When will this stop??

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Ok I’m a regular user of this website. I absolutly love this community and I try my best to give back the love. And one of the ways I do that is by going to the Q&A section to help people. BUT there is a BUNCH of advertising, and I’ve been noticing this for months. Once there even was advertising in Portuguese! (I know this cause I’m a native speaker of the language). I’m getting tired of this cause it’s stopping me (and all of us really) to help each other. This website is supposed to help people, not bombarding it with stupid advertising.

I’m sorry if I’m way too angry writing this, but I feel very frustrated cause this situation has been going for months.

Is there anything I can do to help with this situation?
And am I the only one frustrated with all this advertising?

Tags: asked September 15, 2015

8 Answers

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BlahTherapy is the target of an overseas predatory advertising firm. They have a full staff that is dedicated to creating fake emails to manually creating accounts to bypass automated spam filters. Literally the only way to stop them is by disabling member registration.
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Well, sadly I've noticed that too. Truthfully I'm not new here but I lost the email related to the account I had here so I just made a new one. This advertising thing has been ongoing for months, disrespectful pieces of trash disguised as living beings that do not even care about anything more than themselves, this kind of beings keep doing this.
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I agree. I signed up last night and noticed all the spam this morning. It's quite disappointing.Is this site dying?
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The spam is annoying, but as Jonathan said, the only to stop them is to disable membership registration, which in the long run is much more detrimental to the site than annoyance of the spam in the first place. If you find that a particular account is spamming incessantly/trolling, there is an option to flag that member, but on the whole, just try to ignore these idiots and enjoy the positive aspects of the site as much as possible.
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@supercooper No it's not dying at all, we have many users who come here everyday (I'm one of them), and we try to help each other. Trust me, Blahtherapy it's a very loving community. The bad thing till now is advertising (and once in a while a Troll). And @kariosusu I've been thinking about talking to the staff of the website, but I heard someone already did and they could do nothing, so I really don't know what to do. You said you had an old account, so do you know anything about it?
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Just ignore it dude, its only a problem if you let it get to you. I actually think its cool.
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@blackholehead not going to lie, I am quite shocked. I had no idea of that... that's seriously sad..
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I haven't been on here in a year. I just now came back today and noticed what looked like advertising, though I wasn't sure because it's been awhile.Hopefully it doesn't get worse. The only thing it can really do is annoy the dedicated members.