Hi all, just wanted to let everyone know that we have had a massive raft of spam recently, including fake news and library articles.
These are real problem as they go out on feeds and syndicated to other sites, so if spam gets on here we will get penalised by Google.
As a result I have had to restrict article-posting rights. Now articles cannot be posted by any user, they can only be posted by a user who is confirmed as genuine.
All regular users should be confirmed as genuine already. If you have any issues posting articles please just post a comment below, or start a thread in the feedback forum, and we will make sure you are recorded as a genuine user.
If you are newly registered to libcom.org and wish to post articles please introduce yourself in the welcome thread here and we will mark you as genuine.
Any thoughts/comments/suggestions about this please feel free to post below.
Yeah, something has got to be done about this. I spent probably 30-40 minutes on Saturday banning users and deleting spam.
Having a thread where you have to post first before you get posting privilges elsewhere (ABC had this) might work.