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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 01:19 AM
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Spam Threads

Hi all,

As you know, we occasionally get users posting what are obviously adverts on the site. When you report them, an email is sent out to the Mods that deal with that forum. Sometimes the thread is left in place for a few hours. The reason for this is that we are not online all of the time. The moment I get a reported post, I investigate it as soon as I read my email, and then delete it if neccessary. Please remember, the Mod team are not employees of The Mustang Source, we do this for free and the satisfaction it gives us. So if you report a thread, be assured that it will be looked into, and please do not worry if the thread is not dealt with immediately, we all have lives as well!

Thanks for reading this

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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 08:09 AM
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Lives?

Just joking...

thanks a lot guys for keeping this place in primo shape

It is much appreciated.
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Old Sep 6, 2006 | 09:02 PM
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I'm always impressed at the speed that they're actually deleted at after myself or someone else reports them.
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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 01:16 AM
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Hi all, it seems that the spammers are back with a vengeance.

As stated above, we remove the spam threads (and ban the poster) as soon as we possibly can. As Lalo said, I missed the latest one by a matter of 50 minutes, but have removed it as soon as I came back online.

There have been about 10 spam threads in the past few days, and they have always been deleted within 24 hours. Comments about "the mods sleeping" are not particularly helpful, and I would ask you to refrain from making them.

If you have any problems, please click on one of our usernames, and hit the "send member an email", or PM us, we'll get right back to you.

That is all have a good day.

Please do not even reply to the threads, people see replies and automatically go into the thread to see what it is about.
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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 06:24 AM
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Jeesh guys, if we're talking about the hoodia thread I was just making a light hearted joke about mods "sleeping". Normally those threads disappear before I even have a chance to open them up, so the thread being there for more than 10 minutes was a little unusual.
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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 06:27 AM
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Thanks James!
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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 08:32 AM
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I just banned one before they even got to post.
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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 02:36 PM
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I'll just call tech support, Scothew, if I see any.
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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 04:41 PM
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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 05:21 PM
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I was just about to be smarty and ask if we can report all the Giugiaro Mustang threads to Scothew as well...

... but I see he just made it a Stickey!
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Old Nov 29, 2006 | 08:46 PM
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I am a authorized advertiser to the TMS website.

Where did my Ads go?

TDS
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Old Jul 5, 2008 | 09:57 PM
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Haven't you heard of spam in a can ?
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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 04:30 PM
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it was a Steve Miller take the mulla and run
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Old Oct 23, 2008 | 06:30 AM
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Thanks Mods
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