Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
There's another spam attack happening now in Info Desk: "love problems" with phne numbers.
Is there an easy way to see whether there are any senior mods on FT, given that the forum mods aren't around now?
Originally Posted by
aBroadAbroad
The mod team and FT admins have been collaborating closely on the recent spam increases over the past few months, and speaking as a moderator of one of the most heavily targeted forums, I think those efforts have been
hugely successful. In fact, we've achieved such a dramatic reduction in the number and frequency of the attacks, I personally don't think FT even has a significant spam problem any longer. At least not for the timebeing
...plus, all moderators have the ability to permanently suspend the posting privileges of “spammers” who attack any forum on FlyerTalk.
I was the one who spotted that attack this morning and quashed it as soon as possible; but only Senior Moderators, the Community Director, and certain administrative staff of Internet Brands can delete content in forums which are assigned to specific moderators — as it should be.
Although there were at least a dozen threads launched by that “spammer”, I am confident that FlyerTalk members would not patronize what was being advertised. As
aBroadAbroad correctly posted — the content posted generally presented no immediate threat to FlyerTalk members; and she cleaned up the mess dumped in that forum within a couple of hours at most.
Lastly, the best way to see who is on FlyerTalk — as well as options on how to contact them — is to access
View Forum Leaders. To access this, hover your cursor over the FORUM menu option at the top of virtually every “page” on FlyerTalk; then click on the first option called
Forum Home. Then, scroll down to near the bottom to find
View Forum Leaders as one of the two options in the dark blue bar.
I hope that all of this helps...