Bad Actors

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St Vrain Angler
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Bad Actors

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Post by St Vrain Angler »

Any way to block bad actors (e.g. "dincot") from posting irrelevant/scamming/damaging messages and links on the Forum?
Regardless, many thanks for all you moderators do.

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kevinhaney1
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Re: Bad Actors

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Post by kevinhaney1 »

One way that would help, I think, would be to require a persons first post to be moderated before it is posted. There have been a lot of probably scammers probing with single word posts lately.

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Tim Anderson
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Re: Bad Actors

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Report the post by clicking on the exclamation mark in the upper right corner of the post.
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St Vrain Angler
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Re: Bad Actors

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Post by St Vrain Angler »

Thanks, Tim.

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Brian K. Shaffer
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Re: Bad Actors

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Post by Brian K. Shaffer »

I fully realize this isn't exactly ideal on how to block a user - but this works.

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You can add the user to your FOE list.

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Doublegun
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Re: Bad Actors

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Just posted a "Rant" about scammers on the General forum.
Around the steel no tortured worm shall toil.

barebo
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Re: Bad Actors

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I have some nice books on the classifieds and had an inquiry from someone with 0 (Zero) posts. I replied and the response was an offer for less money and they wanted my payment method preference? Scam - should I decline this to maintain a safe account?

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Titelines
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Re: Bad Actors

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Post by Titelines »

Report the PM by clicking on the exclamation mark in the PM's body.

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Re: Bad Actors

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Post by barebo »

Thank you Mark. I'd read about doing exactly that but was looking for an opinion as to whether or not it was spam, and I believe you answered that .
Will do.

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