Yeah it's too bad that most the members of TP forum look suspicious. I think they lack Moderators, the whole forum just look really cluttered and messy with all the random topics.

Interesting conversation going here!

I can tell you that regular maintenance on our forum is conducted once per week pruning unverified members, posts and more. You can contact Maverick on the TP forum for full details but on my end all looks good!

As far as Jack Slater is concerned I have checked into this for you all and he was NOT banned. Just to confirm. Maybe he is just gone MIA.

Let me know if you guys have further thoughts/questions!

Nikki

(06-01-2011 2:48 AM)Deja Vu Wrote:  Yeah it's too bad that most the members of TP forum look suspicious. I think they lack Moderators, the whole forum just look really cluttered and messy with all the random topics.

To be honest .. they have a lot a work to do !

Pago

(06-05-2011 4:47 PM)Pagodeiro Wrote:  To be honest .. they have a lot a work to do !

Pago

I'm no expert Pago and as for what I can see I don't see much spam or anything that is not pheromone information. Is there anything you can show me specifically? I'll surely pass it along!

Ty

Nikki,

Here's an example from your forum:

Quote:Would you let a visitor know they are True Pheromones?
I have a kid brother who loves coming to my house and trying out everything there is. If I get an item from the TruePheromone product line, I think I will have to let him, and other visitors of what they entail.

http://www.truepheromones.com/forum/show...hp?tid=377

There are also a suspiciously high number of new members who have the exact same post count. They all joined at about the same time. They are usually the ones who are involved in nonsense posts like the one quoted above.

Magnolia, Jasmine, MayaHere, Tricia, Johny35, skay, isvipy, cali, and Tina, all joined your forum on 6-6-11 and they all have EXACTLY the same post counts.

http://www.truepheromones.com/forum/memb...=20&page=3

What's going on with the TP forum?

(06-05-2011 5:02 PM)TruePheromones (Rep) Wrote:  I'm no expert Pago and as for what I can see I don't see much spam or anything that is not pheromone information. Is there anything you can show me specifically? I'll surely pass it along!

Ty

Hi Pago,

I have passed this information along and now that you point it out it does seem strange... Although not spam just very strange...

They all are responding to each other threads as well.

They're not negative or anything so I don't think that this is a competitor...

Or is it????

I think more people would suspect astroturfing...

It seems like something that boots are doing before they start spamming..but new generation of boots..."human emulator"

It is very strange. The topics seem to be pulled from the androtics forum. For example, in the womens forum, the posts about love at first sight, animals and pheromones, tired of cute and pheromones for business. Similar topics were recently posted over at the androtics forum before being posted in the TP forum. I feel like I see questions being asked at the androtics forum and then they show up right after at the TP forum.

(06-05-2011 4:44 PM)TruePheromones (Rep) Wrote:  Interesting conversation going here!

I can tell you that regular maintenance on our forum is conducted once per week pruning unverified members, posts and more. You can contact Maverick on the TP forum for full details but on my end all looks good!

As far as Jack Slater is concerned I have checked into this for you all and he was NOT banned. Just to confirm. Maybe he is just gone MIA.

Let me know if you guys have further thoughts/questions!

Nikki

Now I'm not trying to question anyone's ability here, but there's quite a bit of legitimate looking spam going on. Forum bots are becoming far more sophisticated, and so if you took a quick look right now to check on spam, I'm willing to bet you won't find any.

If you opened a thread and examined it carefully you'll find posts like these:
http://www.truepheromones.com/forum/show...37#pid1737
Archived version:
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/5093/...estion.png

Normal, right?

Don't you think it's a little strange that the poster is looking to make women comfortable around them, when their name is "Karen"? Forgive me-- I'm completly accepting of lebian and gay lifestyles, but I don't see very many same gender phero users (in comparison to the straight phero users). I feel that if they were looking to attract the same gender, they would make specific note of it.

Second, why would they be asking which company sells the best pheromones? It's such a general question! There is no best! I buy my favorite products from both True and Love-Scent for the exact reason that no one company can satisfy all my needs. If she wanted to ask a question like that, it probably would be better asked here on PheroTruth.

Lastly, and this is the dead giveaway, look at the URLs in the signature! My God, if there's anything I learned from moderating, it's that this is such a tell tale sign of spam! The links will take you places to buy "shoes" "cell phones" "designer clothes" and sometimes porn sites.. But not a single one of them are legit.

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I did notice you guys had application for moderator positions and as directed, I contacted Justin directly about it. He said there was high potential with it due to my posting quality. At some point he said he would check in with me after a week to see what the final verdict was. I kept posting as normal for a few weeks later. After that I became busier with finals and because I was left hanging, I peaced out.

Another reason I ended up leaving was I was sick of seeing JackSlater go around, bash heads with people, boost HIS OWN reputation score (!), and on occasion DESTROY reputation scores of other people! JohnnyHard and dbot were two that were included in this, and when he did it to dbot, it really pissed me off. It wasn't just one or two points like with JohnnyHard, it was 6-10 negative points.

Go look at JackSlater's reputation score, and now look at dbot's reputation score. Notice how a user named "pheromones" has given Jack most of his reputation? Do you also notice how that same user and JackSlater gave dbot negative reputation points? Maverick (after it was brought to his attention by myself) removed the first round of negative points (which was a TON of negative rep.. Ask Maverick, he should remember), but he didn't remove these last few. I can't see any IP addresses on that forum, but go ahead and look up JackSlater and pheromones' IP addresses (note: pheromones = 0 posts, 1 hour online time. Strange, yes?). Unless he's using a proxy, I guarantee you they are the same.

I came back a few days ago and was really surprised to see the state of the forums. Believe me when I say spam will be the death of any forum... If not dealt with properly. After I left the previous forum I moderated at, it turned to crap at the hands of spam.

The reason I left was simply this: the forum owner neglected upgrading the forums and would not install anti-spam mods. This meant I (along with maybe ONE other active moderator) had to delete 50+ spam posts/threads a day.

I'm not bitter or anything, but I'm writing all this to make a point. I love True Pheromone products and will sing their praises... But you got something that really needs to be addressed.

Regards,
txi0m

Edit: added some extra links.