wrench13 - Posted - 05/22/2025:  05:26:15

How does a posting titled " HOW TO CAST A DEATH SPELLS IN SPAIN ITALY CANADA " allowed to get posted on this forum?? My grandson sees this!

groundhogpeggy - Posted - 05/22/2025:  06:00:33

? That sounds like something that got onto one of my YouTubes. I'd recently made a clawhammer lesson for my friend's teenage granddaughter in Hawaii...and the next time I checked on it there were nearly 400 comments all about weird stuff having to do with some nefarious something-or-other in Spain. I had to take the video down and just put up a duplicate to get those comments off.

DougD - Posted - 05/22/2025:  06:24:49

Have you reported it to the moderators? That seems to be the only way things like this get taken of, and it does seem to work.
I'm not very active online, but this forum seems very lightly moderated (or not at all). Some other forums don't allow new members to post at all for a period of time, or their posts have to be screened by a moderator. Here there may be a restriction on new members posting attachments at first, but I suspect that might just be because they don't understand the process.
On the "Member Homepages" page new members are listed as they join. Some have quite unusual names or avatars, and also list their location as "New York, HI" or "Cleveland, American Samoa." These "members" are the source of most of this type of spam. There aren't too many right now, but I followed one, and their one post was a comment, containing a link, on one of Brian Wood's transcriptions. Turns out this transcription had three comments, all similar. If Brian gets notifications its up to him to remove this stuff himself.
I think it would be better if these new "members" could be screened in some way. They're pretty obviously bogus, but maybe its just not worth the effort. This is really a very small forum, with only a handful (maybe a large handful) of very active members.
What I wondered about these death spells was why they are only available for certain countries. That doesn't seem very useful.
As far as what your grandson sees, that seems like a family matter, and I'm not going to get involved.

wrench13 - Posted - 05/22/2025:  06:51:47

Both posts reported.

DougD - Posted - 05/22/2025:  07:16:51

And already gone (I think there were actually three).