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  • eidnolb
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    481. eidnolb,
    Apr 6, 2011 7:22 PM   in reply to Jochem van Dieten
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    Report abuse feature giving errors. Whether anyone considers this Spam I don't know. I do however.

     

    This person created a thread as a "Fix" on 4/5/11. Now today, they are copying and posting that "Fix" on several threads.

     

    Completely disregarding (if even reading) the thread issue.

     

    This may be the same person that we had about 5 weeks ago that did the same thing.(different name)

     

    http://forums.adobe.com/people/imaref11

     

     

     

     

    Thanks,

     

    eidnolb

     

     

                                  EDIT: Never mind, I took care of it. I don't know why I reported this, since I can't expect you to remove a "Post" LOL

                                            Long week for me:-)

                                  Thanks.

     

    Message was edited by: eidnolb  a disregard

     
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  • eidnolb
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    482. eidnolb,
    Apr 6, 2011 6:59 PM   in reply to mytaxsite.co.uk
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    Hi DWILCOX01, I agree with your first paragraph. The problem with the many spammers on a Forum is how they can take over the entire Forum and make it unusable which Pat pointed out. We had 24 spam threads on Page 1 and 12 on Page 2. The threads then aren't updating. A spammer creates the thread and another spammer replies to it. That is the problem with them.

     

    One can normally tell which thread is spam.  But just doing that is time consuming and interferes with the flow of the threads, not to mention not being able to spend that time helping the people. That is the whole point of volunteering, helping others and not reporting spam.

     

    I don't know of anyone that reads spam that is a volunteer on any of the Forums:-)

     

     

     

    Just my point of view

     

     

    eidnolb

     

    And Yes, I'd like to have authority to at least "suspend" them until those that have the authority can remove them.

     
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  • Kami Bambiraptor
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    483. Kami Bambiraptor,
    Apr 7, 2011 6:55 AM   in reply to Jochem van Dieten
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    Daily spam attacks (they seem to come at the same time every night) commencing in the L

    ounge about <this software is excement> an hour ago.

     

    Here's one spammer:

     

    http://forums.adobe.com/people/kaboomleftandright

     

    And here's the other:

     

    http://forums.adobe.com/people/AhundredTodayOnly

     

    Four spam threads so far, with posts in them which doubtlessly contain more spam. I fully expect that in the morning there shall be about 10 spam posts, and an additional spammer. I'd love to be pleasantly surprised.

     

    [Edit: I am pleasantly surprised. ]

     
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  • Pat Willener
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    484. Pat Willener,
    Apr 6, 2011 9:12 PM   in reply to mytaxsite.co.uk
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    DWILCOX01 wrote:

    I have become immune to these spammers because I don't read things that

    I am not interested in.  I just look at the subject heading;  if it

    looks interesting then I open it otherwise I pass over it.

    These spammers are not interested in you or anyone else reading their droppings.

    Their sole intention is getting their links picked up by search engines to increase the ranking of their spam sites.

     

    They know that it often takes days to remove spam from this particular forum, so this is one of their favorite playgrounds.

     

    If spam can be removed quickly, the search engines have no time to pick up the links, and the spammers will lose their interest in spamming here.

     

    The solution really is to remove spam quickly, e.g. by giving more regulars the power to remove or hide spam posts.

     

     

    I have been offered to become a "Adobe Community Champion"; I do not really know what this implies, i.e. if these members can eliminate spam...?

     
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  • Jochem van Dieten
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    485. Jochem van Dieten,
    Apr 6, 2011 9:48 PM   in reply to Pat Willener
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    ʇɐb ɹəuəllıʍ wrote on 11/04/07 06:12:

    They know that it often takes days to remove spam from this particular forum, so this is one of their favorite playgrounds.

     

    There are some forums where it takes days or even weeks before spam is

    reported. Once spam is reported through the "Report abuse" function it

    is typically removed within 3 hours.

     

     

    The solution really is to remove spam quickly, e.g. by giving more regulars the power to remove or hide spam posts.

     

    I have been offered to become a "Adobe Community Champion"; I do not really know what this implies, i.e. if these members can eliminate spam...?

