Yep, I hear you girls.... I must admit it's putting me off from visiting here as often as I'd like. Sugz baby, I agree with Miss Kazz, you go ahead and rant and rave your pretty head off all you like sweetiepie. It's getting harder and harder to tell the sh*t from the shovel around here, and also it DOES make it harder to respond to newbies because it's so difficult to tell the genuine newbies from the spammers. (Remember 'sagepowder', among others
) However, here are a couple of things that might help. I've noticed that for some reason, ALL of these messages will post with a smiley emoticon - probably some automatic option they all set out to use. They think, 'Aha! We'll appear all warm and fuzzy by posting a cute smiley, and the world won't be able to resist clicking on us!'
Secondly, the registered name is something to notice too, as Sugar said. If it's not something obviously gross then it'll be one of those inane, generic looking nics like, 'superdooper7654321' or some such thing. So far there's only been one (that I've come across anyway...'HelenBeden' or whatever the stupid name was) that hasn't been one of those. And I agree absolutely ~ the Mod should choose to approve registrations manually, instead of letting the registration process do it automatically. Pretty please Ms/Mr. Mod, with sugar on top?!? (And that's REAL sugar btw, not our very own blonde bombshell in residence, the gorgeous Miss SugarDLuxe!)
Thirdly,
and most important of all, DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING IN THESE POSTS. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work that one out, but beware of these links. They mightn't all just take you to some crappy porn site or more 'innocent' third party sites that a lot of these pay-for-click spammers make their bucks from. I belong to several other forums, and one of them contained a piece of spam that infected your computer with a very nasty bug once you clicked on it. It decimated someone's hard drive (not mine, thank God, lol). So even if for whatever reason, you're remotely tempted, do not click on ANYTHING in these posts, just to be on the safe side. Oh, and I can't let this topic go without saying one final thing. I notice there's currently one of those 'how to get a larger penis!' threads. C'mon spammers!! Do your homework first! Doncha know (accoding to legend, anyway) that a Chris Isaak website is the LAST place where that would need to be posted.
Hey guys what is with all the 'XXX'gear and "can your girlfriend do this?" And videos and stuff?
I think we're all starting
I may end up missing some good stuff here because if a post has anything even resembling a generic title, I skip it, and it may be a real Isaak-topic post from a friendly newcomer but oh well, I won't step in it and then smell it just to make sure. Reg approval went from a 3 month wait to automatic, it seems. Guess they couldn't figure out any in-between solution? I doubt the mod checks in here every day even, no matter if only in one time zone. From the way spam piles up, funcionality of the board gets handled, and responses to direct addressses get replied to I'd guess once a week or so. Thank God for all the other Isaak boards. At least it's a time honored tradition on those to skip whatever you don't like or bitch about it accordingly and don't expect anyone to moderate anything.