got it twice today. No captcha either.
Yeah this is a pain in the A$$. So what triggers it. Dollar signs? Numerals? What?
I am not stoked and ready to bail. I know I sound like I know what I am talking about and it can piss people off, but I am not a spammer. I always try to tell it as I see it. Seems we have been falsely classified. Furthermore, whomever provided the script for CAPTCHA is retarded.
Let's see now, been on the site for six years, made 2500 posts, and every post is blocked and challenged as spam. WTF? Why can't the ''filter'' get it right? Curious minds want to know. Who else is having this kind of ''fun?''
I personally feel validated
I have been tested for spam
and I had only eat free
farmers john ham from
foodland this whole week!
no musubi no cheap saimin
me ? I am spam free.spell dat period.
so mericrispness
I put dat ham on the griddle first
to avoid trick can osis and to
swweeten up tha ham for
chef’s superize salad.
My wife gave out one
great big suprize rating
on yesterdays lunch salad 2nd best salad of her life
!!! ambrose !!!
now lets see them
goofy letters from
the spam check service !
I am undaunted
in the face ob uni diversity.
Ug44y
ass my spam checkka
d U was tricky…
tank god ass not wan spell chekka!!#@
People, nothing here is personal. It’s just machines doing a human’s work. You guys perhaps don’t realize that Swaylock’s is now a TARGET for spammers & spam bots. Literally hundreds of spam messages have been inserted into the forums and other parts of the site. It falls on the moderators to delete the messages, find the account, suspend it, etc, etc. Being that the moderators and myself for that matter are basically a volunteer army, I plan to continue using this filter.
Two adjustments will be made going forward…
1. I checked the logs and noticed a number of posts were blocked when the SPAM service was unavailable. So I just changed a setting that permits all posts to go through at these times.
- I will remove spam filter for anyone with more than 100 points. Hope to do this in the next couple weeks. Check back and bug me if I haven’t.
Happy Holidays!!
Mike
Mike,
THANK YOU !
I don't understand the spammer mentality. I would NEVER consider a product that was pitched in such a manner. Everyone should BOYCOTT spammed products, or services.
Merry Christmas, Mike. And thanks again, for creating this forum. I've made many good cyber friends here.
Spam Check
Merry Christmas, Mike! Thanks for all your troubles.