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Location: Trois-Rivières, Québec
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Name: JP
Join Date: Nov 2014
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![]() Thanks Harvey. Appreciated.
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Location: San Diego, CA
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Name: Ed
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![]() You're confusing moderators with the administrator. The moderators are doing what they can to delete the spam after it occurs but the only one that can actually prevent the spam from occurring at all is the administrator and it seems he can't be bothered.
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#83 (permalink) |
Location: Trois-Rivières, Québec
Zone: 4
Name: JP
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![]() Admin's got a private life too outside this forum. We all do. It's not like he's making a fortune with this site. He's providing a nice place for us all to share and learn with each other for free. You should cut him some slack. We don't know what's happening with him and we shouldn't judge. But hey, that's my opinion...
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Location: Now nesting in Titusville, FL
Zone: 10A or 9B ish. Like it matters?
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I pay nothing to be here; I have a feeling you don't either. Do you grow bananas or just like to complain?
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#85 (permalink) |
Location: San Diego
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![]() More than two month later and we still have no solution for all the spam. How frustrating. Never seen that happen for that long to any other forum I regularly visit.
Thank you to all the moderators for your hard work deleting the spam over and over again. It is highly appreciated. Hope it will not take another two month to get a permanent fix. |
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#86 (permalink) |
Been nuts, gone bananas
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Name: Harvey
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![]() I don't know if some action has been taken or not, but the frequency of the spam posts has definitely decreased.
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The Cat Whisperer
Location: Charlotte, NC
Zone: 8b
Name: D.A. Hänks
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While you are correct in your statement that only admins can prevent this, I will again reiterate, that the owner is rarely on here. This is his site, and sees fit to not have additional admins for what are probably personal reasons. I have seen many sites hijacked and mutinied by admins who want someone else's site for their own. I have seen instances where the owner has been locked out of his own site! With only one admin, this cannot happen, and I'm sure why things are set up the way that they are. It is inconvenient yes, but after all, this is HIS site and not ours.
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#88 (permalink) |
Location: Indian Rocks Beach, FL
Zone: 10
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![]() Humbling requesting an admin perform a bulk delete as they did in March. there are maybe 9 pages of spam posts in chinese characters.
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#89 (permalink) |
Been nuts, gone bananas
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Zone: 9b
Name: Harvey
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 5,115
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![]() I think I got them all, yours was the first notice of the spam. It's best if you use the feature to report one of the spammers offending posts so we know where to look. I forget, I either deleted spam from 2 or 3 users in 2 or 3 subforums. When viewing the main page some of those still show up in the preview for that subforum even though they have been deleted but that will go away as soon as someone posts in that subforum.
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#90 (permalink) |
Been nuts, gone bananas
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Zone: 9b
Name: Harvey
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 5,115
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Feedback: 5 / 100%
Said "Thanks" 6,019 Times
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Thanked 4,440 Times in 1,890 Posts
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![]() Thanks to "Alastria" who has recently been promptly reporting spammers to us so that they can be dealt with.
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#91 (permalink) |
Location: Florida
Zone: 9a
Name: Anne
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#92 (permalink) |
Location: Eastern Washington State
Zone: 7b
Name: Barb
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![]() Still seeing Korean characters as "last post" for cold hardy bananas thread. Thanks mods and admin for all your efforts!
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#93 (permalink) |
Been nuts, gone bananas
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Zone: 9b
Name: Harvey
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 5,115
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Feedback: 5 / 100%
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![]() I mentioned recently that it seems to stay that way until someone posts in that subforum. Nothing I can do about that (other than post).
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#94 (permalink) |
Location: Tampa Area - Lutz/Land O'Lakes
Zone: 9b
Name: Paul
Join Date: Jan 2016
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![]() Wow! EVen More tonight! What is the Point of SOOOO many BS Posts?
