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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1766769" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p><span style="color: #333333">Hello Mac-Forums members. Not very often we find it necessary to send out a sight-wide announcement. The Mac-Forums Staff has been dealing with some trolls for quite some time now...and up to this point we have been dealing with the situation behind the scenes (as we normally do with unruly members and spammers). Which is to revoke membership or ban them for unacceptable activity.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">Up to this point...this person or person's has been creating multiple accounts/userid's...posting unacceptable content in the open forum's...and the occasional silly/unacceptable private message to the Mac-Forums Staff. When these userids/accounts have been banned...this troll or trolls create new account's...and the process starts over again. We have had no trouble dealing with this. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">But lately this troll or trolls has taken things to the next level...and has begun impersonating/spoofing the Mac-Forums Staff...by creating subtly similar userids and copy & paste Mac-Forums Staff avatars. For example...Raz0rEdge becomes RazOrEdge...and pigoo3 becomes pigoo3. (period at the end)...and using the same avatar. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">This person or person's then makes thread posts with this fake Mac-Forums Staff userid & avatar...and appears to be a legitimate Mac-Forum's Staff member. Also...this person or person's has started to private message member's (posing as a Mac-Forums Staff member)...which is totally unacceptable.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">An important goal for us is to keep Mac-Forums a friendly, welcoming, non-bullying, clean-language, spam-free, safe place to visit. Nothing mentioned above is in anyway anything to be concerned about...just a little extra work for us. We just wanted to communicate to everyone what was up...and if you see anything out of the ordinary...or receive a strange private message...please report the strange thread, post, or PM to us...and we will take care of it!</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">We are currently working with Penton (the owner of Mac-Forums) to improve site security & anti-spam measure's to eliminate these issues. As always...we really appreciate the posting reports we receive from members. It really helps the Mac-Forums Staff identify as quickly as possible...posts that may be unacceptable...and deal with them as necessary.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">Thanks very much,</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333">The Mac-Forums Staff</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1766769, member: 56379"] [COLOR=#333333]Hello Mac-Forums members. Not very often we find it necessary to send out a sight-wide announcement. The Mac-Forums Staff has been dealing with some trolls for quite some time now...and up to this point we have been dealing with the situation behind the scenes (as we normally do with unruly members and spammers). Which is to revoke membership or ban them for unacceptable activity.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]Up to this point...this person or person's has been creating multiple accounts/userid's...posting unacceptable content in the open forum's...and the occasional silly/unacceptable private message to the Mac-Forums Staff. When these userids/accounts have been banned...this troll or trolls create new account's...and the process starts over again. We have had no trouble dealing with this. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]But lately this troll or trolls has taken things to the next level...and has begun impersonating/spoofing the Mac-Forums Staff...by creating subtly similar userids and copy & paste Mac-Forums Staff avatars. For example...Raz0rEdge becomes RazOrEdge...and pigoo3 becomes pigoo3. (period at the end)...and using the same avatar. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]This person or person's then makes thread posts with this fake Mac-Forums Staff userid & avatar...and appears to be a legitimate Mac-Forum's Staff member. Also...this person or person's has started to private message member's (posing as a Mac-Forums Staff member)...which is totally unacceptable.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]An important goal for us is to keep Mac-Forums a friendly, welcoming, non-bullying, clean-language, spam-free, safe place to visit. Nothing mentioned above is in anyway anything to be concerned about...just a little extra work for us. We just wanted to communicate to everyone what was up...and if you see anything out of the ordinary...or receive a strange private message...please report the strange thread, post, or PM to us...and we will take care of it![/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]We are currently working with Penton (the owner of Mac-Forums) to improve site security & anti-spam measure's to eliminate these issues. As always...we really appreciate the posting reports we receive from members. It really helps the Mac-Forums Staff identify as quickly as possible...posts that may be unacceptable...and deal with them as necessary.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]Thanks very much,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333]The Mac-Forums Staff[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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