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ACAS message board still under attack by automated web-bot auto-taggin "abuse" so that Yahoo removes

Since Yahoo has enacted a threshold for automatic removal of messages when they get a certain number of thumbs-down or abuse reports, the previous annoying web-bot attacking the ACAS message board has been promoted to a message-board killer.

This web-bot is capable of tagging every message up to 1,000 times, with either abuse or thumbs-down (using unique IDs). Since Yahoo put the auto-remove thresholds in, Yahoo has removed all new messages since the new year AND the web-bot has continued back in history.

At this time, Yahoo has removed all messages back to Oct-2012.

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    NMBNMB shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Please fix the ACAS message board. New posting are deleted within hours of being posted.  ·   · 
    NMBNMB shared a merged idea: Yahoo! Please stop auto-removing messages based on number of thumbs-down/abuse reports!  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: The messages keep disappearing for the ACAS message board. There is some talk about a "web-bot" that is doing this.  ·   · 
    AnonymousAnonymous shared a merged idea: ACAS message board is broken. All new posts dissapear after a short time.  ·   · 
    Nick TorkosNick Torkos shared a merged idea: Do not remove messages based on thumbs down. Users and bots abuse this making some boards unusable. Let users create a filter per ticker.  ·   · 
    Anonymous shared a merged idea: Oh Yahoo engineers : Please fix the ACAS Message Bd. it does not function.  ·   · 
    NMBNMB shared a merged idea: I hate new message board format! ACAS forum messages being removed for no reason.  ·   · 

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