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sodapop Sat 14-Sept-24 14:17:29

Hardly worth logging to Gransnet recently with all the rubbish that's clogging it up.
There must be ways of keeping all this crap unwanted spam off our screens

Elegran Sat 14-Sept-24 14:20:46

If the poster has joined in exactly the same way as any of us have, they can post exactly the same way that we have.

The only way to get ride of a poster is by reporting their post as soon as it appears, so that the moderators can delete it and block the poster - so it is better to act than to complain on the threads.

karmalady Sat 14-Sept-24 14:26:10

OP is not wrong re GN being rubbish. Some of the best posters have gone

YorkLady Sat 14-Sept-24 14:27:12

I find it easier to leave it for a few hours and return when normal service has been resumed 😁

Marydoll Sat 14-Sept-24 14:29:12

I agree with Elegran.

I have already reported five SPAM ones in the last hour. Surely I cannot be the only one, who has seen them.

What makes the best posters? I do miss certain people, but there are still many informed and interesting posters on threads.

Elegran Sat 14-Sept-24 14:31:45

But wrong in thinking that the mods can get rid of the spam posts without screening every single one of the hundreds of innocent posts too.

Would posters be happy with a delay while their post is checked by hand before it is published? Or if it is automatically checked by a robot and rejected if it contains one of a list of trigger words that might mean that it is spam or trolling? If you couldn't say hippopotamus in case the robot thought you were advertising pot and banned you?

Elegran Sat 14-Sept-24 14:32:30

That was a reply to karmalady

Beckett Sat 14-Sept-24 14:54:13

The moderators can't be working 24 hours a day, perhaps a solution would be for any reported post to be automatically blocked until a moderator has had time to check it.

welbeck Sat 14-Sept-24 17:37:06

i don't think there is any overview of GN, unless someone reports a post.
they are all too busy monitoring MN; that's where the money is.