Removing spam or illegal activity accounts
 

Removing spam or illegal activity accounts


How many strikes do the spammers get before their account gets removed?

Zero tolerance on the ones I stubble accross. I always put permanent ban on em.

site compromised this morning...

and again today

Also just random from little old me. Is this a car forum or another political debate platform?

That depends on whether you stick to the car sub-forums or venture in to the "Off Topic" toilet ;)

Well the whole damn forum is flooded with political nonsense. They should leave that crap for the news and Facebook groups. Every time I click “new posts” 90% of that is political garbage.

Skip the "New Posts" button and just view the forum. It'll show what threads have new activity since you last viewed it and keeps you out of the dumpster fire that is the "OT" section.

Dumpster fire...well said. Ok I will do that. Thanks.

blt = banned. mission accomplished, thanks for bringing it to our attention :P

Agreed. They really should shut down the political forum. I know it’s driven people like me away from what was once a great resource for these cars and I’m also not giving Pelican another dime for any parts as long as they let it last.

Theres the 'ignore' function, , , ,

It's discouraging to see how the moderator team is allowing spammers to run around unchecked. 11 out of 40 threads on Diesel Discussion's 1st page are spam from one member. I reported the offending account 3 or 4 days ago and the posts are still up. You also have to wait every 60 seconds between each spam report. I'm not going to waste 11 minutes of my time reporting 11 separate threads for spam when the moderators should be on the job deleting spam accounts.

This feels like a dying shopping mall where it's still active, but it's not as heavily populated as before because people have moved on to online shopping, or in this case, various Facebook Groups for MBs. There's good stores, but you can see the signs of deferred maintenance and lack of care.

Support a sitting President from the wrong party, you get banned. Sell illegals counterfeit birth certificates and drivers licenses, more than welcome here.

Someone at Peachparts is not doing their job or is not competent. If this reflects on how Pelican Parts carries out business, why would we deal with them?

Maybe we can get through to someone at PP who can take action?

I posted this in the DD forum also

According to the bottom of the DD window there are 2 moderators listed.

JimSmith and vstech

JimSmith's last activity shows to be 10-29-2016 so I would say he's left the building.

John (vstech) I know him personally, since he lives up in Charlotte about an hour from me and helped me get my 123 and 124 running.

When his father passed a few years ago, he inherited his father's one-man HVAC business, and he probably doesn't have the time to watch over the forum like he used to.

John was last on the forum 2-22-2021 so he's been coming around but not since when this latest storm of spam came through.

I agree that we need new moderation so that we can keep this resource going. I would throw my hat in the ring, anyone else wish to step in?

John, if you happen to see this and you agree, could you put one of us in contact with the site ownership about transferring the mod duties?

More spam has inundated the Diesel Discussion Forum. We've got people here who are willing to moderate. Why not let them?

people have fallen victim to these scammers who join and post in EVERY single WTB post.....people have lost real money because there isn't a more effective method for validating new accounts or 'hard stop' rules for posting in classifieds

MODERATION
 

Almost TWO YEARS LATER and nothing done .

Sad .

I miss the glory days here very much .

PEACHPARTS is a dangerous website
 

Its obvious the website is gone to the dogs, er scammers!
I have a friend in the IT biz who deals with stolen accounts, hacked accounts, scammers and the like all the time.
He said the first problem he saw when he went to look at an ongoing post I sent him from a scammer that uses numerous monikers on Peachparts was the warning he got:

Your connection is not private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.peachparts.com (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). Learn more
NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID
Subject: peachparts.com
Issuer: Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2
Expires on: Sep 21, 2023

More coming after my next meeting to discuss this.

Current date: Nov 20, 2023