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Constant scam posts-why?

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Grandmabatty Tue 30-Apr-24 14:03:48

Why is gransnet so often afflicted by these? I count eight today. Mumsnet don't appear to have this problem.

tickingbird Thu 02-May-24 08:23:20

This is ridiculous. They need to get a handle on this as GN is becoming unreadable - abortion pills in the ME now.

LucyAnna Thu 02-May-24 08:24:29

Bump

Fairislecable Thu 02-May-24 08:24:52

Bump

Bridie22 Thu 02-May-24 08:25:10

Bump

Astitchintime Thu 02-May-24 08:27:56

nanaK54

I have no idea, but I do wish people would not bother to post 'reported', this only keeps them on the active board, I have reported without needing to say that I have done so.

Point taken nana, I won't bother in future smile

MaizieD Thu 02-May-24 08:31:08

I was thinking that it might be worth opening thr forums and bumping the thread below them. Just to get rid of them from the 'Active' list.

Marydoll Thu 02-May-24 08:32:40

They haven't researched the demographics of their audience. I don't suppose they will get many sales. 😂

The content is certainly bizarre.

nanaK54 Thu 02-May-24 08:37:07

Bump

Cabbie21 Thu 02-May-24 08:40:29

Any OP full of links could surely be deleted automatically I would have thought.

Sparklefizz Thu 02-May-24 08:48:14

Where is Admin for goodness sake???

Elegran Thu 02-May-24 08:57:30

Strategic bump for t***l avoidance. That was fun, only took a few minutes, pasting the same post that I had copied.

On my emails, I can automatically +filter incoming messages for trigger words in the from, title or message fields, and send any that contain them to specific folders, or just delete them unseen.

There must be ways that the GN website can automatically do the same for posts containing trigger words - like "cytotec" for example, which appears in the title of most of these spam posts. Then they would'nt fill up the forums. Being crafty b*****s the spammers probably change the title frequently so as not to have this happen, but alert moderators could add new trigger words to the filter as they appear.

Elegran Thu 02-May-24 08:58:30

Admin have already deleted a whole bunch of them earlier this morning, they are probably having a coffee break.

Pittcity Thu 02-May-24 09:57:20

GNHQ only seem to be deleting the content, the headlines are still there blocking the feed.

ixion Thu 02-May-24 10:02:13

Pittcity

GNHQ only seem to be deleting the content, the headlines are still there blocking the feed.

Why do they do this, Pittcity and not complete the job? Do you know?,

Grayling1 Thu 02-May-24 10:13:03

I have never seen any of the posts or adverts being discussed!!! My DD installed an Ad-block which obviously is very effective. I would say that I sometimes get a message to remove my Ad-block to go further to proceed with whatever but I usually just close up that up and do what I want to do using another area. I do Facebook, Hotmail, Internet shopping, etc on my chromebook. My mobile phone is just that much to the disgust of my famil as I have been "computer literate" since the mid 70's - I just don't want one in my pocket!

Tizliz Thu 02-May-24 11:06:40

Interesting subjects - love potions and abortion pills

LilyGransnet (GNHQ) Thu 02-May-24 11:35:01

Hi all

Just to let you know, we've posted a thread here www.gransnet.com/forums/site_stuff/1335339-Spam-threads-a-message-from-GNHQ

We're aware of these annoying spammers and are currently having discussions about how we can prevent this.

Thanks for your patience.

Pittcity Thu 02-May-24 11:40:50

Thank you Lily.
I think we are trying to battle them by adding to threads and knocking them off the Active page.
They are now adding posts to old threads as well as adding new ones.....

sodapop Thu 02-May-24 12:17:00

I'm fed up with these stupid posts, think I'll give GN a miss today.

MissInterpreted Thu 02-May-24 12:17:58

Hopefully GNHQ can do something about them - almost the entire first page of the 'active' threads was full of them earlier today.

Cossy Thu 02-May-24 12:24:06

Bump

Oopsadaisy1 Fri 03-May-24 05:43:40

Now they are in the middle of normal posts as well!

I think I might give GN a miss whilst we are away, give Them time to sort this mess out.

BlueBelle Fri 03-May-24 05:51:11

HQ really don’t have a handle on this at all do they ?
I don’t see it’s that bad that you need to remove yourselves just ignore them and keep posting on the genuine posts

Oopsadaisy1 Fri 03-May-24 06:17:57

BlueBelle

HQ really don’t have a handle on this at all do they ?
I don’t see it’s that bad that you need to remove yourselves just ignore them and keep posting on the genuine posts

We are on holiday for 2 weeks anyway, so I won’t be around so much. It seems an ideal time to take a break.

Pittcity Fri 03-May-24 06:50:20

....and still they come.....