Let's Talk BBQ
Welcome Center => House Rules => Topic started by: Albert Rivera on December 28, 2013, 11:27:13 AM
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Just got off another BBQ forum where I intended to post my latest request for out door kitchen photos and quickly closed the site for fear of a virus or spam.
There were numerous spam messages with offers for online drugs for sale. This situation has been ongoing for many days without any remedy by site administrators.
I am glad this site is going to great lengths to protect against malicious invasions of folk that do not have much better to do than abuse others.
Thanks Tim and other admins! Good Job!
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I remember when SOTG would get blasted by spam for days at a time....... :(
We are so fortunate to be here and have this forum.. :)
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Other BBQ forum? I thought this was the only one. ;D
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I think Tim's decision to ask new members to respond to an email before they're allowed to post was nothing less than brilliant. That goes a long way to keep spammers out.
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Spammers flood forums around the holidays because they know the moderators might be taking some time off. Especially on corporate sponsored sites.
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Just got off another BBQ forum where I intended to post my latest request for out door kitchen photos and quickly closed the site for fear of a virus or spam.
There were numerous spam messages with offers for online drugs for sale. This situation has been ongoing for many days without any remedy by site administrators.
I am glad this site is going to great lengths to protect against malicious invasions of folk that do not have much better to do than abuse others.
Thanks Tim and other admins! Good Job!
Online drugs (http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff258/truckthis/emoticons/ththjoint.gif) (http://s242.photobucket.com/user/truckthis/media/emoticons/ththjoint.gif.html) what the heck kinda forum is that ???
Other BBQ forum? I thought this was the only one. ;D
Yes Pappy I live here to
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Albert, I was over there today and saw the same thing. You shouldn't worry about getting a virus unless you actually click on the links.
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That was spam? Now you tell me. I just spent half the night looking up all the drug names to see if I wanted any of them. I guess I'm lucky I logged on here before I went back to place my order.
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I think Tim's decision to ask new members to respond to an email before they're allowed to post was nothing less than brilliant. That goes a long way to keep spammers out.
Agreed (except for the part about calling Tim brilliant... don't want it to go to his head).
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I left a BBQ forum lickity split due to the same problem. They weren't so family friendly :)
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I think Tim's decision to ask new members to respond to an email before they're allowed to post was nothing less than brilliant. That goes a long way to keep spammers out.
Agreed (except for the part about calling Tim brilliant... don't want it to go to his head).
Dang Billy you beat me in commenting about Tim's brilliance! :D
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I think Tim's decision to ask new members to respond to an email before they're allowed to post was nothing less than brilliant. That goes a long way to keep spammers out.
Agreed (except for the part about calling Tim brilliant... don't want it to go to his head).
Dang Billy you beat me in commenting about Tim's brilliance! :D
Now hold on a minute... I said "his decision" was brilliant... :P
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SOTG is at 24 pages long on "New Threads" Spam everywhere!!!
I hate to see it happen to them but sooooooo thankful Tim set this site up the way he did
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That was spam? Now you tell me. I just spent half the night looking up all the drug names to see if I wanted any of them. I guess I'm lucky I logged on here before I went back to place my order.
Turtle, we all know that over there in Hawaii y'all think Spam is a delicacy. I just watched a show on the Travel Network where they were serving up gourmet dishes made of Spam in Hawaii. Here down South it is just sliced about half inch thick and fried in a cast iron pan and served on two pieces of white bread with mayo and cheddar cheese and a slice of Vidalia onion.
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Turtle, we all know that over there in Hawaii y'all think Spam is a delicacy. I just watched a show on the Travel Network where they were serving up gourmet dishes made of Spam in Hawaii. Here down South it is just sliced about half inch thick and fried in a cast iron pan and served on two pieces of white bread with mayo and cheddar cheese and a slice of Vidalia onion.
Excellent (but not the only) worthy recipe.
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Thanks for the accolades guys - but the truth is, I and your other Admins were tired of the spam, and "attitude" issues on other forums. We just believed that a true user driven site would work much better. It does require a fully manual approval process, and the applicant's information must pass thru 3 international databases and come out as "clean" - meaning no spam generation, or history of their I.P. addresses/e-mail etc have been used for generating "junk" or associated in any way with data mining or hacking.
This is an extra pain for new members and - that means we will not grow as fast as some sites.
But we want to focus on building this place, not on number of members but on quality of posts. Input of data that is useful, great recipes and advice.
And - a lot of humor along the way to entertain, and keep us from taking things too seriously ;) ;D
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Thanks for the accolades guys - but the truth is, I and your other Admins were tired of the spam, and "attitude" issues on other forums. We just believed that a true user driven site would work much better. It does require a fully manual approval process, and the applicant's information must pass thru 3 international databases and come out as "clean" - meaning no spam generation, or history of their I.P. addresses/e-mail etc have been used for generating "junk" or associated in any way with data mining or hacking.
This is an extra pain for new members and - that means we will not grow as fast as some sites.
But we want to focus on building this place, not on number of members but on quality of posts. Input of data that is useful, great recipes and advice.
And - a lot of humor along the way to entertain, and keep us from taking things too seriously ;) ;D
OK, that whole first paragraph is over my head. Whatever it is it works. I still like that even though this site has corporate sponsors it is still focused on the users and not any specific products. You have a great line of products but you don't "push" them here. We have a lot of other great sponsors who let the forum users talk about their products instead of talking that much about them themselves. I like that unlike some other forums if a member has a bad experience with a product they tend to work it out with the vendor instead of coming on here and trashing them. What we get mostly is good reports of how a vendor dealt with a snag and made their customer happy. I don't post that much anymore other than to compliment someone on their great looking food, but coming in here everyday is my break from the things that go on in real life. I can be having a really bad day and come here and it all goes away for a while. I still cook a little but don't have time to take the pictures and share them. I will try and remedy that in the New Year.
Just my 2 cents which is worth less than a penny these days.