I started a thread http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/22308
one of the reply is a spam. Can you figure out which one is it?
Any idea how to remove weeds from the crops? May be we should forgive the person as he/she is very new to hubs and misunderstood HP.
The whole trick to getting rid of forum spam is two-fold:
1) report it - it's surprising how many people miss the button
2) DON'T reply to it. A lot of people fail at this one, and then the spammy thread header and replies float around the forums forever.
by Kate Swanson 10 years ago
I just noticed that Matthew replied to a question from a Hubber and immediately closed the threadThere used to be an unspoken policy on the forums - a thread was only closed if things got too heated and unpleasant. I hope that policy is not going to change, for several reasons. For one thing,...
by Eric Calderwood 13 years ago
I'm new to the forums and am having a noob problem. When I post a reply to the main thread post I keep ending up in the sub-thread beneath the main thread. Many times my post doesn't relate to that sub-thread.I've noticed that others who post after me are aligned back to the left as a...
by Richard Bivins 14 years ago
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by rmcrayne 14 years ago
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by Katherine Tyrrell 7 years ago
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by Julie Grimes 14 years ago
Okay, so after we enable someone to do something, the ENABLE them to bring it to the forefront, find out we all have just be duped, and then ENABLE them to makes us look stupid for believing in them....And, then What? They are enabled, once again by closing their threads to reply? ...
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