The Spam-Bots are KILLIN me, son!

[Sister Havana]

Wow, there's a giant new batch of spam tonight. Although if one of the phone number spam messages was for a spell to nuke spammers forever, I'd be OK with that.

[ChioLu]

Spammers -- we don't have any relationship problems on this board. Go somewhere else!

[ChioLu]

Sorry for the double post, but the spam posts are now at several per minute. GC is drowning in a sea of Spam-Bots. :- (

[sigmagirl2000]

....I should really start writing down the titles of the threads I want to check back on... because I'll never find them otherwise.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

thank you for the cleanup

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by AlphaXi1997

I am happy to volunteer as an additional person to delete the spam posts! I typically log onto GreekChat at the very end of my day and lately the whole first page is full of spam. Please let me know how I can help!

I wish I could help clean up the spam posts. Being in the timezone I'm in, it would be easy for me to keep everything looking nice for when everyone wakes up in the morning!

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by AlphaXi1997

I am happy to volunteer as an additional person to delete the spam posts! I typically log onto GreekChat at the very end of my day and lately the whole first page is full of spam. Please let me know how I can help!

Many, many, many of us have offered to help. It looks like John, who is MIA, is the only one that can grant that authority. Without privileges to deal with spam, no one else can help.

[chi-o_cat]

I think the answer is right here in front of us…GC needs to hire a “black magic specialist” to get rid of all the spam on the forums!

[aephi alum]

Indeed. The spam is out of control. I'd be more than willing to grab my pulse pistol and get rid of some of the spam posts ... except I'm about one pulse pistol short of having a pulse pistol. All I can do is keep the AEPhi forum clear.

#beenwatchingtoomuchFarscape

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

Indeed. The spam is out of control. I'd be more than willing to grab my pulse pistol and get rid of some of the spam posts ... except I'm about one pulse pistol short of having a pulse pistol. All I can do is keep the AEPhi forum clear.

Ditto here on all of the above, but I can keep the AOII forum clear. The mods are doing what we can, but many of us only have permissions in our individual GLO subforums. I'm sure most everyone knows this, but just in case thought I'd mention again.

[AZTheta]

14 pages of "new threads" and the majority (>95%) are spam posts.

This is beyond absurd.

[tinydancer]

And I still don't understand why there is not a method for preventing the spam threads from being posted in the first place.

[sigmagirl2000]

Is there no one here who has direct contact information for John so that someone else can take over or get more people who have offered to help repeatedly access to be able k clear spam?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

People have tried contacting John at his work email, and it bounced back.

[Munchkin03]

What if we just abandoned this site? Start a new site, close the active boards here, and just start over again? John isn't doing what he should, and even the active mods are limited in what they can do.