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Spammers Suck

by Demand Studios Editorial

Posted On 1/10/11:

This is why we can't have nice things.

Looks like spammers went hog wild on the forum and it had to be taken down. Actually, I had already taken it off the left navigation and menu and tried to make it no longer a part of the site because I was finding that I didn't have the time to police it and really run it properly with everything else I have going on. At that point there were just one or two innocuous pieces of spam.

I forgot that there were still links all over the site pointing to the forum, and that it needed to be officially removed from the host and taken down altogether. By the time I got around to doing so it had been spammed left and right, and this time with anything but innocuous material.

I was made aware of the content the spammers were posting on the forums by a comment to the site and have immediately disabled and deleted the forum.

I am disgusted that our nice little forum was used for the purposes it was and sincerely apologize to anyone who was exposed to what they posted. I also apologize for not having looked at the forums in the past couple of months or I would have been able to take care of this problem sooner.

Speaking of comments, I have also taken those off the site because the service I was using, Echo, as it turns out only lets you delete and moderate comments for free for a limited period. After that you have to pay a monthly fee. Spammers started taking advantage of my inability to moderate them on there as well, so now there are no more comments.

You can still reach out on the Facebook and Twitter pages.

Sorry for this nonsense. I am now going to go through and delete all the references and links to the forum that I can find on the site.

This isn't much of a way for us to start off the New Year, but at least things are now under control. Look for more posts soon, and this time on happier subject matters.

Hope everyone is off to a great start in the New Year!

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