Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Yesterday's Spammer
We had a particularly annoying spammer yesterday who just wouldn't go away. My apologies to those of you who got one of her annoying messages.
A member has asked me what they can do about messages like the one she got yesterday. I thought it might be helpful if I publish my reply more widely. So, le voici:
Our apologies. We very occasionally get spammers join the site. Without putting up barriers which would put off everyone from joining, we do our best to stay vigilant and get them zapped asap.
Yesterday's “Cynthia” was particularly aggressive and we had to keep on blocking her. We even raised the security bar higher for the weekend. Every time she came back we had her zapped within, at worst, 30 mins. Any comments she left on members’ pages were also zapped. So we're doing our best. As to what you can do about it, there are two choices, neither of which offers a perfect solution I'm afraid:
1. Your privacy options (http://www.harringayonline.com/profiles/profile/privacySettings) allow you to require approval before any comments made by other members appear on your page. This won't stop you getting the email alerts when someone leaves a comment for you though.
2. You have quite a lot of choices as to which email notifications you get. This can be controlled, via your settings page (http://www.harringayonline.com/page/controlling-emails-from). However, the problem with using this method to deal with spammers' comments is that you filter out the good stuff as well as the bad. This means that you may miss out on real messages from people you'd like to hear from or messages from us. :o(.
Our aim is to keep the inevitable spam to a minimum (and we think were doing a pretty good job) and hope that members will bear with us when a spammer does get through.
99.9% of the time it's pretty easy to recognise a spammer. They're usually pretty crude. We hope that members will treat occasional spam messages in much the same way as they’d treat an occasionally noisy patron in a cafe they're visiting. Just ignore them, unless of course they get too much! (Remember, none of the spammers can get your email address.)
And you can rest assured that behind the scenes we're busily working away to keep you free from hassle.
Hope that helps.
A member has asked me what they can do about messages like the one she got yesterday. I thought it might be helpful if I publish my reply more widely. So, le voici:
Our apologies. We very occasionally get spammers join the site. Without putting up barriers which would put off everyone from joining, we do our best to stay vigilant and get them zapped asap.
Yesterday's “Cynthia” was particularly aggressive and we had to keep on blocking her. We even raised the security bar higher for the weekend. Every time she came back we had her zapped within, at worst, 30 mins. Any comments she left on members’ pages were also zapped. So we're doing our best. As to what you can do about it, there are two choices, neither of which offers a perfect solution I'm afraid:
1. Your privacy options (http://www.harringayonline.com/profiles/profile/privacySettings) allow you to require approval before any comments made by other members appear on your page. This won't stop you getting the email alerts when someone leaves a comment for you though.
2. You have quite a lot of choices as to which email notifications you get. This can be controlled, via your settings page (http://www.harringayonline.com/page/controlling-emails-from). However, the problem with using this method to deal with spammers' comments is that you filter out the good stuff as well as the bad. This means that you may miss out on real messages from people you'd like to hear from or messages from us. :o(.
Our aim is to keep the inevitable spam to a minimum (and we think were doing a pretty good job) and hope that members will bear with us when a spammer does get through.
99.9% of the time it's pretty easy to recognise a spammer. They're usually pretty crude. We hope that members will treat occasional spam messages in much the same way as they’d treat an occasionally noisy patron in a cafe they're visiting. Just ignore them, unless of course they get too much! (Remember, none of the spammers can get your email address.)
And you can rest assured that behind the scenes we're busily working away to keep you free from hassle.
Hope that helps.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Thanks, it must be annoying for you also
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Permalink Reply by Lesley Ramm on
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so the email alert you sent me yesterday "Cynthia added a comment to your profile on Harringay online:
baby.cynthia29@yahoo.com Hello. My name is Cynthia I was impress when i saw your profile at www.harringayonline.com and i will like you to email me back to my inbox so that i can send you my picture..."
has that been deleted? i had no intention of responding but did think it was an odd message from someone on HoL.
thanks for doing what you can to defeat these nuisances
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