SOLVED!! Anyone know how to contact the forum admin to rid of the SPAM?!

Anyone know how to contact the forum admin to rid of the SPAM?!
 
We are getting spammed!! is it possible  to flag these posts to get rid of them?

ok, well... good for you i guess... would be great to know how... so if someone asked "does anyone know how to mute a track" (for example), i assume your answer would be "yes" ?!  LOL!!!!

Look at the bottom of every post to the right. It says report abuse. Click on that and a window comes up to give a report.

If its been up awhile some one has most likely reported it already.

Normal spam is one thing, criminal spam is different.

The kitchen guys are a pain in the butt, however, the recent spam for illegal documents is something that the mods should be addressing very fast. I think they're trying, but as Bit says, it's not really a priority right now.

The internet is the wild west when it comes to content.

Too bad the FBI has no jurisdiction in Nigeria. That's where those fake-passport spammers are located. And they have no intention of selling you a fake passport, only to take money from gullible rubes.

Yeah, I got decent info when I asked: Need a high end audio interface - I have 7,800 Naira, but I can go to 8k in a pinch"

This forum software, as has so often been noted, sucks. There is apparently some technical reason why CW cannot update it, although explanations have been vague. Whatever the reason, it's probably best to assume that software solutions are not an option. 

That leaves only the human solution: volunteer moderators. I know that the software supports a permissions system whereby designated users may move and close threads. That's all that's needed. Create a quarantine folder and give a few users the ability to move threads there. Forum administrators would still decide which threads to delete and which users to ban, so there's little chance a volunteer mod could accidentally or maliciously censor legitimate threads. 

Volunteers' email addresses could optionally be added to the notification list when a post is flagged by another user. This, too, is a feature already supported by the forum software.

This is not a radical concept. It's been done that way for many years on KVR, and that's a very well-moderated forum despite the fact that it routinely attracts a lot of, er, "the wrong crowd". The "I got da Waves Mercury bundle so I can make my beatz but I can't get it to install" posters get run off pretty quick. And I've never seen a "buy genuine Nike shoes direct from China" post.

I know a lot of people have reported the recent forum posts advertising illegal activities and even reported them to the FBI.  Has anyone attempted to contact Cakewalk by phone to report the activities.  It's pretty obvious that no one is monitoring the forum or the abuse reports?

The forum has become an embarrassment!!  Over the years  I have pointed many potential Sonar customers to this forum as another reason to buy the software.  That is certainly NOT the case now.  This is very SAD.  It's one thing not having some idiot banned because of anti-social behavior.  It's another when posts soliciting ILLEGAL activities are not removed - and appear to be multiplying.  SAD!

Don  

I'm a moderator on trains.com and we have a way involving an approval process before the post appears...it seems to work...but I wonder if ASP works that way...

bitflipper


This forum software, as has so often been noted, sucks. There is apparently some technical reason why CW cannot update it, although explanations have been vague. Whatever the reason, it's probably best to assume that software solutions are not an option. 

That leaves only the human solution: volunteer moderators. I know that the software supports a permissions system whereby designated users may move and close threads. That's all that's needed. Create a quarantine folder and give a few users the ability to move threads there. Forum administrators would still decide which threads to delete and which users to ban, so there's little chance a volunteer mod could accidentally or maliciously censor legitimate threads. 

Volunteers' email addresses could optionally be added to the notification list when a post is flagged by another user. This, too, is a feature already supported by the forum software.

This is not a radical concept. It's been done that way for many years on KVR, and that's a very well-moderated forum despite the fact that it routinely attracts a lot of, er, "the wrong crowd". The "I got da Waves Mercury bundle so I can make my beatz but I can't get it to install" posters get run off pretty quick. And I've never seen a "buy genuine Nike shoes direct from China" post.

I don't know. I really don't forum that much except here. But I have seen on other forums which have user moderators which almost seemed like an exclusive club whom deemed what's appropriate and what's not. I like the open forums Cake has now. Yeah it does lead to some trollers and negative threads. But that's better than being censored because somebody doesn't like what I have to say. Never had that fear on this forum.


I realize you guys are initially talking about spam. But really, how hard is it to ignore it till cake gets rid of it. They usually do. At least in the past. If deleting spam is all moderators could do that would be fine. 


As for negative threads and trollers, cake usually gets them after a thousand people get suckered into the treads.