Just to break up the page a bit

[The Ghost]

Good morning fellow sparks. Thought I would just do a post to at least begin to move down the indecipherable stuff I found on the page today. So here it is. I often wonder what is the motive of the people causing this inconvenience. I wonder if the advertisers think "Mhmm, this forum aint too good for my business with all this double dutch all over it" Anyway that's it for now.

 

[SJD]

I really don't understand why new users can't be subject to some kind of initial moderation, for example limited to 1 or 2 posts for the first day, long enough for admin to sus out if they are legit or spammers.

 

[Squid]

Put them on ignore and they all disappear as if by magic.

 

[Midwest]

Arrrhh well, least it makes us go off and do other stuff, stop us from spending all day on here! Light snow in Oxfordshire

 

[Midwest]

Put them on ignore and they all disappear as if by magic.

Doesn't it straight away on my PC. Takes a few hours?

 

[Squid]

Doesn't it straight away on my PC. Takes a few hours?

Refresh the browser.

 

[SJD]

I've put them on ignore, but now when I click on "New Posts" I only see 2 threads, presumably because the software only looks at so many, and filters the ignores, and there's little else left.

Plus an infrequent or new user wouldn't know to do that, they'd just assume the forum is broken and go elsewhere.

I did also wonder can it is not possible to have the forum filter out any posts with kanji characters, since I only want to see posts in English.

 

[Spoon]

Good morning fellow sparks. Thought I would just do a post to at least begin to move down the indecipherable stuff I found on the page today. So here it is. I often wonder what is the motive of the people causing this inconvenience. I wonder if the advertisers think "Mhmm, this forum aint too good for my business with all this double dutch all over it" Anyway that's it for now.

I asked this question in another post and @SparkyChick did a great answer, as usual. See post #16
Spammers - A suggestion for quick resolution - https://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/threads/spammers-a-suggestion-for-quick-resolution.129958/page-2

 

[Midwest]

Refresh the browser.

I do, bit of an exacerbation, but got 'ignored' stuff on my page 30+mins old. Refresh, close and return, still there.

 

[Loki]

I do, bit of an exacerbation, but got 'ignored' stuff on my page 30+mins old. Refresh, close and return, still there.

Same here when I click ignore.

 

[Squid]

If we can locate the address where the spammers are operating from then I have a contact in the Russian Embassy who was on a business trip to Salisbury last week that could send them "something"

 

[Adam W]

If you like darts, quiz shows, nostalgia or the 1980s, there's a day of Bullseye on Challenge in memory of Jim Bowen.

 

[PEG]

Anyway lads...you don't really know,if all those Chinese posts,are innocent householders,who have RCD issues,and their electrician is on "holiday"...