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[Michiganian]

Now someone just needs to say how smith machines are bad for you. My week will be complete.

Just for you: I just gave somebody an opening: Smith Machines: Yea Or Nay?

[thedickus]

Just for you: I just gave somebody an opening: Smith Machines: Yea Or Nay?

Two years ago you'd have had no idea of the carnage you've just released. These days it will be on page 3 behind two page of foreign escorts spam posts by tomorrow.

[Michiganian]

Bumping the thread over the top of seven pages of Chineses spam.

[Michiganian]

Well, I can see that was an exercise in futility. The Chinese spammer is constantly hitting the forum.

I think I'm gonna reach out to the owner of one of the aforementioned forums and find out just what's involved, logistically and financially, in running a web forum. May be time to create a replacement for this place, since ownership doesn't appear to give a damn.

[67Vert]

Holy ****. The chinese spam bot is posting every 2 minutes.

[1651Naismith]

Giving it another bump…

[Michiganian]

Dunno how far I'll actually take this, but I'm gonna start looking for a decent domain name to register.

This is just utterly ridiculous

[CW47]

Dunno how far I'll actually take this, but I'm gonna start looking for a decent domain name to register.

This is just utterly ridiculous

I own and run an unrelated forum and have been a moderator & admin elsewhere prior to that. I'm happy to help out in whatever capacity I can. I know next to nothing on the technical side and have relied upon google for most of that stuff, but I'm very familiar with multiple types of forum software and could certainly help out with getting forum structure, member settings, and various other aspects setup. I had briefly entertained the idea of setting one up myself but would much rather support someone else in getting something started up. Let me know if there's anything I can do to assist.

[thedickus]

Two years ago you'd have had no idea of the carnage you've just released. These days it will be on page 3 behind two page of foreign escorts spam posts by tomorrow.

Damn, I called that but wasn't expecting six pages of Chinese spam.
Two years ago a Smith machine thread would've left several people not smart enough to use a machine that goes straight up and down completely butt hurt.

[radrd]

Bump

[radrd]

Bump

[CW47]

Just noticed that someone (presumably a forum administrator) logged into Ironwill's account to edit the stickied thread on Spam...

Here's the thread now: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showt...31&pagenumber=

And what it used to say: https://web.archive.org/web/20211202...hp?t=175077031

Why?... Should have just unstickied the thread, lmao.

[Michiganian]

Just noticed that someone (presumably a forum administrator) logged into Ironwill's account to edit the stickied thread on Spam...

Here's the thread now: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showt...31&pagenumber=

It's almost as if they want to drive membership away. ISTM it'd be far easier to just shut the thing down.

[Michiganian]

How are you reaching out to try to get admin rights? Moderator application form @ https://support.bodybuilding.com/hc/...=9743246940820 ?

So I went ahead and submitted a Moderator Application Form, anyway. Nothing to lose, really.

[Michiganian]

*sigh*... After (most of) one day of relief: The Chinese spammer is back again

[xdoomhammerx]

So I went ahead and submitted a Moderator Application Form, anyway. Nothing to lose, really.

Anybody who's willing to step up to shut this cr*pshow down has my vote! Let us know how it goes.

[ampire]

Did they all just simultaneously quit?

Moderators of this Forum

ironwill2008 LUKEDEICHER BodySpaceAdmin bbmod2 TheDukeUSMC memcop Dirk__Diggler pUniCepts VoxExMachina nics1246 Synapsin MissChill Dominik bbmod1 ctgblue SuffolkPunch Gxp23 WillNotBreak dj924s devilbones cgc Kartimob Ratheeshmob Pavithmob Ratheeshmobius narenmob

[CW47]

Did they all just simultaneously quit?

Granted, I only frequent a few of the sub-forums, but the only one I've seen active on the forums within the last year is SuffolkPunch, and haven't seen him post anything in a while now either. I can say without doubt that the moderation team managed/monitored by anyone. ironwill2008 passed away several years ago and is still listed as an active mod. My guess would be that mod applications are going to a black hole and will never be followed up on. It's readily apparent that those that have the power to facilitate these forums being cleaned up don't have any interest in doing so because it's really not that difficult if they DID want to do something about it. Sad.

[TheDude8734]

ironwill2008 passed away several years ago and is still listed as an active mod.

Dang, I was hoping that wasn't the case with ironwill2008. RIP.

EDIT :


Thankfully, he's posted in here as recently as December and even edited his post about spam on 12-23-2022

Looking at his posts below, the one from 2019 doesn't sound promising for the future of the board, as we're finding now.

[bisonp]

Yeah I thought I had seen him more recently.