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Have: Mysore, Pisang Klotek, Rajapuri, a Pineapple flavored type (Pisang Raja?), Manzano, Veinte Cohol, Gros Michel, Gran Nain, Double Mahoi, Enano Gigante, Dwarf Cavendish, SDC, TT, SH3640, FHIA-18, a NOT FHIA-18 (?), FHIA 01, Pitogo, Blue Java, Dwarf Red, Dwarf Namwah, Tall Namwah, Orinoco (from 3 locations), Dwarf Orinoco, Cali Gold, Hua Moa, (Red?) Iholena, Dwarf Iholene, Dwarf Puerto Rican, Velutina and growing |
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#95 (permalink) |
Location: Tampa Area - Lutz/Land O'Lakes
Zone: 9b
Name: Paul
Join Date: Jan 2016
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![]() Sorry Harvey... I should have read your post last night. I could have posted something to stop a few more pages of posts :-(
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Have: Mysore, Pisang Klotek, Rajapuri, a Pineapple flavored type (Pisang Raja?), Manzano, Veinte Cohol, Gros Michel, Gran Nain, Double Mahoi, Enano Gigante, Dwarf Cavendish, SDC, TT, SH3640, FHIA-18, a NOT FHIA-18 (?), FHIA 01, Pitogo, Blue Java, Dwarf Red, Dwarf Namwah, Tall Namwah, Orinoco (from 3 locations), Dwarf Orinoco, Cali Gold, Hua Moa, (Red?) Iholena, Dwarf Iholene, Dwarf Puerto Rican, Velutina and growing |
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#96 (permalink) |
Been nuts, gone bananas
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Zone: 9b
Name: Harvey
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 5,115
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![]() Okay, cleaned up 3 more accounts. Had a long day and will go to bed early tonight and I won't be a bit surprised if there's more garbage by morning.
I'm guessing that these spam posts are a method used to try to improve search engine ranking of the site they link, but just a guess. |
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The Cat Whisperer
Location: Charlotte, NC
Zone: 8b
Name: D.A. Hänks
Join Date: Dec 2014
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I will admit though, that is the reason the links to my IMDb listing and CRDRP are in my sig. Every little bit helps. ![]() Thanks again, for all of your hard work!
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#98 (permalink) |
Been nuts, gone bananas
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Zone: 9b
Name: Harvey
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 5,115
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Feedback: 5 / 100%
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![]() Thanks for your continued help in notifying me of spammers. Again, the most effective way is to click on the little red & white triangle "report post" button on the left side below the offending poster's ID. This gives me a link to the post as well as notify other moderators if I'm not available.
I wrote to site owner Jarred about this continuing problem. He thanked me for my help and I'll continue doing so as time allows (takes just a couple of minutes now to ban and delete hundreds of spam posts). He indicated he did add a captcha requirement with the registration but that this is easily defeated. He said he'd like to do a more modern update to the site that would help take care of the problem but there are many features in our site (gallery, wiki, auction, bananabucks, etc. that would be lost without spending a few weeks of time to make the change and he just does not have that time now. So I ask you to persevere and hope that these folks will eventually give up. We can nope, at least. |
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#99 (permalink) |
Location: Trois-Rivières, Québec
Zone: 4
Name: JP
Join Date: Nov 2014
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Feedback: 3 / 100%
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![]() Thanks! I am still happy to use this site and it will take a whole lot more to stop me from coming. Thanks to Jarred too for letting us in for free.
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Location: Palm Bay, Florida
Zone: 9b
Name: Steve
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![]() I hit the triangle whenever I see em. I try to tell you if there are many, but I suppose you can see that.
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![]() If you lose your head and give up, you neither live nor win. https://sputinc7.wixsite.com/covwc Varieties I supposedly bought: Manzano, Cavendish, Blue Java, Sweetheart, and Gros Michel. What it seems I actually have: Brazilian, Cavendish, Namwah, Dwarf Red, Gros Michel, Pisang Ceylon, Veinte Cohol and SH 3640, and American Goldfinger. FHIA 1, Paggi and FHIA 17... Always room for one more. |
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