A spam blocker on my account - REALLY

prowla

The ironic thing on the most recent time it happened to me was that the two preceding posts I made were reporting SPAM/Trolling!

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prowla said:

The ironic thing on the most recent time it happened to me was that the two preceding posts I made were reporting SPAM/Trolling!

Indeed. I've just had to spend the last 10 minutes in the sin-bin for similar.


What kind of forum places a restriction on their users reporting spam, illegal, offensive or libellous posts/messages, especially when they have a policy of no active moderation themselves?
Seems to be inviting troublemakers imho.

203846930

Does that mean that even just clicking the spam button counts as a post against your time limit?

DoaM

duncanthedog said:

Does that mean that even just clicking the spam button counts as a post against your time limit?

I wondered the same thing when I read that. If it is the case then whomsoever enabled that feature should be made to stand in the corner, wearing a dunce's cap and reciting "I must not be such a dimwit". 🙄

203846930

Still happening and still nothing from MSE.
If a company treated its customers like this who do you think would be first to shout at them?

203846930

If Twitter brought in such a rule, how long before Martin Lewis and others started kicking up a right stink?

thingamaBob

They do seem to have changed the conditions of this slightly. Now you mustn't post more than twice in two minutes and if you do you get banned from posting for 5 minutes. Somewhat better but still not good.
Why not just put restrictions on new posters instead of penalising long term members.

One-Eye

One-Eye said:

PLEASE STOP TORTURING REGULAR POSTERS

I was not exaggerating:-

lizd31 said:

I've just got the same thing now & I'm blocked because I posted 3 of the Your Cat July comps in 4 minutes. The same thing happened last month. I struggle sitting for long at my computer which is why I don't post much or do the daily thread anymore so it's really hard for me. I wanted to post all of them quickly & then go & rest but I can't, I have to come back in 10 minutes & post 2 more then wait a few more minutes & do some more. It's ridiculous.

4 weeks now and no progress or acknowledgement.

thingamaBob

One-Eye said:

One-Eye said:

PLEASE STOP TORTURING REGULAR POSTERS

I was not exaggerating:-

lizd31 said:

I've just got the same thing now & I'm blocked because I posted 3 of the Your Cat July comps in 4 minutes. The same thing happened last month. I struggle sitting for long at my computer which is why I don't post much or do the daily thread anymore so it's really hard for me. I wanted to post all of them quickly & then go & rest but I can't, I have to come back in 10 minutes & post 2 more then wait a few more minutes & do some more. It's ridiculous.

4 weeks now and no progress or acknowledgement.

Misslayed posted on the thread in Compers Chat:-

Misslayed said:

If it happens to you, please email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com  it helps them to be able to differentiate between valuable contributors and the spammers who have been attempting to flood the boards in the wee small hours recently.

redfox5 later posted:-

redfox5 said:

This was happening to me but I posted a few times today and didn't get blocked so figured it was fixed. 
I did email though. 

So, perhaps if you email. they can exempt you from this measure.

forgotmyname

Time limit can be bypassed.  Mad that a spammer can post and post many times whilst you keep reporting.

New account gets marked as spam posts should be hidden instantly and not allowed to post anymore. Then it gets
reviewed and if a member keeps marking non spam items as spam then prevent them by using the button?

Spammers know the office hours why is there nobody online when the spammers hit?  I used to report them a lot
but it became a fruitless exercise.  Seem to remember clicking spam for one user over 40 times and they were
still posting more.