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West buffalo, CA

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October 31, 2010, 04:09 PM

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I have lost patience with the endless spam on this site and the moderators inability or unwillingness to stop it.

Specifically, a single spammer has been flooding the boards with hundreds of "How to watch online" posts.

This spammer has been operating unhindered for at least a month. Yes, eventually the moderators delete the spammer's accounts, but the spammer just creates multiple new accounts the next weekend and the spam continues unabated.

There are so many bogus spam threads that I cannot locate legitimate threads on these boards.

The moderators have deleted threads, posts and even user accounts of legitimate FanNation members who have tried to bring the spam epidemic to your attention. It seems to me that the moderators are more diligent about policing the comments on the spam threads than they are with the spam itself.

So here are my questions for the moderators:
1. Why was Buck-i-Girl's account deleted? She was trying to bring this spam epidemic to the moderator's attention. Further, why have the moderators not responded to her repeated emails on the subject of her removal?

2. Considering how predictable this spammer is, why does it take days to remove his account, and why are his spam threads allowed to remain even after the account is deleted? I have seen the moderators delete other threads so I know it is possible to delete threads on FanNation.

3. Are the moderators working on a mechanism to preemptively delete the spammer's threads as they are created?

4. Are the moderators working on a mechanism to prevent this spammer from creating new accounts?

Moderator Adam Lee
http://www.fannation.com/users/view_user_profile/6235< br />
Anonymous Moderator
h ttp://www.fannation.com/users/view_user_profile/7

Another possible Moderator account
http://www.fannation.com/users/view_user_profile/552440< /a>

Moderators, please come on this thread and post CONCRETE answers to my questions.

Thank you.

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October 31, 2010 04:10 PM ET

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Moderator Adam Lee
http://www.fannation.com/users/view_user_profile/6235

Anonymous Moderator
http://www.fannation.com/users/view_user_profile/7

Another possible Moderator account
http://www.fannation.com/users/view_user_profile/552440

UB bulls

West Buffalo, CA

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October 31, 2010 04:10 PM ET

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Originally posted 04:10 PM ET 10.31 by UB bulls

Here are the CFB Boards today

Here are the NFL boards today

Here are the NHL boards today

Here is a typical spam thread. Comments denouncing this as spam are deleted, but the spammer's posts are not deleted. Why? Note that I repeatedly Hit the Report Abuse button on Comment #1 and alerted the Mods that this thread was spam.

Here is the contents of my post that was deleted. What is offensive about this post?

My name is UB Bulls and I approve this message

UB bulls

West Buffalo, CA

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October 31, 2010 05:21 PM ET

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Good post. I've had my comments deleted and all I was doing was parodying the spammers words. No vulgarity or profanity....just having fun with it, much like National Lampoon or Mad Magazine would do with movies. What I do is when I get a notice in my e mail about a comment being removed, I copy and paste it and put it back on the board that it was removed from.

There's money being passed under the table, I can almost guarantee you that.

Bull_Shirt_Retired

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October 31, 2010 07:36 PM ET

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sorry bout your boys today bull!

Thanks, but I didn't expect anything other than what they did. Jerry's dug his own grave, as has his hand picked "coaches". I do believe they have given up.

Bull_Shirt_Retired

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October 31, 2010 08:17 PM ET

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UB Bulls....! Nice Work!! I'm voting for you on Tuesday and if I can't you are my write-in candidate, nice freaking work! That was a flying sukahama (what-everTF that is?) off the top turnbuckle to those clown moderators. Kung pow!

+45 yr Cowboy Fan

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October 31, 2010 08:19 PM ET

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Originally posted 07:36 PM ET 10.31 by Bull_Shirt_Retired

Thanks, but I didn't expect anything other than what they did. Jerry's dug his own grave, as has his hand picked "coaches". I do believe they have given up.

True that! Couldn't even find the game on an on-line provider that I normally go to, probably felt there would be little interest.

Dieon summed it up on NFL network a few moments ago, team has no leaders and a bunch of quitters. Said it before, there are about 8-9 playmakers there and I hope they hang on until the rest of the team gets fleshed out. Time to cut the dead wood

+45 yr Cowboy Fan

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November 4, 2010 05:18 PM ET

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Does anyone know how I can watch the New England patriots games online?

Joe Mammy

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November 5, 2010 01:38 PM ET

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Spammers are the scourge of the message boards, why couldn't these boards have a feature that doesn't allow a new account holder to start a new thread without first having 50-100 posts. This would allow those who moderate the forum the opportunity to get rid of those spammers who post in a thread already started and stop them from starting a new thread at the same time.