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We needs some moderators here to approve the first post. In the last two daysi have seen a couple of ads that have nothing to do with astronomy

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I agree. Those non-related topics are a problem.

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I won’t be around long if it continues

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Report them if you see them .

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Let me rephrase that . At the bottom of the post , there’s 3 dots . Tap and a flag pops up with some other choices . Tap the flags and there’s more choices . I always flag these as spam . They get taken down and I haven’t seen any for a few weeks until today .

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@Starrancher just did 5 more.

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Yeah there are a lot of unnecessary ones

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I think most of the registered members on this forum are such ones.

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Looks like they are coming in waves . I flagged three or four yesterday .

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I am not long for this site if it persists

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Well , I thought I’d try to give the new forum a helping hand to get it going again . It was the best Astronomy forum on the web before it got discontinued around 2010 . It no doubt takes some time to get a new one off the ground . But it certainly isn’t looking that great . I wonder if a lot of the old timers that were on back then have dropped out of the hobby or just moved on to greener pastures . I’d have thought that there would be more content from veterans of amateur astronomy that once graced the pages by now ….

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I suspect a lot of members moved over to Cloudy Nights. I’ve been there for a few years but decided to give this site a try since I’m already a subscriber anyway. The potential is here but it needs abut more policing. As word gets around they will come.

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I am on CN, but it is just a war zone. Especially if you have a different opinion. I am glad i stumbled onto TSS

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Well hopefully it gets going and becomes what it once was in its former glory . It was pretty disappointing when the OG was shut down .

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Ok, every day we end up flagging posts that are obviously spam of one variation or another. The forum needs to step up and prevent these from even getting started.

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Right . A couple questions about telescopes should be enough to screen them .

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