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    Posted: 22 Aug 2014 at 11:13pm
That is correct - whenever a post is reported it is emailed to all moderators for action.

I think approximately 50 spam posts from newly registered bots are deleted every day from this forum.
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After not finding an obvious "report spam" link, I discovered that it is possible to report spammers (of which we have more than a few lately!) by clicking on "Post Options", third of which is "report post".  Presumably this will call spam to the attention of mods or admin who can then (hopefully promptly) delete the post. 

At least it will make their job easier not to have to notice or LOCATE the spam but just to delete it.  I'm pretty sure they would appreciate it if all of us participated in this thankless and neverending task.  It might make the forum more useful to those of us who use it for legitimate purposes. 
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Finally there are some more moderators.
Dpenabill and I have tried our best in the past, but to delete/remove posts from every thread was frustrating since the same people would just return with new usernames. You cleaned it up and then few hours later it was the same, as if nothing had been done.

After a while it just got to the point where we thought, what's the point anymore? Hopefully you guys can do a better job!
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Congrats ski & Canuck25 :)
Applied: Mar xx,2011
In Process: Oct xx,2011
Transfer: Nov xx,2011
Test: Jan xx,2012
RQ Received: May xx,2012
RQ Submitted: June xx,2012
Office: Mississauga(Now with St.Clair)
Oath: July 17, 2014
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Thanks, Emad!
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Yes, the forum belongs to Colin Singer's firm. And yes, I am the administrator.
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Emad --

Glad the issue of a new moderator is resolved. I believe the two new moderators will work diligently and bring some balance to the group of active participants.

Can you please confirm that this Forum belongs to Lawyer Colin Singer's firm.  Also, did you always have Admin. privileges, or have you just been given those?  As we well know, dpenabill always claimed to be clueless about an admn/owner for this Forum: I found that odd, very odd.

Thanks, all!
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Also, the forum has been upgraded which should significantly lower the number of spam posts. 
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Congrats canuck and skii...please keep the good job coming.
 
We are in immigration forum and we are seeing junk email for passport and ids in the forum....this should not be allowed. This is crazyTongue
 
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I second SKI's sentiment and am happy to help carry the torch until such time - such good time - that this forum will no longer be needed and everyone gets their applications processed:)

Edited by canuck25 - 17 May 2014 at 1:01am
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