Here is what was happening. I had the settings on this site so anyone could add a blog post and no one would review it. It would be immediately viewable to everyone. That was just fine, we're all adults here and it was fun to discover what everyone had to say.
However, earlier this week spammers started hitting the site and did blog postings about drugs, aceteminophen, darvocet, etc., every day at least five or six blog postings -- then those blog postings would go out onto the AFI Facebook page, giving them double exposure, and also in the newslettters that were going out every morning with the synopsis of the previous day's activity on AFI -- triple exposure. People were cancelling their memberships, writing me lots of emails asking me to stop it, etc. After three days I put the hold on all the blog posts so I could catch them before they went out over the network and into everyone's email boxes, etc. They come in periodically throughout the day. I was out today and came home to find fifteen waiting in the list of blog postings!! What this means is that blog postings will not be immediately added to the site. Luckily, most of the time I am here. It is the best way I can think of to stop all this infection!
I have been to the site Help desk and basically this is what all the other site organizers on this network are doing.
Here are a few sample blog post - headlines -- the whole message was much more lengthy:
You have a new blog post "Buying Pills Smok-OX. Tablets Purchase Smok-OX" to approve on Art Fair Insiders
You have a new blog post "Generic Buying Acai. Buying Without Prescription Acai" to approve on Art Fair Insiders
You have a new blog post "Buy Floxin Free Delivery. Purchase Floxin Free Delivery" to approve on Art Fair Insider
You have a new blog post "Buying Methotrexate no Prescription. Cheapest Buying Methotrexate" to approve on Art Fair Insiders
You have a new blog post "Tablets Purchase Pravachol. Buy Without a Prescription Pravachol" to approve on Art Fair Insiders
Comments
However, you still have to "play nicely with others."
Keep up the good work!
Barb
I have just spent an hour this morning deleting spam accounts from this site once again. Their posts also seem to be interfering with the regular blog postings. I am having one heck of a time, and frankly, I do have other things to do!
This is a good reminder to folks to make sure not to put personal information in your profiles and postings that could cause you to get spammed via your home email accounts. Especially, don't list your home address.
Seriously though, I am sorry for all the inconvenience this is causing you. Perhaps you can take it as a compliment-- there is so much traffic on the website that the spammers have found it.
(we are off to Illinois for the summer this weekend. We always stop overnite in Atlanta. It is killing me to be there and miss the Dogwood festival. I don't think the other half would appreciate the schedule being thrown off for me to go to one more art festival when I have over 20 scheduled for this summer in Illinois and Wisconsin, but still........)