Bullshit temu everywhere

For what it's worth there are still forum systems being actively developed. A lot of the old boards are defunct though, yeah.

Long Ranger wrote:

My bet is that in whole or in part, the forum software is old and full of cobwebs. The people who wrote it are long gone -- it was written before REI bought this place. No one wants to touch it all that much because they'll just break it further. 

onX core business isn't in providing an online community through a forum, it's providing mapping data. It's not buried or a secret agenda: https://www.onxmaps.com/about

None of the other *project sister sites have a forum.

Here’s a reply I received from Zander a few days ago. I’m sure he is fine with me posting it here: 

Folks have been hard at work taking those posts down, disabling the accounts, and working on bolstering the spam/bot filter to prevent these from continuing. Hoping to have it sorted by the end of the week.

Terry E wrote:

Here’s a reply I received from Zander a few days ago. I’m sure he is fine with me posting it here: 

Folks have been hard at work taking those posts down, disabling the accounts, and working on bolstering the spam/bot filter to prevent these from continuing. Hoping to have it sorted by the end of the week.

Right -- I don't see anything that says, "fixing the forum" (let alone improve the forum). I read, "clean up". If they have a problem with account creation that's something different entirely and I'm sure doesn't help that there was > 1 way to create an MP account recently: the old way and the new way.

Maaaybe the old way still functions for unknown to us reasons and it's being exploited.

Maaaybe we all have two "accounts" in MP: one for onX-y kinds of stuff and one shadow one for deprecated MP'ing things, like the forum (and internally they gotta keep them synced). 

These weirdo things are just what happens when you have an old piece of software that's been around for a while that probably was written initially using a low standard of code quality, then bought a few times and everyone forgets that details of how shit works, so you start putting bandages on things. You don't think it's a problem until some 13 year old with more time on their hands figures out something weird because making money on Temu referrals is a step up in his standard of living.

The solution may be to throw the whole thing out, or put it read-only forever and not have a forum. And as I said, onX ain't in the "make forums" business. They've got the route data, that's what they want. 

Please forgive my ignorance, I'm a genXer that doesn't understand how the internet works. How does someone make $ on temu/bitget referrals. Do these codes actually work? Do they make $ per post or when someone uses the code?

Marc801 C wrote:

Y'all are assuming that the posts are coming from one user - you're ignoring how easy it is to create multiple accounts. That needs to be addressed as well.

Not ignoring.   Plans come bit by bit.

I like Matt S’s tiered single-user approach. Sounds not too hard to implement.

And, yeah, I bet there are a lot of cobwebs under the hood here.

Jeremy L wrote:

Please forgive my ignorance, I'm a genXer that doesn't understand how the internet works. How does someone make $ on temu/bitget referrals. Do these codes actually work? Do they make $ per post or when someone uses the code?

Two reasons, one benign the other malicious:

Benign - when the link is clicked, the person posting the link gets a (very tiny) referral fee, which may increase if they actually buy something.

Malicious - the "discount code" is the bait; the hook is when the victim clicks on the link which attempts to install malware of some sort.

Thanks for the explanation. I never understood the point of spam & those flyers from random local businesses in my physical mailbox. It goes from my mailbox straight to recycling. Waste of paper, ink & my time.

So what you're saying is those single ladies in my area don't want to flirt with me... that explains a lot...

I just laughed when I saw all the spam today.  :)

Don't jinx it... Don't jinx it...

Might be safe now. 

High 5 to whoever figured out how to stop those BS ads. I know every job is a thankless job, especially when you're working for a nameless, faceless internet mob. But thanks for putting up with our criticism & suggestions.

What Jeremy said… thumbs up. 

The spammers have learned that they can post in languages other than English and get through the filter.

Flagging a post a spam still does not remove the post or hid it.