Just bugs / missing functionality reports - no griping

Majority of posts on first FIVE home pages were all Temu related last night .

Site was very bad on Chrome mobile and tablet last night .

I tried to read two threads and posted on one not realizing there were two pages that the 'elastic band ' bouncing would not let me access and ended up getting told off for not keeping up with the thread and posting now irrelevant posts !

Bit hard to keep up with all this bouncing and dragging back to first unread post . Giving up and posting here to mark that because I have stuck with the site all through the changes to Vanilla , new rules etc .

But everyone seems to getting more narky and impatient and who can blame them at this stage 😓

Yes same here

Idk. Displaying a timestamp on a discussion board seems to be both basic and fundamental. That the type of basic stuff test automation should detect and prevent from getting deployed. Ymmv

Anyways, apologies if it is not appropriate to raise things multiple time. I did a cursory search but did not see it.

Going to thank you personally for that effort 🥰 and of course the other friendly thanker !

Once upon a time we could see who it was that was kind enough to give us a thanks , but alas no more . Yes, except 10 on desktop or tablet , I know ..

Time of posts are not showing correctly

It's been like that a good few weeks now Jim, reported numerous times. If the word Temu is banned the bots will just find a workaround. I never see so much spam on any other site I visit it seems to be just here.

I just posted the text below in the Spammer thread, repeating it here for visibility.

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I think we should just stop reporting Temu spam, either in this thread or via the Flag/ Report function on the actual spam posts. There are simply too many of them for this approach.

They can be easily identified (by reviewing new sign-ups) and deleted by someone with Admin rights. It's still an ongoing whack-a-mole for whoever that is though - Mike or the other Admins.

Anyway, I have decided that I won't report any more of these T?mu spammers, because reporting does not turn back the tide (think King Canute).

Maybe a temporary fix would be to just exclude Feedback and DR threads from the Recent Posts list. I think those are the only two forums they can post in?

Stopping these spam threads/posts appearing in the Recent list in the first place should be the approach imo.

Thanks to all the other reporters here for the thankless effort, and keep doing it if it feels worthwhile.

I'm out…

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I always used to report the odd one as it appeared if it was at the top of the list. Recently I tried to report a load of them and gave up because I got this stupid vanilla message.

You have posted 2 times within 60 seconds. A spam block is now in effect on your account. You must wait at least 600 seconds before attempting to post again.

Won't be bothering reporting anymore.

But when the bots start posting about Temu won't it just show as ****?

So we'll just have loads of posts saying "**** REFERRAL CODE" etc?

Would it work to have as part of the registration process an instruction that each newbie must make a specifically worded post in a dedicated "First Post" thread before they can go any further?

ie: "My name is thesandeman and I confirm I am human".

I'm not a tech person and have no idea if it could be done or if the bots could get around it.

What triggers a thread to be labelled a "Question" thread?

This thread was opened earlier, one poster asked a clarifying question, the OP replied with "No" - and that's now been bumped to the top of the thread, and labelled as "Answered"

The whole "question" thing is useless, and all it seems to result in is the replies being mixed up randomly as this one demonstrates, and makes a nonsense of the whole thread.

Can that function be disabled? @Boards.ie: Mike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058401195/can-someone-elses-cash-a-cheque-in-my-name-with-out-me-knowing#latest

ETA - just to add to the ridiculousness of the whole thing - I now see that on desktop, the thread isn't even labelled anywhere as a "Question" - but the answers are all still out of order. At least on mobile you might be able to figure out what's gone on (if you know the foibles of the "Question" thread system) - on desktop it's just made an utter mess of the whole thing.

@HeidiHeidi Poster selecting the option when making thread.