Paging the administrator...

[rascalflats]

In recent days, there was a spambot who posted messages unrelated to the boards' mission of Our Gang/The Little Rascals.  I have reported this spambot, but no action was taken as yet.

Admin, if you are reading this, please take prompt action before this guy/bot/whatever causes even more trouble.  Even if it means having to disable registration indefinitely, I'm all for it.

I noticed these forums are pretty dry as of lately, and it seems to cause the spambots to take full advantage of their purpose.

[Mark]

Done!

I didn't disable registration yet, but I will if it continues. I've banned the bot's account.

[rascalflats]

There are more bots who have posted spam since. You should perhaps ban them too.

[farina]

There are more of them. I think it's time to disable registration.

[sillyrascal]

May 26, 2021 13:32:43 GMT -5 Mark said:

Done!

I didn't disable registration yet, but I will if it continues. I've banned the bot's account.

Thanks for not disabling registration! Otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to join & add what I found to the Wheezer conversation. I only just found this site after seeing reruns on PlutoTV, which reminded me how much I love these guys!

[rascalflats]

Another spammer alert.

There is a thread posted by "businesstobusiness" - obviously has nothing to do with the forum's purpose of being "The Little Rascals". I cannot believe the administrator has been away for so long and not keeping on top of these boards. It seems as if the administrator's absence likely paved the way for spambot activity, and it's likely only the beginning.

Based on past history, on other message boards, whenever a group of spambots get banned, such activity tends to die down, only to pick back up many months later.  It sounds like they are not only spambots, but more like scambots.

[rascalstooge]

I never pay attention to those spam/scambots.

[RJH]

I'll report those as spam and then ignore them and hope that does some good.