05-01-2022, 04:02 PM
(05-01-2022, 07:42 AM)NOTE: Effective immediately, I shall begin to transition my A Doll A Day Project and other new content to The Dal House Forum. Wrote:
It saddens me to transition away from The Dolly Market Forum, which has been my "online home" for a number of years, ever since the Pinky-Street forum faded and disappeared. However, the spam posts have become too much of a nuisance to want to deal with. Even as a moderator, I am no longer able to address the spam issue. The moderation buttons to remove the spam are "backfiring," banning me instead of the spammers. I suspect the same might happen to anyone who clicks on the "report spam" links. The forum software appears to have been compromised on a level beyond my ability to circumvent.
The Dal House uses a different forum software system which, thus far at least, has remained stable and relatively spam-free.
I am not giving up entirely on Dolly Market. I will still check back here regularly, and will continue to cross-post A Doll A Day for the present time, while hoping the spam situation gets cleared up, or until the spam level becomes unbearable.
I'm not yet abandoning this ship, but I'm taking it in tow from a more stable platform while we man the pumps and hope for the best.
I know most of you are also members at The Dal House, so I hope to see you around over there. Dal House Admin (TrueFan) is looking for ways to boost activity -- both Dal and non-Dal -- at the forum, and she is fine with any doll or doll-related content.
UPDATE: I think I figured out a cumbersome but effective workaround for banning some spammers and deleting some spam posts. The method doesn't work for all spam posts. It seems to depend on which category the spam appears in. Most of the recent spam has now been removed. So I'll still be here -- somebody's gotta sweep the dust out of the corners that these spammers track in -- but I'm going to be increasing my activity level at The Dal House as well. It is very kind of TrueFan to welcome us in over there.
Prompted by this I registered over at The Dal House. I'll probably post my weekly pics in both places, but always nice to have another place to look at dolls doing stuff online.