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RoadTest Spam

dragonstyne

Recently,  I have received ridiculous amount of RoadTest spawned Spam. It's inundating my email box. The post appears to be locked, but it's still getting sent out as an email notification.

 

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-Steve

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  • Always a problem on relatively open forums. They can ban accounts, but the spammers will just keep signing up on new accounts. Usually on forums the first 10 posts are moderated until the account can be trusted. I believe E14 uses custom forum software, so I'm not sure that facility is available.

  • in reply to dragonstyne

    element14 were meant to be putting mechanisms in place but its very silent.

    We have suggested limits and other systems to try to either restrict or limit the spammers, but it seems using the members as reporters works.

     

    They have become clever and used the status message to provide it, and you can't report it.

    They are also clever an know when element14 aren't 'on duty' and tend to hit then.

     

    Having zero point members able to sign and enter Road Tests is not the best way to build a community IMO.

     

     

    Mark

  • in reply to mcb1

    Agree, and that is a whole other topic, establish a standing within the community slowly earning the ability to enter for better and better road tests would be nice, but many of the more expensive road test entries are evaluated by the manufacturers, not E14 and they may not even look to the community standing ?, I don't know exactly how it works but based on the assignment of the last oscilloscopes it looks that way

  • in reply to Robert Peter Oakes

    Its not just the last Road Test, if you look back its a good few of them. Also if you look you will see that a large number of uncompleted Road Tests are by < level 3. As for manufactures choosing Element14 could outline who they can choose ie only choose proven members and ones that have not had the a similar product before (last road test had a guy who one a scope already).

     

    As a side note there are still no posts from that road test...

  • in reply to kas.lewis

    Another day, another dozen+ spams... Its just like the 1990s all over again.

     

    I thought I had put together a well researched and structured case for the Tek MDO3K, so the other applications must have been phenomenally good!

  • in reply to Zad

    I also thought I put together a really good proposal, even added publishing dates (definitely NOT two+ weeks after getting the unit) for the first post. I think the community (at least the guys who have put in a lot of time and energy here) are going to get more and more annoyed if level < 3 members keep winning the big road tests... Just my thoughts.

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  • in reply to Zad

    I also thought I put together a really good proposal, even added publishing dates (definitely NOT two+ weeks after getting the unit) for the first post. I think the community (at least the guys who have put in a lot of time and energy here) are going to get more and more annoyed if level < 3 members keep winning the big road tests... Just my thoughts.

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