Sorry this is off-topic, but some help is needed over in the Custom Search forum, and as that forum's administrators seem unable to assist, I'm not sure who I should contact next.
Spammers attack that forum almost daily. In recent months I've submitted many (probably hundreds) of messages via the forum's spam- reporting mechanism, and I have also contacted a Custom Search manager. But there seems to be little if any active moderation in place to discourage persistent spammers. Another user complained and I replied here: https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/d/msg/customsearch/M46SYirEOe8/PkPz9JJylsAJ If one small group of persistent spammers can so easily cause significant disruption, the problem will only worsen if other spammers eventually join the fray. For the time being, I'll continue to submit reports through that forum's spam-reporting mechanism; although this seems to do little good, other than helping to partly 'hide' existing spam messages in the forum's web interface. But that does no good for email subscribers. After months of training the filter still seems ineffective in preventing additional spam. Presumably there may be a need for manual intervention and active moderation? Since there is not much ongoing spam here in this forum, I wonder: do this forum's administrators employ better strategies (such as proactive moderation) to prevent and discourage spam? If the Custom Search forum's administrators cannot solve the problem, can anything more be done? Who should be contacted next? Would Google's anti-spam specialists perhaps be able to help? Thanks -- omr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] To view this message on the web, visit http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en_US For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en?hl=en
