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 Author: Nicolasamico37 View Messages Posted By Nicolasamico37
 Posted: Apr 24, 2025 09:48
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Nicolasamico37 (1235)

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Why is it so terrible now ?
Spam in the forum is worse than ever.
I love going here, read you and help members who need help... But without real
change from TLC, it would be difficult to stay here.

Nicolas
 
 Author: iprice View Messages Posted By iprice
 Posted: Apr 24, 2025 09:58
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In Problem, Nicolasamico37 writes:
  Why is it so terrible now ?
Spam in the forum is worse than ever.
I love going here, read you and help members who need help... But without real
change from TLC, it would be difficult to stay here.

Nicolas


I totally agree and it really is awful, especially since BrickLink is now owned
by a huge company that makes billions in profit.

There are 10x more spam posts than genuine posts nowadays - and there's absolutely
no need for it; there are numerous methods the devs of the site could use to
prevent this rubbish, which have all been discussed many many times. Ignoring
the issue does not make it go away.

Also, it seems to be taking longer and longer for the Mods to take the spam down
nowadays.

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 Author: TheBrickGuys View Messages Posted By TheBrickGuys
 Posted: Apr 25, 2025 00:16
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I totally agree and it really is awful, especially since BrickLink is now owned
by a huge company that makes billions in profit.



Oh come now, it's not that much. Last I heard, their profit for March of
this year was 5 bucks and a couple bottle caps - that's it.

Jim
 Author: jennnifer View Messages Posted By jennnifer
 Posted: Apr 25, 2025 08:42
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In Problem, TheBrickGuys writes:
  
  

I totally agree and it really is awful, especially since BrickLink is now owned
by a huge company that makes billions in profit.



Oh come now, it's not that much. Last I heard, their profit for March of
this year was 5 bucks and a couple bottle caps - that's it.

Jim

Profits aside, I believe the real issue is:

1. They would have to care about the Forum.

2. They would have to care about the Forum.

and

3. They would need a reason to care about the Forum.


~Jen
 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
 Posted: Apr 25, 2025 12:55
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  Profits aside, I believe the real issue is:

1. They would have to care about the Forum.

2. They would have to care about the Forum.

and

3. They would need a reason to care about the Forum.


And even more... They would need to know the forum existed.
 Author: BricksThatStick View Messages Posted By BricksThatStick
 Posted: Apr 24, 2025 09:59
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In Problem, Nicolasamico37 writes:
  Why is it so terrible now ?
Spam in the forum is worse than ever.
I love going here, read you and help members who need help... But without real
change from TLC, it would be difficult to stay here.

Nicolas

Hiding the spam topic here helps a lot:

https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P
 Author: Nicolasamico37 View Messages Posted By Nicolasamico37
 Posted: Apr 24, 2025 10:04
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Nicolasamico37 (1235)

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In Problem, BricksThatStick writes:
  In Problem, Nicolasamico37 writes:
  Why is it so terrible now ?
Spam in the forum is worse than ever.
I love going here, read you and help members who need help... But without real
change from TLC, it would be difficult to stay here.

Nicolas

Hiding the spam topic here helps a lot:

https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P

Hiding them is not really the problem, above all, they need to be reported !
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
 Posted: Apr 24, 2025 10:20
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In Problem, Nicolasamico37 writes:
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Hiding them is not really the problem, above all, they need to be reported !

If they are in the Spam topic, there’s 99% chance that it’s because one of us
moved them, and reported them.
But you can still report them too.  The more, the merrier.
 Author: Stuart9 View Messages Posted By Stuart9
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Exactly what I’ve done, didn’t bother for a while but the spam has got too much.

It seems most get moved to spam fairly quickly so I don’t see most of them now.





In Problem, BricksThatStick writes:
  In Problem, Nicolasamico37 writes:
  Why is it so terrible now ?
Spam in the forum is worse than ever.
I love going here, read you and help members who need help... But without real
change from TLC, it would be difficult to stay here.

Nicolas

Hiding the spam topic here helps a lot:

https://www.bricklink.com/messageFilter.asp?viewFrom=P
 Author: Retrofire View Messages Posted By Retrofire
 Posted: Apr 24, 2025 10:01
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In Problem, Nicolasamico37 writes:
  Why is it so terrible now ?
Spam in the forum is worse than ever.
I love going here, read you and help members who need help... But without real
change from TLC, it would be difficult to stay here.

Nicolas

Hi! There was an earlier post on how to do this and it really helped me. Go to
account settings, then select My Discussion Forum Settings. Once there select
Spam and anything else you don't wish to see on the forums. Save your settings
and refresh.
 Author: noid55 View Messages Posted By noid55
 Posted: Apr 24, 2025 10:58
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In Problem, Retrofire writes:
  In Problem, Nicolasamico37 writes:
  Why is it so terrible now ?
Spam in the forum is worse than ever.
I love going here, read you and help members who need help... But without real
change from TLC, it would be difficult to stay here.

Nicolas

Hi! There was an earlier post on how to do this and it really helped me. Go to
account settings, then select My Discussion Forum Settings. Once there select
Spam and anything else you don't wish to see on the forums. Save your settings
and refresh.

Thank you for writing down the steps to hide the Spam topic! Huge improvement
from flagging each of the posts.