WHAT'S HAPPENED?

[SamLouise]

Oh no, no, noooo.  Please let's not snipe at each other because of these awful spammers :(

I'm sure Dan cares for this site very much (and I'm pretty sure he makes no money from it, lol) but I do know some members become a little deflated from lack of PM response.  I think the reason he picked a couple of extra mods was probably due to not being able to spend as much time on the board and that's fine but with such limited authority, it's very hard to do anything other than move posts from the board and into moderation - one at a time which I find extremely frustrating, not to mention time consuming.

But please, let's not fall out :) x

[SamLouise]

[BarriedaleNick]

Just to say thanks Sam!  Must be a tedious thing to have to do..
I have no desire to be a mod but would gladly help out if I could..

[tonybloke]

yep, thanks to Sam for the sterling effort it must take to sort out this spam, I see there's a new one just appeared, uh-oh

[shirlton]

Why oh why wont Dan give you the means to delete the posts  in one go. If he is not there to do it then at least you will be there.
I would just like to add that Dan doesn't make a penny out of me since I learned to use photobucket

[Admin aka Dan]

Hi

I have disabled registrations for the time being to stop new spamers registering.

Sadly it appears that the drop in email spam has been more than replaced with forum spam!

Dan

[aj]

I'm a Mod on another gardening Forum - and just between mid dec and this week we had 1000 new registrations that were spammers; as against 30 odd genuine newbies.

It's a thankless task, but without the ability to ban a member, it's just p1ssing in the wind unfortunately.

They did say that the methods were set to change, so approving new memberships has got to be the way to go eventually.

[Borlotti]

Three cheers for Dan and Sam.

[saddad]

Well done both... thanks very much...  :)

[pumkinlover]

Yes Thank you!!!
Does it make you feel grubby having cleaned up all that rubbish! ;)

[asj]

Well done guys  ;D

[Grandma]

Thank you both.

It's sod's law but I was telling a garden-mad friend all about A4A yesterday and he asked me to email the link to him. I did that last night. I couldn't believe my eyes at what I saw this morning and quickly sent him another email saying 'Please don't look - it's horrible!'

Thank goodness it's back to normal!

[caroline7758]

Thanks, Sam and Dan- and don't let the beggars get you down !!

[Digeroo]

I have missed what has been going on.  But a big big thanks to Dan and Sam.  Perhaps you needs some more mods.

Maybe some kind of question about who you are?  I joined a forum about ancestor and had to pass a test to be allowed in.  It was not difficult but much to tedious for someone just interested in spamming.

I really enjoy the site.

[tomatoada]

Back in the land of the sane.   Thanks.