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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Sep 2011 20:57

:-D :-D :-D

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

jax

jax Report 14 Sep 2011 20:24

I think it could be so that free members who have found people through contacts from others on trees can then post a thank you on success stories.

Yes Sylvia if I did'nt get to them first to report :-D

jax

Researching:
Nothing much

Elisabeth

Elisabeth Report 14 Sep 2011 20:04

Thanks Phil,

Like Sylvia, I shall almost miss the emails from your team confirming the reporting of these posts.

Still don't quite understand how they, or anyone else, would be able to post on the Success Board when they hadn't paid a membership fee. Thought any Free members couldn't post, only receive messages from members.

Elisabeth xx

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Sep 2011 19:55

Thank you, Phil


I'm glad that you have found the source of the problem .............. it certainly was annoying!




but it did give me something to do if I got bored in the wee hours of the morning (UK time) ...... keep checking the Success Board!! :-D




sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 14 Sep 2011 15:33

Thank you Phil

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

philmoir

philmoir Report 14 Sep 2011 15:28

Thank you very much to everyone who reported the rogue posts on Success Stories and for your patience too. We have identified that the have been over 1000 rogue memberships (for spammers) created in the last month, but only in the last week have they escalated activity against our site. In addition to the rogue posts, they have also been sending lots of other invalid requests to the site which may well have been contributing to the performance issues. I can't tell whether they were using an automated system to send the requests, or whether it is people being paid very cheaply to manually make the requests, but we have done two things. First we have deleted all the accounts from our membership database (I checked and all posts by these members had been reported and removed). Secondly we have blocked the IP address so that they cannot access the website (or any of it's variations). We will continue to monitor this closely, and keep you updated.

Thanks again for you help and patience.
Phil Moir

Researching:
I am the former lead developer for the Genes Reunited website team and the former lead developer of the Findmypast Tree team. I do not work for this company anymore. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions. My research areas of interest are East London, North-West Cumbria, North-East Scotland and Edinburgh.

Andrew

Andrew Report 14 Sep 2011 08:31

Back again. Reported another one.

Andy

BatMansDaughter

BatMansDaughter Report 14 Sep 2011 07:58

GR must be getting as fed up by now of it as we are.. surely????

Time to charge before being able to add to the success board. Would have thought that this should have been standard to begin with.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Sep 2011 07:30

and the night's collection has now all disappeared :-D

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Sep 2011 05:09

and on it goes!

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

patchem

patchem Report 13 Sep 2011 07:50

They had all gone by 07.50, so the board is looking a lot more sensible (for now).

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 13 Sep 2011 06:24

There were 18 of these things posted between about 8:30 pm UK time last night and 5:50 am this morning

All have been reported for review. I did 4.

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 11 Sep 2011 23:31

they seem to be posted in batches


at least GR has removed the earlier ones in their entirety!




sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 11 Sep 2011 23:10

Not given up yet as just reported another one

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 11 Sep 2011 21:56

Shame they do not put as much effort into doing other things as I am sure they will make a "success" of something

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

jax

jax Report 11 Sep 2011 20:48

If they do not agree they dont say anything sylv.

I got seven replies...I just checked :-D

jax

Researching:
Nothing much

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 11 Sep 2011 19:46

jax

Not if they don't agree with your report ;-)


I only got one, referring specifically to one of the posts ....... and I must have reported 7 or 8




sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

jax

jax Report 11 Sep 2011 19:23

Thats the standard reply to any report though sylv

Have not looked at my emails but should have about eight of those :-)

jax

Researching:
Nothing much

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 11 Sep 2011 19:20

got an email regarding one of the posts that I reported from GR this morning ....... they said


"After considering your request we believe the content to be unacceptable and outside of the terms and conditions and message board guidelines of the site. This content has therefore been removed."


then they thank me





Notice that there are 2 more, but they have already been reported




sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

patchem

patchem Report 11 Sep 2011 10:15

No, they have not, it is on-going.

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