Here's one of his last posts from a month ago: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showt...post1672453643

Not sure who may see this; maybe no one since the hundreds of posters with whom I once shared this journal along with my previous two maxxed-out journals has long-since been reduced to only a few current posters on this now-sad website. Everything here is pretty much irrelevant at this point, but I still felt compelled to close out my involvement here while I still had the chance.

First of all, thanks to the many who commented here concerning my contribution to this site over the years; your sentiments have not fallen on a deaf ear, nor will I ever forget any of you. My only goal for posting---and then moderating---on this site was always to try to help others find what I've found in bodybuilding and its associated lifestyle. Additionally, my goal was to help maintain a high level of integrity---overseeing of posting of correct and appropriate information and guidance---in the various training/nutrition-related forums.

I left this site 3 years ago after the ability to effectively moderate was taken away in an ill-conceived effort to maintain forum "traffic." As I predicted then, this resulted in entire subforums becoming blanketed by page after page of spam and off-topic nonsense posts, with no tools left to stop any of it. Most knowledgeable posters then left the forums in frustration rather than attempting to post amidst the BS. Additionally, pleas from both moderators as well as regular posters to fix broken forum functions have been ignored for years, compounding the problems. From time to time, I've logged in to see if there had been any positive change but always left again in disappointment.



BBdotcom was, at one time, the top source of training and nutrition information to be found anywhere on the internet. Out of over 300,000 forum-based websites, prior to around 2018, its traffic numbers ranked around 20th; last time I bothered to check, it was at about 8700th. I seriously wonder why site ownership hasn't long-since pulled the plug but suspect that might not be too far off, especially considering the two recent forum collapses.



To any of you still here who shared with me my three journals, thanks for contributing; we had a good run back then. I wish you all the best; perhaps we'll meet again at some place down the road.

[CW47]

Yeah I thought I had seen him more recently.

Here's one of his last posts from a month ago: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showt...post1672453643

Well, that is good news then! Apparently I misinterpreted something I read a while back. Apologies for the mistake.

[urbanlifter]

China appears to be dedicated to ruining this forum, spam on another level today!

[radrd]

China appears to be dedicated to ruining this forum, spam on another level today!

Yes, and it seems to be just the equipment forum. The others still have spam but it's FAR less. I don't know how spam bots work but "equipment" must be a trigger word suggesting there is money to be made. Or something. Who knows.

I posted a thread in misc to get the bot banned. It took a couple days but eventually someone noticed. Not sure if my thread helped because a mod never replied, so maybe coincidence. But the spam bot came back with a new user name. I'm going to keep checking in, but I'm not optimistic that this forum is going anywhere but away. BB.com doesn't seem interested in supporting it.

[Michiganian]

Anybody who's willing to step up to shut this cr*pshow down has my vote! Let us know how it goes.

TBH, I assumed the effort was futile. It's been two days and I haven't heard anything back. I won't be surprised if I never do.

Given ironwill2008's comments a month ago, noted by bisonp, it doesn't look like it would do any good even if I was made a moderator.

Right now I'm assuming one of two things will eventually happen: The business will go tango uniform or the forum database will crash so badly they can't bring it back, and that will be the end of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[MaineBarnLift]

I found one of the equipment thread moderators has some recent posts in another of the forums and messaged them to see if they can approve some of the pending moderator requests. I left a read request on there so I'll know if they say least look at the private message. Assuming mods can approve other mods?

Sorting by views gets rid of the spam from the first couple pages. It's a workaround. Still sucks, but at least better than these forums being unusable. I've been tempted to go through each of the useful threads and just bump them so they'll be preserved and not fall out of the thread listing. At least then the view sorting will bring them from the flood of spam that d-bag is bringing.

[Michiganian]

I found one of the equipment thread moderators has some recent posts in another of the forums and messaged them to see if they can approve some of the pending moderator requests. ... Assuming mods can approve other mods?

I would assume not. That's probably a function of the site Admin.

What I'd ask him or her is for insights as to WTH is happening with site administration and moderation. Why are they letting blatantly spamming accounts spam over and over and over and over and... again, day in, day out?

At least then the view sorting will bring them from the flood of spam that d-bag is bringing.

What I don't get is what that Chinese spammer hopes to achieve by that.

[urbanlifter]

Well looks like someone made the Equipment Crew and LWIBT threads a sticky, so that helps keep the mostvactive threads at the top no matter what!

[CW47]

Well...it won't be long now. The site is covered in kidy pron spam. Ugh.

[urbanlifter]

Do not go gentle into that good night Equipment Crew. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[CCFD2466]

Yeah I still enjoy this place.