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thirdcrank wrote: ↑15 Sep 2021, 2:04pm The dodgy links I mentioned have already gone so thanks for that. However, the third page of new members begins with a masseuse. Scrolling further back there are more and this page has a veritable peloton:-

memberlist.php?sk=c&sd=d&start=850

I don't know if this does any real damage because none seems to have posted; perhaps it's just my not liking to thinks these creatures have goy away with it.

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, those have to be removed manually. Someone cleverer than I am might be able to do it with an SQL query & the database. I will do a little more investigation, but I don't have much confidence that I will find a way to deal with it easily.

I don't want to create work

thirdcrank wrote: ↑15 Sep 2021, 3:58pm I don't want to create work

It's not you creating work. It's a combination of spammers using a work-around and software that allows it.

All it needs is the regular posters to alert the moderators that there's an issue.
Spam is easy to spot, but a new poster who comes on with a valid first post, isn't so easy to spot further down the line.

Alert us please.

I've just checked some 35 pages of members, starting from the most recent joiners and of those with an attached signature, and of those with posts, there are a couple clearly bona fide people and only two who have managed one post each, both having the same Hispanic spam link www.

I presume these are all would-be spammers who, with two apparent exceptions were cut down by the vorpal blade etc at the first post.

This suggests that my concerns about dodgy websites may be misplaced.

I also see that a lot of the dodgy websites on the first few pages seem to have gone.