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?

Yes and yes

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!!!!

Those spam posts are usually reported within an hour or two of posting. The forum mods just aren't spending much time tending to the forum. At least two of the folks who used to moderate the forum pretty diligently no longer work for Cakewalk. I don't think it's anybody's priority these days, just something they do on the side, when time permits.

For years I've been suggesting a practical solution that works well at other forums, and that's volunteer moderators. Give a few of us regulars the ability to quarantine threads, meaning to move them into a spam section until an official moderator can review them and delete them. The UK guys could zap the kitchen spammers before the rest of us get up in the morning. We west-coasters would take care of the Chinese spam.

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.

Thanks john & Bitflipper.  I see the report abuse link now. I did look thru the FAQs etc and didn't see anything.

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.

ampfixer


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.

I actually reported the criminal spam post about the fake documents to the FBI.  I would hate to think folks like that could actually get away with being that brazen and sell that kind of stuff to people with bad intent.  I did some additional searching on the web for other posts that set of people had posted, and bundled up what I found and emailed it to the FBI.


Bob Bone

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.

but those guys helped me solve my latency issues.