Members -- Please Don't Feed The Spammers

[Jeremy]

Been a while! People have started replying again. Please don't! Thanks!

[davintosh]

Time for a bump?

http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=141776

We're not "condo" people.

[Shawn D.]

Another member who fed a spammer:

reported

Please simply report it. We don't need to be told you reported it.

[leadphut]

Another member who fed a spammer:

reported

Please simply report it. We don't need to be told you reported it.

--just found this--
d'oh! sorry! mea culpa, mea culpa!

Dealing with some spam issues today, I had an idea (look out now).

As you should all know, you should never respond to a spammer, much less QUOTE them. The reason is simple. When we go in to do "cleanup" and remove the spam account/post/content, having to deal with cleaning up the replies piles on additional work for us. This is all volunteer work, so reducing our workload benefits everyone.

Spam does happen, however. In light of this, here's the most effective way for you to help us deal with it. When you see what you believe to be a spam post, right click the "profile" button under that user's post, then click "Copy Link Location" (FireFox), "Copy shortcut" (Internet Explorer), "Copy link address" (Chrome), or whatever the equivalent in your browser of choice happens to be.

Paste that url into a response in this thread, hit Submit, and you're done.

Thanks!

[stuartinmn]

If you see a spam post, click on the little triangle in the upper right with an exclamation point in it to report it. No response to the post itself is needed.

[Blue Shadow]

If you see a spam post, click on the little triangle in the upper right with an exclamation point in it to report it. No response to the post itself is needed.

Oh man, I totally screwed that up. I lamely thought (my best method of thinking) that the first response saying it was reported would keep more folks from reporting the thread. I guess I got that completely wrong and that I have read this post, I can refrain from mentioning in a spam thread that I reported it. Oh well, maybe I can do better next time.

[Shawn D.]

Quelle?

Kenny, Kenny, Kenny... tsk, tsk!

[oldskool]

Quelle?

Kenny, Kenny, Kenny... tsk, tsk!

It's ok. He's Canadian

[1st 5er]

Quelle?

Kenny, Kenny, Kenny... tsk, tsk!

It's ok. He's Canadian

Not exactly.

[Mike W.]

Quelle?

Kenny, Kenny, Kenny... tsk, tsk!

It's ok. He's Canadian

Californian, Canadian, it's all the same from NC. Right oldskool?

[Kenny Blankenship]

Quelle?

Kenny, Kenny, Kenny... tsk, tsk!

It's ok. He's Canadian

You're thinking of the other Oriental guy...

[Shawn D.]

The two latest folks who fed a spammer:

- oldskool
- duggi

[duggi]

The two latest folks who fed a spammer:

- oldskool
- duggi

Sorry, I couldn't help myself. It won't happen again.

[Nebraska_e28]

The two latest folks who fed a spammer:

- oldskool
- duggi

Thanks for deactivating that guy! Zero tolerance.

[ElGuappo]

The lash falls hard on the backs of duggi & oldskool...see the red blood flow!

[demetk]

The two latest folks who fed a spammer:

- oldskool
- duggi

Sorry, I couldn't help myself. It won't happen again.

I was about to also but I resisted for fear of being shamed.

[duggi]

I was about to also but I resisted for fear of being shamed.

Full disclosure: I should know better. I work in IT Security

[oldskool]

Byte me.

[leadphut]

Byte me.

from his blatant opposition, he's clearly asking for it.

kinky bastard.

[waynet1]

Byte me.

from his blatant opposition, he's clearly asking for it.

kinky bastard.

That was actually a very clever use of the word ' Byte'

[ElGuappo]

No Puns allowed!
The lowest form of humor.

[leadphut]

i don't explain puns to kleptomaniacs. they take things literally.

[davintosh]

No Puns allowed!
The lowest form of humor.

What. Ever. I think of puns as brain exercise.

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/he ... a-pun.html

[Shawn D.]

(spam stuff)

I think that's the first Russian spam bot I've seen...

Better let CNN know they will probably wanna run 6 hours of new about it

[Shawn D.]

(spam stuff -- deleted by Shawn D.)

Wow, are you part Nigerian?

To the OP, if you are asking top dollar for your car a few more pictures would help immensely, starting with pictures of the driver's seat and engine compartment...

Kenny, you know better than this.

[Shawn D.]

(spam stuff -- deleted by Shawn D.)

WHAT??? !!!

Bad Kojo!

[Shawn D.]

(spam stuff -- deleted by Shawn D.)

"Virus of the Universe or the Egg First?"

Dude, Virus of the Universe. Everybody knows that.

Don't feed the spammers, Muleskinner!

[muleskinner]

If he was a spammer, then shame on me. I poked around his twitter feed and his website before I replied. The guy fashions himself some type of securities/bonds guru, and it looked to me like he was proposing a purchase transaction along those lines. From looking at his website, he's clearly insane, and my attempt at humor was based on the quote on his website/twitter profile about the egg first, or the virus in the universe.

Anyway, the seller, markivan, is lucky he didn't get more derision from this board, given that he's got a grand total of two posts since 2013, then posts 5 pictures, and wants $69K for the car.

Just now, I see he did the classic noob move and deleted everything, so nobody can tell what the F...K was going on with the post to begin with. Time to lock the post up or delete it altogether IMHO.

Nuff said.

Best,
John Graham

[Nebraska_e28]

Can some mod delete this swill please

.

Please report in this thread rather than replying within a spammers thread. Thanks!

[Mike W.]

Please report in this thread rather than replying within a spammers thread. Thanks!

I thought we were supposed to report it in the "Report a Spammer" thread in comments?