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Today I deleted spamming threads complete with huge images of their goods from a Chinese company (now banned).

How I hate these guys who would want to destroy a community forum in order to make a cheap buck. If they sell that way then one can presume their products may be as dodgy...
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Blatant advert by a pseudo estate agent with fake registration removed from Town Hall tonight. The only advertising allowed is through GoogleAds.

Please do PM me if you see any other commercial ads in the Forum. They will be removed asap and the poster terminated.
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A poster injected casino gambling ads into a number of silly one-liner replies to various threads. The abuser was using a forged address.

All have been removed.
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Removed a very weird posting from Town Cafe this morning. This is a spam being posted to Forums all over the world. Goodness knows what the intention or mindset of the poster is. If you really need to know you can find identical postings by Googling "hacked satellites spain".

As a follow-up poster commented "get your tin foil helmets ready ..."

But do feel free (without repeating any of the deleted post) to comment on the motive behind it. Sure beats me!
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Post removed from Town Hall promoting an inappropriate website. Sort of chat noir ... from Russia.
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A post advertising private tuition removed from Town Cafe. The guidelines specifically prohibit advertising except through the (discrete) GoogleAds.

Can people also note that they also exclude posting email addresses. This is to protect the addressee from spambots which trawl the net looking for email addresses. Private Messaging (PM) is the preferred method of communicating via the Forum.

Thank you for your co-operation on these matters.
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I have removed two postings by the same author. One appeared to make an unacceptable racist slur and the other was, in my view, seeking to incite hatred.

I would like to think that they were done at a time when the poster was, perhaps, too tired and emotional.
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A local property ad was removed from Town Cafe this morning made by a new poster who probably did not realise the 'no ads' rule in posts. Advertisers can help support this community project by placing ads through Google. Click on the 'advertise on this site' link on any GoogleAd for more.
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Drug ad removed this morning. It as posted 3 days ago but I missed it. Please do PM me if you spot any of the usual drug/sex/casino stuff.

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Another drugs ad removed from Town Hall within minutes of being posted. Thanks to the sharp eyed member who alerted us.
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Porn video Ad removed from Town Hall. Origin probably the Ukraine.
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Betting hacker & inane post to get his website ranked removed. These people are becoming an increasing pain.
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Posting on Teletubbies removed from Town Cafe. Off topic and and too high a count of smileys :(

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The Chinese moderation thread was locked and the last two postings removed after one included an unacceptable insult.

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A 7 post 'chicken & egg' thread was removed from Town Cafe as it had nowt to do with Sydenham and failed to achieve any other redeeming feature.

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