topic Looks Like Site Was SPAMed in General Discussion

Looks Like Site Was SPAMed

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:48:18 GMT

A raft of SPAM postings this morning.

Re: Looks Like Site Was SPAMed

SamanthaW — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:49:45 GMT

We're doing our best to clear it!

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deebatman316 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:09:41 GMT

Yes I saw a bunch of it this morning. Reported as much as I could to Forum Moderators.

Re: Looks Like Site Was SPAMed

SamanthaW — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:11:04 GMT

Yep, we definitely see them, no need for more reports on this particular batch. ❤️

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deebatman316 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:16:03 GMT

The General Discussion Forum was hit bad too. Not just DSLR and Mirrorless.

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SamanthaW — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:17:19 GMT

We're slowly but surely working through it all!

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deebatman316 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:19:36 GMT

I know you Stephen and the other Forum Moderators have been swamped.

Re: Looks Like Site Was SPAMed

SamanthaW — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:20:44 GMT

We're competing for who handles the most at the end of this!

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deebatman316 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:21:56 GMT

Well someone will be on top at the end. Who knows who it will be.

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SamanthaW — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:15:56 GMT

Danny swept the floor with me! He almost tripled my total 😂 We're done with the main sweep and are following up with each board now to be sure it's done. No further reports needed for now, but if you see a random link later, please feel free to let us know!

Re: Looks Like Site Was SPAMed

deebatman316 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:23:17 GMT

I don’t know how the forum had a massive amount of SPAM posts overnight. I was expecting camera stuff not random SPAM posts throughout the forum.

Re: Looks Like Site Was SPAMed

Danny — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:00:03 GMT

We've been investigating what happened and implementing some new safeguards on the backend to make it harder for bots to get in. We think we've got it under control, but again, if you see something, say something!

Re: Looks Like Site Was SPAMed

Stephen — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:06:39 GMT

If a bot managed to flood us with multiple posts, please don't feel the need to report every single post from the same bot. Multiple posts from different bots, please report away!! 😊