Not sure what is going on, but the site keeps failing over the last couple of days. I have the server guys and my developer looking into it.
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In the past two days I have gotten emails asking about being requested to provide credit card info in order to register and also to make a post in the classifieds forums. PLEASE NOTE: In no instance will this site ask you for this sort of information. The only time any request for payment is made is if you choose to opt-in for a higher membership level, and that is done SOLELY through PayPal. Anything else is coming from a source other than this site. My guess is that this is coming through Google Adsense, but when I can get someone to send me a screen shot of this sort of request, I will know more.
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Responding to email notices you receive.
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In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.
Site failures - 06/09/2025
- Thread starter WebSlave
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I am glad to see it seems to be resolved for the moment.
It works now... until it doesn't. Logging out and in didn't help yesterday. Today is better.
Yeah, comes and goes. Not sure yet what the problem is. My developer has been working on it and said the site was being flooded with bots. But I don't believe that would (or should) cause a hard failure on the site. Slowness, yes, but to have it just fall flat on it's face should not be a result of too much bogus traffic. IMHO, of course.
I've whacked quite a few fake/fraudulent registration accounts in the past few days. Usually it's 2-3 a week but it seems to have ramped up. Either I touched a nerve or it's just your site's turn to be targeted.