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I'm still around Alva
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Golden, and speaking of cwillie--are you out there woman?
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Alva, Daisy did mention she had lots to do after CWillie posted about maybe dropping off AC. Still - makes you wonder... I miss Geaton!
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Geaton still missing. Driving Daisy not around and she usually lets us know if she's leaving; so a concern.
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Chris, I have sent through a form email wise in case Geaton's issue wasn't addressed.
Doing it now.
Daisy isn't around. It is unusual that she's gone for a bit and hasn't let the Forum know, as she is often around both answering and chatting.
I wondered about Geaton. Thought she got finally fed up. Now I know differently.
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Geaton STILL cannot access the forum, her posts are all gone again, she cannot even create a new username. The tech team is not fixing all the issues here and admin is not responding to emails.
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It looks as tho JoAnn is back! Whoopee. A day at a time.
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Barb, I see your post.
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I can't post (this is a test)
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And here we go again with the hackers on this site. Obviously AC has A LOT more work to do on this ongoing issue.
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JoAnn would like to be counted as one who still cannot post, as well.
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I have not been able to post anything for several days now. I can read posts, messages to me, and 'like' posts and comments but that is all.
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The website is working, even if it is working wonkily.

I was here.
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BarbB posted this morning that the still site wasn't working for her
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JoAnn cannot post comments today either, they do not show up.
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Geaton was automatically logged off the forum this morning and now she cannot log back in. The "fixes" aren't working for everyone.
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Thanks AC. Just to let you know that old messages I deleted long ago continue to be being dumped in my profile messaging inbox. I am eliminating them fast as I can and they keep coming. A new batch showed up this a.m. so I am thinking we are still dealing with some stability issues in the Forum site.

Appreciate how hard you are trying, but am personally worried about the safety of the site itself.
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Hi all,

We want to let you know that our tech team has deployed a fix to mitigate the sign-in issues caused by spam-blocking restrictions implemented last week. Thank you again for your patience. We're working diligently to keep the forum safe and easy to use.
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Testing...

ETA It works!!! Thank you AC for fixing this and no spam this morning.
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Tested my ability to post in many places yesterday and overnight.
It seems to be working, at least for me.

Hoping others who have had trouble can find their way back.

I found that some threads are no longer automatically set to the "Newest first" and you have to reset that thread.
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Now certain folks are having difficulty posting and or logging in. Geaton cannot post in Safari or Chrome, she gets automatically logged out when trying to post a comment. Alva is locked out but was able to post about it earlier:
https://www.agingcare.com/discussions/locked-out-495716.htm
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Congratulations to AgingCare for getting rid of those ding dang spam bots that were as persistent as they were annoying! I can only imagine how complicated the situation was to sort out.

Thanks to all! 🙏
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Hi all,

We want to let you know that our tech team has deployed a fix to counteract the spam activity in the forum. We’re also investigating ways to strengthen our filters and stop spam from being posted in the first place. Thank you for your patience!

We’re committed to keeping this forum safe, supportive, and easy to use. We truly appreciate you sticking with us as we work through these improvements.
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AC mods, a new day & its 10AM and the bots are back. So far 20+ in the questions forum AND NOW they have found “discussions” forum! There are pages and pages of scam bot posts there as well.

This forum is part of AP4M. They are going to get into that and all it’s data. You have got to do something about this. For me this is becoming way too bothersome, compromised and flat out spooky to stay active in this forum. I’m sure others feel the same.
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PLEASE Aging Care fix this ongoing problem or at least let us all know what the heck is going on and what you guys are doing to at least try and fix it.
I keep trying to be hopeful that this is the day that things will be different, but nope here we go again with the annoying hacks.
My patience now is wearing beyond thin.
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My question, after going through 10 pages of spam and no new questions that make any sense whatever is this:
IS THERE A WAY for our admins to have oversite BEFORE A QUESTION IS POSTED to the AC site.
I must agree that this level of attack will wear out even the most persistent regulars.

IF there is no way to stop this particular "bug"-- and clear IPs isn't the answer as each post comes from another name--the basically this site is not going to survive.

I hope that AC will update us on this every few days.
I'm close to taking off a few weeks, myself.

I am curious if this is ransom-ware of some type. If so, AC may be done with. I doubt they would pay 100s of 1,000s to keep this site alive.
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AC mods, at 8:30AM CDT today, there has been over 100 scam questions - aka bot phishing - posts out of Indonesia in the past 9 hours. Over 100 overnight.! This happening today after 3 different weekends of scam posts. All - based on languages and references to Toyo - coming out Indonesia.

Whatever you are doing is not in any way shape or form solving the problem. I’m guessing all that being done is removal of the post and a block on the poster. That is useless for this type of bot attack.

Please pls pls do what Goddatter has posted. Do a country block. It’s a pretty straightforward action. It’s kinda viewed as a nuclear option but in the years Ive been on this site never ever a post out of that country. Really if you are in Bali you are on vacay ensconced in a Villa, or having monkeys stealing your sunglasses Ubud or diving in Gili…. you are so not on this forum. Get a webmaster to block Indo, all its islands.

If don’t get ahead of this, there will be zero traffic to this site from real folks. AC is part of AP4M, theres a lot of financial info held there that eventually will have an overlap for bot entry.
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Your firewall should be able to block by IP, either very specifically, or by a range of nearby addresses. Likewise, a country-wide or regional block should be possible. How much valuable traffic do you get from the area/country spamming the site? Block them.

Likewise your forum posting software and settings should have the function to block, or send to admin approval, posts with certain keywords you can define or alter as needed. The spam posts I’ve been seeing certainly have repeated the same set of words.

(Yes, I was a longtime webmaster and web developer.)
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Aging Care, if you haven't figured out by now how very annoying and irritating it is to go on this forum EVERY morning and see nothing but the spam posts then you're not paying very close attention.
Like I had mentioned before, perhaps it best that you guys just shut this forum down for a few days until you can get this nonsense figured out once and for all.
Because if something isn't done soon you will be losing a lot of your daily contributors and it will be all your fault.
I don't think that it's just me that is losing their patience with this ongoing issue.
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Geaton,
It's amazing any sites at all function at all, isn't it, given all of this.
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