Does anyone who works at this place see a problem?

Can’t you block IP addresses? This has been going on for a couple of weeks but it exploded over the weekend.
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I don't t hink they can do that.
Plenty of other websites will block IP addresses. Deleting accounts is just playing wack a mole. Kill their IP adress and at least its a little harder except they will probably go through an anonymizer then.
Yes, they could do something here, but it won't happen.
cuss
sorry, this dumb carpenter was visiting and having a heck of a good time in Nashville.
No time to delete each and every damn one of them.
My apologies.
As to your idea of setting them up for auto block-sorry again, my pleas have fallen on deaf ears for quite a long time.
so, you're stuck with me, my finger and the button.
Blocking IP addresses won't work, but they could easily use a scanner to detect the junk posts. As it is, their "spam detector" only detects legitimate posts.
Your average high school kid could probably figure out how to block those posts. It really makes me wonder why Taunton doesn't do something. Google hits maybe?
Taunton does nothing because Calvin takes care of it. They have no reason to put out any effort.
I would think they would want to have a Fine website, not a jacked up one, but "wadda I know"?
And thanks for Calvin taking out the trash.
You gotta understand that someone in Taunton has his ego on the line for having picked this software, so it's hard to admit that there's a problem.
No one has to admit anything. Just silently fix the problems. It's perplexing to me.
When you don't know how to fix it yourself you have to admit it when you spend the company's money to fix the problem. Especially if it involves breaking a contract with the owner's son-in-law.
Well, you got a point there.