The posts about witchcraft ,spells and the like .

Whiff

I reported an advert that appeared on the health forum in the early hours. Via GN report system . Just had an email from the company I reported. Have asked GNHQ who has access to our email addresses?

Oh dear oh dear.

Did the email appear as spam to you, or in your junk box?
Not that that is the most important question here at all.

Whiff

I reported an advert that appeared on the health forum in the early hours. Via GN report system . Just had an email from the company I reported. Have asked GNHQ who has access to our email addresses?

Whoa - that's worrying

Whiff

I reported an advert that appeared on the health forum in the early hours. Via GN report system . Just had an email from the company I reported. Have asked GNHQ who has access to our email addresses?

Thai is very unsettling, Whiff.

I reported an advert that appeared on the health forum in the early hours. Via GN report system . Just had an email from the company I reported. Have asked GNHQ who has access to our email addresses?

Another three just popped up, I reported them straight away and they were deleted, titles too, immediately. Well done GN. Perhaps they’ve worked out how to do it!

Perhaps they have applied whatever Mumsnet does.

Why would they not have done that months or years ago?

I messaged them twice at the start of this attack, Whiff saying exactly what you did. While a title remains in the list, someone will look at it, and be tempted to tell them what they think.

I think there is a delay while they do whatever it is they do to ban the poster and label the new thread for deleting, before it gets deleted. If someone has just come on shift and is looking through their emails, there could be another delay.

Getting the programmer to add a filter to automatically zap the obvious troublemakers probably means getting an outside company to do the coding - I have always got the impression that Gransnet itself doesn't have any in-house programmers, they take so long to change anything.

There seems to be a lull at the moment. Perhaps they have applied whatever Mumsnet does.

Marydoll

I can understand the suggestion not to to post reported,
However, if there is no indication that a thread has been reported, HQ may receive multiple reports about one thread. That then clogs up their system and instead of dealing with the spam, they are having to delete these reports. 😉

Perhaps HQ might be induced to comment on this, because that's what I feel, too.

What would they prefer, one report or multiple reports?

I didn't put report on any of those posts just reported them to GNHQ via the report button on at the top of the post on desk top site.

Calendargirl

Marydoll

I can understand the suggestion not to to post reported,
However, if there is no indication that a thread has been reported, HQ may receive multiple reports about one thread. That then clogs up their system and instead of dealing with the spam, they are having to delete these reports. 😉

Yes, I have posted ‘reported’, because if not, you just don’t know if anyone has bothered to.

At least you are sure then that HQ are aware.

Exactly!!

nanna8

I think I might have to go until they sort this out. It is boring, rude and intrusive.

I am a bit of the same mind.

Marydoll

I can understand the suggestion not to to post reported,
However, if there is no indication that a thread has been reported, HQ may receive multiple reports about one thread. That then clogs up their system and instead of dealing with the spam, they are having to delete these reports. 😉

Yes, I have posted ‘reported’, because if not, you just don’t know if anyone has bothered to.

At least you are sure then that HQ are aware.

I can understand the suggestion not to to post reported,
However, if there is no indication that a thread has been reported, HQ may receive multiple reports about one thread. That then clogs up their system and instead of dealing with the spam, they are having to delete these reports. 😉

Excellent - I have been saying that for days

I’ve tried starting a new thread suggesting posters report without saying anything on the scam thread.

I think I might have to go until they sort this out. It is boring, rude and intrusive.

It would be good if we could just delete them from our own devices so we wouldn’t have to look at the damn things.

Definitely, I am not posting reported on any of these threads.

Grannynannywanny

It’s a lost cause. Posters are working their way through the scam posts and posting “Reported” on them and keeping them active. We need to all report them but say nothing on the scam thread.

Absolutely!

It’s a lost cause. Posters are working their way through the scam posts and posting “Reported” on them and keeping them active. We need to all report them but say nothing on the scam thread.

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Crumbs. There is even more of them now.

So far this morning I’ve reported 11 new ones which have appeared in the past hour on the “Unanswered Thread”

I’ve not posted “Reported” on them to avoid any activity that will make them move from there to “Active”