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Are we finally free of spam messages?

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
December 22, 2013
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I have just noticed that there is no active thread for reporting spam, as the one we were using, Spam report thread [7] has now been archived and no new one has been created. Does this mean that the new security measures have made it impossible to post spam in these forums?

It is true that I have not seen any spam message in the last few weeks, but the forums I frequent are a tine fraction of the whole list. And in any case, I think that the new login process, that seems to work randomly but unpleasantly, is to high a price to pay for the lack of spam messages. There are no security problems in the forums.adobe.com forums so there is really no reason to make it so difficult to login in them...

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Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

I believe this from Pat,

(or mods being subscribed to that topic will get an email message)

covers it well.

And I have also (mis)understood that the thread reporting was encouraged. So much so that I have never used the button, choosing the other option.

Claudio GonzálezAuthor

Legend

Jacob, my point is that I didn't know mods have the power do disable users/accounts and go even further. If they do, then a Spam thread is redundant.

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

Claudio,

Simple MOD's cannot disable an account - but they CAN report to an Adobe Administrator, who can, and usually will.

Just for clarification.

Hunt

Claudio GonzálezAuthor

Legend

Someone is spamming the forums by posting a link to a commercial site, but there is no Report spam forum to report this. I have used the Report button for one of these messages, but don't have the time to try to report each one of them separately.

John T Smith

Community Expert

So... start a new Report Spam message in this forum and see if a MOD pays attention and lock's the spammer's account

Claudio GonzálezAuthor

Legend

Sorry, but I refuse to open yet another new one. One would expect a member of the staff or a mod to take the initiative.

Phillip M Jones

Inspiring

I don't know whether there is no spam or they made it such a PIA to get in it's not worth it.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

I have seen no spam for a long time either, Claudio.

But I have noticed that at least some threads are suddenly archived quite early, much earlier than earlier, the Spam thread after less than a month and a half.

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