ADMIN — you need to do a better job of policing this board!

I used to be a volunteer moderator on a very active, large car (!) forum, largely members in the U.S. but also many other countries. There were entire swaths in a couple of countries that were banned by the techs to stop spam by using IP addresses. They were careful how they did it – but this type of overwhelming spam didn’t originate from an area where there would be potential members. Moderators deleted occasional spam or troll posts since members could tap a report button and all moderators would get the report (and we loosely stayed in touch about who would be around when to jump in for a quick minute if needed), but the recurring huge spammers were dealt with by the techs. 

Spam is nonexistent on two non-medical boards I visit. It doesn’t have to be like this. Whether there are sufficient resources or whether Foundation execs think the forum is important enough may be questions, I guess? But there used to be report buttons. You can still contact the Foundation through “About Us” at the upper right – just takes a few steps.

Just my take – YMMV. 

There were 15 pages in a row today; real posts didn’t start until page 15 or 16, so the admins could easily find them in this case! But agree, usually date/title/name helps. I got back an auto-message that they’d be closed Friday through Monday but apparently someone got word and jumped in to remove them.