So... I haven't been here for a while. Imagine my pleasure when I realized that I had gotten a lot of new followers in the meantime. And now imagine my disgust when I realized that almost all of them were spam profiles, mostly for some French torrent sites: I have 223 (two hundred and twenty-three!!!) spam followers!
@Booklikes, you should seriously consider implementing a program that prevents spambots from creating profiles. Really seriously.
I'll be blocking them all, so just take a look at my blocked contacts if you want to know which to delete.
Thank you for reporting and so sorry for trouble! :/ We're aware of the issue and working on the solutions as well as dealing with the accounts as we speak. One more time sorry for this moment of disappointment, we do hope that your BookLikes come back will have a brighter side too :) We are tremendously happy, Martini, to see you back! :) If we can do something better, please do let us know and we'll do all to follow :)
Oooh... Thank you so much for your kind words! Kate, is that you? If so, I want to say 'ditto' with all my bookish heart, I'm so happy to see you're back! :)
Also thanks for trying to get rid of that spambot plague. Keep up the good work!
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Thank you, we'll do! Psss, yes it's Kate ;) #bookishhugs
http://booklikes.com/thread/2908/of-decency-and-death-a-story-of-the-netherlands-in-world-war-ii
This is either flagrant marketing, or a misguided creation of what should have been its own discussion group. But it LOOKS like flagrant marketing, as there seems to be no invitation to discuss or attempt to start a discussion, just a link at the bottom for buying the book.
We've got advertising spam in "Find New BookLikes Blogs to Follow."
Thank you for being alert and for reporting these.
Do we still have to give them the viewing and the following in order to block them? I'm still really wanting to able to just block or report account without having to give them the interaction.
There's a spammer running amok in the discussion groups - has created spam in this group, the buddy reads group and the book swap group (I was able to delete the discussion in book swap).
luosufei is the account name (it's so obviously spam I have no issues naming names).
Another spammer - http://yanghuang.booklikes.com/
Hit this group and at least one other.
Thanks... Unfortunately there's another one: http://yangyueyue.booklikes.com/
They've spammed:
http://booklikes.com/groups/show/747/mansions-moonlight-and-menace-the-gothic-romance
http://booklikes.com/groups/show/16/buddy-reads
so far.
No worries - I appreciate the super quick response. :)
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