Are there any women here?

All bad, very bad, containing Facebook Links and Stuff. NAS, sort this out, Thanks.    :-(

A new take upon SPAMMING, as Begun by "Francis Ford NAS37128"...

I reported it last night?

seems they are busy answering many PHONE calls!

So this thread was an early copybot copy of this genuine question a couple of months previously:

https://community.autism.org.uk/f/adults-on-the-autistic-spectrum/11727/are-there-any-women-here

The copybot spammer then replaced the post at the top with spam, and then when people realised what had happened it was blanked by the moderator.

So if anyone wants to participate, please don't do so here: you can at the original post, or on its continuation, or a more recent thread 'Women on the Spectrum... revisited'.

NAS Moderator, I notice that all the other remaining copybot threads have been locked. For completeness could this one be too, unless there's a good reason not to? I'd take it as a signal that NAS37128 is definitely moderated too.

Disambiguating Cynosure, can you perchance recall why you referred to the spammer as "Francis Ford NAS37128"? Was "Francis Ford" a name added to the original post?

So this thread was an early copybot copy of this genuine question a couple of months previously:

https://community.autism.org.uk/f/adults-on-the-autistic-spectrum/11727/are-there-any-women-here

The copybot spammer then replaced the post at the top with spam, and then when people realised what had happened it was blanked by the moderator.

So if anyone wants to participate, please don't do so here: you can at the original post, or on its continuation, or a more recent thread 'Women on the Spectrum... revisited'.

NAS Moderator, I notice that all the other remaining copybot threads have been locked. For completeness could this one be too, unless there's a good reason not to? I'd take it as a signal that NAS37128 is definitely moderated too.

Disambiguating Cynosure, can you perchance recall why you referred to the spammer as "Francis Ford NAS37128"? Was "Francis Ford" a name added to the original post?

Greets, DC. Thanks for explanation – I don't watch Top Gear.

Triggering my compulsive pedantry syndrome, I wouldn't describe the behaviour of this thread as an error exactly. At least, there's no visible error message. I'm wondering if it's been left as a test case by the moderators, as I see no reason it isn't locked.

By the way, from your new thread, the example:

https://community.autism.org.uk/f/miscellaneous-and-chat/12136/new-friend/

is now showing full replies without you having to click on an upvoted. This problem seems to come and go each time a thread is commented on.

I think there's been progress generally, what with https security, and a decrease in spam over the last week. The server seems to have been more stable too & I haven't seen a 503 error for weeks. I expect WebPM will report back soon.

Greets to Cassandro... I do not often pan down (search the history), especially on HOT days... but I see this now and post and see what happens. Do not worry about the "Francis Ford" bit - it was a joke from myself which obviously no-one "got", hmmmmm? (Except fans of Top Gear!)

...This is another Thread which gives STRANGE Errors. If continuing, I may start another Thread linking to such Threads. NAS cannot help but notice them in that case. 

Thanks, Lonewarrior, yes I also noticed that the thread wasn't appearing in the list of most recent posts when I replied.

Maybe besides a 'lock' option, the moderators can 'suppress' it in some other way or have a tick box called 'temporal stasis like flies in amber' or something.

I wasn't here when there was a surge of baseball results spam. I'd probably registered, but wasn't on here often. It may have been the same spammers as copybot. The copybot spammers actually started last summer, but accelerated with copies and meaningless generic posts in the last few weeks, although they've been fairly quiet since about Wednesday.

I think this thread exactly copied the genuine text and title, and the title hasn't changed. What I'd quite like to be assured of is that the spamming account NAS37128 is moderated.

I'll ask Ross-Mod, who I have in my list of direct messages.

So although I have now replied twice,,now three times this thread does not move onto the latest replies list, so not locked but stuck in time, never destined to get back to be seen as current, 

I hope the original is still in place but feel this thread is part of what happened and may serve as how it was dealt with by the members. 

Time now 22:40,

date 23:07:2018,

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replies=34,

Just wondering? After I replied it did not appear in the latest list on the main page, trial to see if it does now, 

Hi cassandro these were turbulent times indeed, we had many times when we felt hellless and under siege as constant new threads all containing similar as the above would first start with one simple post in the “ introduce yourself section” once it was replied to by yet another new ambiguous ariival it then started posting in every section and as it accelerated was every few seconds a new thread, we were all pretty over whelmed, no one was here to stop the relentless siege of new threads all containing score results of American foot ball or base ball games, I don’t remember things exactly but it worried us, we could not feel safe, several of us tried to start new posts to make them go down the page list, they were not replied to as we all agreed and warned all not to.

it was as if we were being pillaged,,,we had no control, gatecrashed, nervous, frightened, we tried to start new threads about jokes anything we could stay on and ignore what was happening out there.

the original thread was very successful and was as you say suddenly Joined by the above, I do not remember the original title changing though, Dysallowed will know.

they were unstable times, much down time, unstable freezing, loss of connection, being continually logged out, crazy times for all.

thank you for helping so much and trying still to find things that happened, you need someone who can remember more detail than me though.