     

    ACCs can't. But for an ACC to become a moderator is a mere formality (PM

    John) and moderators can.

     
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  • Niall O\'Donovan
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    486. Niall O\'Donovan,
    Apr 7, 2011 2:41 AM   in reply to Jochem van Dieten
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    Spammer in LiveCycle forums: http://forums.adobe.com/people/kyoDK

     

    Niall

     
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    487. Marian Driscoll,
    Apr 7, 2011 8:01 AM   in reply to Jochem van Dieten
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    Perhaps the Adobe "Web Design" forum should just be shut down. It is too inviting of spam. Many posts are from 1-posters using the Adobe forums to boost their link popularity. They post their URL and ask for feedback but fail to engage in any further communication.

     

    Here's an example...

    http://forums.adobe.com/people/Coen%20Walstra

    (see all their spammy posts from the past 8 months)

     

    And then there are spammers that inject their spammy URL in their replies to the original spammer:

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/2988899#2988899

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/3051328#3051328

     
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  • Noel Carboni
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    488. Noel Carboni,
    Apr 7, 2011 10:25 AM   in reply to Marian Driscoll
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    Just curious:  Other than an ongoing discussion of spam, how is posting in this thread more helpful than clicking the Report Abuse link on the actual posts?

     

    -Noel

     
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  • adobe-admin
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    489. adobe-admin,
    Apr 7, 2011 10:29 AM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    I get email notifications from this thread, so can jump right on it without having to sift through various abuse reports.

     
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    490. Marian Driscoll,
    Apr 7, 2011 10:30 AM   in reply to Noel Carboni
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    I believe the report abuse links are a good first form of report. But they might apply to only a single post and only show an isolated issue to a moderator.

     

    This thread might be used to document the systematic abuse of the forums by a user that has made multiple spam posts.

     

    And of course, this thread provides the image that Adobe is concerned about spam.

     
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  • Noel Carboni
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    491. Noel Carboni,
    Apr 8, 2011 6:55 AM   in reply to adobe-admin
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    Here's an interesting case:  He claims to be Chinese and either anti-piracy or at best neutral (hard to tell because of poor English), yet he has posted links to cracked software.

     

    http://forums.adobe.com/people/29050801

     

    Not sure whether he's a spammer or not, but at best the links he posts ought to be removed.

     

    -Noel

     
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  • Pat Willener
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    492. Pat Willener,
    Apr 8, 2011 6:46 PM   in reply to Jochem van Dieten
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    http://forums.adobe.com/people/hbuiks%20buisad

     
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  • Kami Bambiraptor
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    493. Kami Bambiraptor,
    Apr 11, 2011 6:58 AM   in reply to Jochem van Dieten
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    14 hour old spam in the lounge from this person:

     

    http://forums.adobe.com/people/Ahundredbuckzz

     

    It's beginning to attract flies & should probably be thrown out.

     
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  • Bill Hunt
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    495. Bill Hunt,
    Apr 11, 2011 8:07 AM   in reply to dave milbut
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    Dave,

     

    Ya beat me to the punch. Most activity that we've had in The Lounge in some time - and it's all spam.

     

    Also, looks like there is a tandem of ID's: http://forums.adobe.com/people/celietuten

     

    Thanks,

     

    Hunt

     
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  • Kami Bambiraptor
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    496. Kami Bambiraptor,
    Apr 11, 2011 11:05 AM   in reply to Kami Bambiraptor
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    Kami Bambiraptor wrote:

     

    14 hour old spam in the lounge from this person:

     

    http://forums.adobe.com/people/Ahundredbuckzz

     

    It's beginning to attract flies & should probably be thrown out.

     

    So, I reported this spammer four hours ago, and then Dave reported the spammer, and, yet, the spam (all seven threads of it) sti

    ll remains. I've been known to be a little on the over-sensitive side at times, but I must say that I find it kind of insulting that

    no one has had the time to attend to removing the spam. I must conclude that the only reason I am reporting spam is bec

    ause <my god, this excementious software i

    s REALLY giving me the line breaks today> I am an idiot. A maroon. A nin......com........pooop!

     
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