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GlennE.Chatfield

Hey Ken, check out the forum post on "X-28A" - the last poster put on a long advertisement with links, which has nothing to do with aviation.

DougRobertson

Glenn, I just opened a Support Ticket re the problem-I found three unrelated blogs by the same person. There is another miscreant, also, writing lengthy meaningless blogs who has inserted web links. I recommend NO ONE CLICK ON ANY OF THESE LINKS!

GlennE.Chatfield

Some people are just plain evil!

DougRobertson

Under Events topic- there is another lengthy, meaningless blogger replying? to my 2009 California Airshow forum entry-user name Iuyi00882 and I recommend no one click on the web links by that blogger Iuyioo882. I believe that person has another rambling blog in another thread, also.

Ztex

I sent Ken a PM a few days ago when I noticed this stuff...he must be out of town.

Ken Wang

We are never lack of boring people. :( The spam posts have been deleted. Thanks all for the heads-up.

Ken

THoff

It wasn't so much an advertisement as it was an attempt to boost the site's ranking in search engines by creating as many unique links to the site as possible. The better search engines aren't fooled by such nonsense, but that doesn't stop SEO (Search Engine Optimization) companies from charging fools money for something that doesn't work anyway.

I was trying to report the posts when I saw them, but this site doesn't have a "report this post" link that most forums do.

DougRobertson

Ken, one of those rambling, meaningless off-topic blogs is still in the Events Forum under my 2009 California Airshows/Events entry. Shouldn't the Topic moderators be active in this?

mkiogima

There is one here also:

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1097

Bluedharma

Another one from Gikoou1132

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3144&sid=707d79deb5bf266ed81b462a710c4b61#3144

Can we feed these guys to the wolves?

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/search.php?search_author=Gikoou1132

Ztex

Another one here....

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/topic1006.html

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/topic360.html

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/topic783.html

Ken Wang

Thanks for reporting. All ad posts are deleted, and the user account removed.

Ken

Ztex

More Spam....

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/topic783.html

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/topic884.html

Ken you may have to set up a separate, verifiable, return receipt, forum signup procedure to defeat these spammers...

Ztex

A couple of more....

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/topic957.html

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/topic1119.html

Bluedharma

And it is back!!!

Yotie5934l

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3161#3161

and

Hoppi10594

http://www.airport-data.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3169#3169

GlennE.Chatfield

These spams are all over the place today. I went through lots of forum posts and almost everything with a date of March has a spam!

Ken, you poor guy, how do we keep this junk out?!?!?!?

mkiogima

A couple more:

Here and here

Bluedharma

nikecon hit the site rather hard.

Ztex

Spam on a forum is somewhat preventable if the permission to post has a requirement of responding to an e-mail sent to a provided address or upon approval from an administrator.

It has to be changed soon or the forum will be nothing but spam.

Instant access is wonderful until the spam jerks find you....then it is relentless.

Bluedharma

Ken,

I am in the site about 3 times each day... give or take.

I would be happy to assist or "Mod" some of these if you want.

(delete any spam...only spam from the forums as they pop up).

Let me know if I can be of some help, or if there is some type of vetting process I need to go through.

Best Regards,