Our New Site Administrator - addy1

[MADDOG]

We’re pleased to welcome our new site Administrator to the Garden Pond Forum team! @addy1 has stepped up and taken on a new role here, volunteering her time and energy to help foster a positive, informed, and respectful community.

As we work to reduce the amount of spam on the site and start planning some site improvements, her support will be instrumental in keeping things running smoothly, ensuring that member voices are heard and achieving site improvement goals going forward. We’re grateful for @addy1 's commitment and excited about what’s ahead.

Please join us in welcoming her aboard!

 

[Lisak1]

We’re in good hands here folks!

 

[saber63]

Heyo!
Congratulations!
Is it a promotion? Or just twice the work with the same pa..., eerrrr... right....

Thanks for all the hard work!

 

[addy1]

Heyo!
Congratulations!
Is it a promotion? Or just twice the work with the same pa..., eerrrr... right....

Thanks for all the hard work!

Yep!

Thanks all!

 

[j.w]

Wow two admins now for the price of one!
Gonna massacre all those bots for sure!
I saw none this morning so far but I'm in the PNW so we have later mornings here than most of you all

 

[Shaggy]

Congrats Addy!!

 

[addy1]

Now need to learn what is behind that admin name......

 

[MADDOG]

There's a lot hiding behind that badge let me tell ya...

 

[addy1]

There's a lot hiding behind that badge let me tell ya...

Oh I am sure....will do my best to not cry uncle!

I do enjoy learning, keeps the gray matter from becoming dark matter.

 

[Tula]

Hoorah ! This is wonderful news

 

[GBBUDD]

But whats Addy1 goingbto say being over looked for the position.?
And what the heck do these spammers get pit of destroying the forum. Mustbe a vindeta

 

[addy1]

But whats Addy1 goingbto say being over looked for the position.?
And what the heck do these spammers get pit of destroying the forum. Mustbe a vindeta

Overlooked?. They made me an admin.

And there is good software being used against the spammers. It takes time. I am learning how to load them into the software to stop them.

 

[GBBUDD]

Yes i know Dear you already had the position now you have the title but bad news is i dont believe the pay has increased either. I was being me a smart ars

 

[addy1]

Yes i know Dear you already had the position now you have the title but bad news is i dont believe the pay has increased either. I was being me a smart ars

Lmao yep you being you.......

 

[MADDOG]

Anything we can do to help eliminate spam messages that are already here? Like report a user or something? I've never done admin for a forum but I've done some command line stuff in the past. There has got to be a way to mass-delete everything a spambot account has posted, and stop new spam users from ever getting registered.

I appreciate your offer to help with the problem. There's no need to report them as they are easily identified. Once I have banned their IP address, their user name and check for shared IP addresses, the posts and threads are deleted.

At this point we are using the tools we have available to us. They work but it is a time consuming and tedious process.

On the bright side, when we started using the tool we have the number of spammers caught and blocked before they registered has been increasing. Unfortunately, the ratio of blocked spammers to registered spammers is still very lopsided. There are a lot more of them than there are of us.

The owners are investigating a software add-on that will block them from registering and capture them in an approval queue. That way all we need to do is ban their IP addresses, their user names and we are done. No need to chase down threads or posts made by the bots.

It's a work in process and I appreciate everyone's patience and we work on this issue.

Oh, and don't feel as if they have singled out this site. They are spamming a lot of sites out in the interwebs and a lot of staff teams are dealing with the same issue.