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Discussion in 'PriusChat Website Questions' started by dolj, Sep 6, 2017.

  1. dolj

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    Danny, @Tideland Prius ,

    Just a heads up: A spam bot is hitting the Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting forum at the rate of 1 per second. Up to about 6 pages of spam so far.

    Users are dsg1210, dsg12101 and dptwl41751
     
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    I thoght it was North Korea's cyber attack. :(
     
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  4. JimboPalmer

    JimboPalmer Tsar of all the Rushers

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    First I report them, as spam
    Then I click the blue square their avatar would be in and chose ignore.
    Now I click New Posts in the top blue bar and ALL post and threads by that name are gone forever (for me).
     
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    I reported the first one two hours ago.
    The flood continues.
    If the owner doesn't care, why should WE ??

    This should be easy to stop......for anybody with Moderator permissions.
     
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    JimboPalmer Tsar of all the Rushers

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    And when the moderators wake up, I am sure they will clean it up.
     
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    I have the same problem. How do we get this stopped?
     
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    Follow @JimboPalmer suggestion. You have to do it for several differnet user names spam bot is using, but they will be gone from the new post in your view.
    Better yet, a moderator seems to have taken care of the situation. He has cleaned all the post and blocked the spam user accounts.
     
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    Notify Danny or a moderator, which was the reason for the thread.
     
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    Yay, victory. (n)
     
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    This was reported at 2:59am. Then at 5:43 the moderator is flamed. JimboPalmer- thanks for the rational approach to the issue. I have been ignoring folks for years.
     
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