Just Google a league reddit 

I think this one:
https://www.reddit.com/r/442Australia/

You know it's bad when Google Chromes auto language translator picked this up as a website published in Thai

Bump past spam! Worst I've seen it. 

Muz any news on whether ol' mate can help knight some new mods to help Bowden clean the spam up?

Speaking of the forum, I've been around football forums for around 20 years now. The decline in discussions has been massive. I've seen a few big ones close down, such as SoccerPulse. I wonder if Twitter has made it worse. 

Hey Bowden - do you have the authority to delete those Thai betting users? Assuming you do, can you also automatically delete anything they post?

It would make sense for a forum to be able to simply get rid of a spam user and remove any reference they posted easier than it was for them to post it in the first place.

Just thinking...

Wonder if it is possoble to autodelete any post with thai characters

When we see blocked accounts their posts are gone too as far as I recall. I suspect that had to be done manually one by one maybe - surely it would not be hard to remove all trace of a bad user in a database sense...Delete all Where username or thread starter = <name>... sort of thing.

From a forum owners perspective linking that to the banned function would be a simple coding step.

Just putting ideas up if the owners are reading this.

I know of forums with this functionality. It's a very quick clean up. Everthing just disappears. But because it's such a nuclear option it's usually an admin permission, rather than regular mod (which usually takes time to escalate and action). My understanding is the admin went awol and no-one has replaced them.  

The only tools I have are all manual. Even with the spam posts I can only delete them one-by-one. 

Might be worth pinning the new forum for people to see 

Agree.

Total respect for your effort Bowden.

I think this forum would be fine with a bit more mod coverage. Modding is volunteer work and you can't expect Bowden to do it all. It just needs a regular who's happy to delete spam threads. 

Maybe I should have posted in Thai more ... perhaps some of my posts would have survived :P


Jokes....... 

I'd put my hand up, but I'm not sure there is anyone here with the power to add mods. 

Thai spam notwithstanding...

The forum is still working.

I click on "Report".   I feel like I'm helping.    :P     

bump past dodgy Thai betting arseholes

I reckon there's a direct correlation between forums declining and the rise of Facebook.

This is sheer speculation, but I find, talking to younger football fans, that many of them havent watched a full match in ages... Many gorge on mini matches and 3 min highlight packages or even as small as tiktok 30 second "clips" I was having age old, eternal "old man yelling at clouds" debate with a young cousin about old vs new players.

Apparently, according to this 17 year old Arsenal fan, Haaverts and Saka are miles ahead of Henry in every conceivable metric??? 3 hours later and 2 full replays of matches the comment was..... "the highlights only show the good bits". hahahahahahahahahahah