Nonsese Posts

[Ringlet]

What are all these nonsense posts that have suddenly appeared in great numbers? Is it possible to report these to get them removed?

[fiction-factory]

There's one in B&F now. Contains no links. Seems pointless
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Business-and-Finance/Question1444899.html

[fiction-factory]

Gone now- thanks Ed, my reporting worked.
I'm puzzled as to why spammers go to this trouble when there is no link and it is so difficult to see what they are promoting within the gobbldyggok

[Mamyalynne]

Ringlet , be very careful about what websites you go roaming around, keep safe.

[Baldric]

///The thing is you have to open the post to report it.///

No you don't, there is a report button in bottom R/hand corner of every post
including the OP, click on it, complete report, password req'd is the one you use to Log on to AB,
Simples!!!!!

[fiction-factory]

Let's see if this appears under the question I'm answering this time.

I'm not sure, Baldric- I assumed she meant that the post opens when you click on it in Latest posts.
Apart from that I'm not sure how one opens a post

[Baldric]

See Togo, 12.36, 1st page.

[Mamyalynne]

I took it to mean - open the 'thread' in order to access the 'report' button.

That won't cause any harm to you.

As stated simply don't click anything in the body of the text.

[fiction-factory]

Thanks. Baldric. I am not sure what is meant by opening a post, but in order to report a post you normally need to read it and to do that You have to access it- maybe Togo meant that when he referred to having to open a post

[Baldric]

Ah, ok, silly me!

[Togo]

That was my intended meaning fictfact. Although baldric was correct in a technical sense. Mama was also right, we are a clever lot are we not.

[Mamyalynne]

Why silly?

[Mamyalynne]

I fear I have put my foot where I shouldn't.

[Baldric]

///Why silly?///

Maybe not silly, just couldn't be bothered to discuss further with a superior intellect who can obviously see through common sense to the extra layers of meaning concealed beneath!

[Mamyalynne]

Utter balderdash, and you know it.

[fiction-factory]

I bet you wish you hadn't mentioned it at 13:44 now. I think we were all just trying to clarify what needs to be done before a post can be reported.

[Baldric]

What I said at 13.44 was correct, the only thing you have to open to read and report would be a Link and I think we both agree that would be a bad idea.

[EDDIE51]

Just reported 2 more but they vanished almost as soon as they appeared!

[Jackdaw33]

I may be wrong but I think they may originate from Asia and have been fed into an on-line translator, hence the gibberish. I particularly liked the one which suggested what I could do to help my crapper.

[Baldric]

I'm staying away, there are those more pedantic than me who obviously hold more valid opinions!

[fiction-factory]

We're still getting numerous nosense spam posts in B&F.
I still don't get it- there are no links in there, just occasional references to some meds I think. I can't work out why they bother.