The Coffee House

[Warhorse]

What turned out to be the problem snowbear?

 

[snowbear]

Not really sure but they did snake out to the sewer, like the last time. I guess we'll all get letters from the leasing office if someone did something stupid like flush wipes.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Poor Zoe!

Sharon it was some familiar looking arena, my hockey radar went off. Will have to search the Boston colleges and find it.

 

[Jeff15]

hi all BST here whats up with the site awhole load of threads that in in chinese/or sumthing////

There is lots more spam on this forum than most others, Something is going wrong....

 

[SquarePeg]

There is lots more spam on this forum than most others, Something is going wrong....

You see it more than some of the others because of the time zone difference. Currently, most of the mods are in the US on east coast time.

 

[Jeff15]

As I have said previously we need mods on both sides of the pond.....

 

[snowbear]

We are working on it.

 

[Rickbb]

2 other forums I’m in have also been plagued with them in the past 2weeks.

Homeland Security has been shutting down bot nets so they are ramping up attacks to regain some more hosts to make up for it. Or so I’ve been told by someone that should know.

 

[limr]

There's always a lag between the time when the spam bots learn new tricks and anti-spam measures catch up.

It's clearly spam, we all know it's spam, and I hope no one here is silly enough to click on a link for CBD gummies or keto pills or Mumbai escorts or something written almost entirely in Chinese. So it may be an inconvenience to spend an hour or two scrolling past spam threads until a mod can get to it, but it's not the end of the world.

We would have to have a lot more moderators in every time zone who never left their computers if we wanted to catch every piece of spam before members noticed, and even then, a few would slip through during these attack periods. We also do still manage to catch a lot of messages before they see the light of day.

 

[snowbear]

The Mod Squad catches the majority of the spammers. Normally, the vast majority is caught and stays in queue waiting to be approved, which are never seen by the users. I think most realize that eventually, this will pass or be grabbed by the filters.

 

[Jeff15]

I have an idea although this must have been thought of already? Why not ask new members for a verifiable email address?

 

[terri]

I have an idea although this must have been thought of already? Why not ask new members for a verifiable email address?

Email isn't the problem, Jeff. If it's questionable or with many duplicates here, it gets swept up and into the moderator queue, which isn't visible. Same with suspect IP addresses, though unique IPs can and do slip by, but those are also easily captured. The onslaught is by bots and has been widely noticed and is being addressed. You seem to be very focused on whipping the mods over this, and I'm sorry it bothers you so much.

 

[SquarePeg]

Happy almost Friday Hosers! Time to turn the Coffee House focus back to where it belongs - chit chat!

I’m obsessively watching the Kwanzan Cherry tree that I planted last fall waiting for it to flower. There are so many little blooms waiting to open right now!! I’m so happy about this. I was really worried I might have killed the tree last year when I planted it and then I did some research and realized all the things I had done wrong… So I dug it up and planted it again! It was a lot of extra work and risky but so happy that I did because it looks so healthy and has so many buds!!! Planting in the fall is preferred but it’s a long wait to see how you did.

 

[Jeff15]

I am not criticizing anyone, all that I am saying is that we need mods on both sides of the pond.....

 

[snowbear]

We are working on it. Having a hard time finding someone to pass the background investigation.