It may just be me but?????

Crocy, those posts are not "people posting for supplements."  They are spammers, scammers etc., definitely not sought by LVA management.   At first it was one or two a week, now they are invading many (but not all??) boards daily.  Per the LVA staff a few questions ago, it takes a lot of doing to delete one, let alone many a day.

Tom Smith and Duke of Darby asked "What can be done to increase postings?"  (Not the spammer posts.)  I gave an observation/suggestion, probably not feasible, having to do with the new Forum design and why folks may not be driven to post more often.  The only other suggestions?--complaints about the spammers.

I get a lot from QoD, VEGAS NEWS, the polls (good poster give and take on those), as well as poster responses to GWAE blogs (Dancer, Jean Scott).   Kitchen Sink is a wasteland of hateful name calling, no well reasoned debating.  And to think I voted to keep that board.  Yikes!  But the other forums are good, there waiting.  More Trip Reports would be great.  Links at the top of the page give me quick access to hotel/dining/show, etc. information.  Very handy. 

Sorry to be so wordy.

IMHO...this forum was gone completely for quite some time and during that time period people migrated to other places.  (Other forums, Facebook groups, etc)

I even made an announcement on some forums when the LVA forum came back but lots of people said "Oh well... I am over here now...think I will stay"

I have run a small forum since 2008 and it is MUCH slower than it used to be and I can see from my own experience that many of my former members spend most of their time in Vegas FB groups now. 

Activity begets activity unfortunately.

People look at a board and say "Oh there is not much activity here, I guess I won't bother posting either."

Sad but that is just the way it is.

I don't know the answer to attracting new members.  I know of some forums that offered meets with free drinks in fancy places.  (I am not rich enough to do this) Ha.

I think most people understand how forums work, there is a main page of topics and you click on a certain topics if you want to read more.

Banning the spammers does nothing, they are back the next day with a new name.

There must be software that helps with it but I don't know much about it.

Just ignore them until they are taken down.

It is funny, though, that the old LVA forum never had those spammers.  At least not on the members-only side.

Spammers/scammers are definitely out of hand.  Went to check the forums today and there at least 6, so I quit looking.  That is part of the reason I did not renew.  I was never a member just for the Member Rewards.  I think the forums were a good way to exchange helpful information.  Then they become way to political.

On a few of my forums,there is a small triangle at the base of all posts and threads. 

  That triangle allows posters to REPORT any forum violations:

Bad language,flaming and inappropiate subjects or responses.

  Please let our forum members help the staff to weed out these spammers that clog this forum.~~~~~~∇∇

Strange, I never remember seeing these spammers on the old web site - what is going on?

The forums with more traffic=more spammers.

 Let the members report this crap.We can be the spam police,easily.

robertwinn1310

https://healthprouds.com/healthy-keto-nation/

May 26, 2019 3:40am 

So true.  I never remember seeing these spammers on any other web site. 

Spam reporting on celicasupra.com site:

https:/https://www.celicasupra.com/forums/showthread.php?106954-SPAM-Reporting/www.celicasupra.com/forums/showthread.php?106954-SPAM-Reporting

See the little triangle on bottom left?

Spammers get reported quicky by its members.

We do have members that are forum moderators and they delete the spam as quickly as possible. These spammers are hitting us hard and there's no way we can get their posts deleted instantly. We are currently working on a solution to block them but in the meantime we have to manually find, delete, and block.