I've noticed a ton of spam in the last 24 hours. I wish HP had a better filtering system.
Yep, and no one is doing anything about it. I've reported loads of it, and the people posting it. It kind of makes you feel that no one gives a monkey's about HubPages anymore.
I hear you. I have reported it as well, and it's too time-consuming. I have better things to do, like write.
You don't need to report spam. You can concentrate on writing.
The spam is being removed as best as we can. It gets removed daily.
No, it is the comment feed or followers (with no articles) irritating you. They sell their products.
Now I understand. That must be incredibly annoying. I will give credit to HP regarding one aspect, however. Several years ago, I used to get spam emails from new members who would join just to send them via the contact the author feature. And other weird emails as well. I don’t receive those anymore. I do get emails from people who are not members but used to comment on articles on hubs that were not on LetterPile. They keep asking why they can’t post comments any more.
No, the complaint is about spam being posted on the forums, not directly to individuals. We've had a spate of blanket postings in a foreign language. So much so that genuine posts were pushed down to the second page. Same in the topical forum.
Most are easy to spot, leaving comments on two or three year old forum threads.
This is what we are talking about. This is the Topical forum. An AI-generated post followed by a spam comment, followed by the blanket posting of foreign-language spam.
by Bev G 4 years ago
It's been about 24 hours now. You know when someone is in the middle of leaving a comment and you see this? After a while the comment/s appear ready for approval. Mine seems to be stuck.
by Cynthia 11 years ago
How many hub views do you have for the last 24 hours?
by Stacie Naczelnik 16 years ago
I don't know if they realize they are doing it or not (I'm sure some don't realize they are spamming), but I'm particularly annoyed when a hubber sends out self-promotional messages and comments. I consider these spam.I still allow people to send me an email through hubpages, but might...
by Simon Cook 11 years ago
There is a lot of anger and/or frustration relating to the 'pending' system and most of it is down to the fact that it's not clear why there are exceptions - this is justified and there should be open-ness. (Note this only is aimed at new hubs, not hubs that become un-featured later)One way to do...
by Dr. John Anderson 11 years ago
The Googlebot visits new hubs within 30-60 minutes while they are in 'Pending' mode and the NOINDEX tag is in place for 24 Hours. This means that the bot does not index the page, and does not return for days or weeks. New pages do not get indexed for days or weeks. This causes lost traffic and lost...
by Thomas Swan 8 months ago
Hi, I've noticed Hubpages emails from editors, team, and the weekly newsletter all going into my spam folder this week in my gmail account. Not sure why. I marked them as "not spam" so I hope that helps.Could this be part of Google downgrading the whole site for being overly promotional?...
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