The spammers are taking over

iwannascoot · Post by **iwannascoot** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:31 am

What is up with all the spam lately? GPS jammer, cell phone jammer, weight loss BS? What is next?

Billy

DeeDee · Post by **DeeDee** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 12:53 pm

It's the broken window syndrome. That's how Rudy Giuliani cleaned up New York. Clean the graffiti and fix the window the moment you notice it. Shows that someone cares. Let This continue and pretty soon the spammers will be onto grand theft auto and arson. Pretty soon the posts for cheap running shoes and skin products will outnumber the scooter posts. I saw it on the SYM forum. It wasn't pretty.

Dooglas · Post by **Dooglas** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 3:19 pm

It is instructive to note that the same thing is not happening on MV. The difference that I can see is that moderators are more active there. I also note that most sites use some method of email address validation these days.

Post by **jrsjr** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:03 pm

I got 'em. Just PM me here on this site when you see spam. That sends me an e-mail. Usually I get those really quickly, but I've been travelling the past couple days so I got behind, but I'm back on it...

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:33 pm

DeeDee wrote:It's the broken window syndrome. That's how Rudy Giuliani cleaned up New York. Clean the graffiti and fix the window the moment you notice it. Shows that someone cares. Let This continue and pretty soon the spammers will be onto grand theft auto and arson. Pretty soon the posts for cheap running shoes and skin products will outnumber the scooter posts. I saw it on the SYM forum. It wasn't pretty.

Surprisingly, I don't see much on symforum any more. Maybe they figured out how few people are on the forum.

youkiddin · Post by **youkiddin** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:25 pm

spam has destroyed the performance scooter site, damn shame

charlie55 · Post by **charlie55** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:12 am

What's happened to Eric, Polianarchy, and the rest of the mods? Haven't seen a post from any of them in ages.

Dooglas · Post by **Dooglas** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:11 am

charlie55 wrote:What's happened to Eric, Polianarchy, and the rest of the mods? Haven't seen a post from any of them in ages.

I have talked with Eric about this. For reasons I do not understand, there is some hesitancy to add more moderators to the site.