Gunsite forum opening spam / phishing page

[Branden88]

The site is extremely busy, and my inbox fills up within two days with general questions and similar queries.

Many people prefer to read and absorb information without posting publicly, which explains the high number of private messages I receive.

A significant portion of the user base communicates in South African vernacular, and they’re often hesitant to post. They worry about being ridiculed for saying things like “bullet heads” or “my gun jammed,” or being criticized over minor grammar issues—like using a colon instead of a semicolon—or being told this is a “Queen’s English” platform.

A lot of users also struggle to read posts and extract the valuable information being shared. Instead, they focus on tearing the poster apart, often undermining their dignity just to appear knowledgeable.

At any given time, we frequently have 14,000 or more active users on the site.

Over the past 10–15 years, forums in general have experienced a similar decline in engagement. Younger users tend to prefer platforms that offer faster responses, more interaction, less rigid language expectations, and greater inclusivity across different demographics.

One of the greatest threat on this site possibly bigger than the SPAM / phishing is the con artists that were operating here and running their scam behind large post counts extracting information from the site and then running scams where many long standing decent upstanding members got taken for a ride. When these low life individuals were called out for their deceitful behaviour , ofcourse we going to be called names and a stink made because they lost a major income stream .


Anyway ...

Thank you Kuben, and all the other Moderators that take time out of their own personal lives to keep things alive and working.

[TStone]

I believe that very few members appreciate the amount of time KK20 spend answering questions from me, members of Gunsite and probably other moderators. It is a rather thankless job with no regular hours.

[KK20]

One of the greatest threat on this site possibly bigger than the SPAM / phishing is the con artists that were operating here and running their scam behind large post counts extracting information from the site and then running scams where many long standing decent upstanding members got taken for a ride. When these low life individuals were called out for their deceitful behaviour , ofcourse we going to be called names and a stink made because they lost a major income stream .

I will not downplay the issue of spam, but to expand a bit on the issues we face: some high-post-count members wait for an opportunity to pounce on our members in the US, Canada, and the EU.
Many of these foreign members do drop private messages, and we end up getting to know these members a little more than their online profiles show.

Over time, trust is established, and these foreign members forwarded PMs from these low-life members here that paint a picture of being in a civil war, facing starvation, and having to take care of orphans from a parish, etc., and they actually ask for money or accessories for guns.
Others will start up sham posts to illicit a response from certain solid members, then take over via PMs and slowly soften them up to extract things from them.

Keep in mind that most members of GS are solid people with genuinely kind hearts, and therefore, GS has been ripe for the picking.

People are free to PM or call to chat to find out, instead of hammering out presumptions, allegations, and perpetuating untruths, but I suppose it is a thrill to post a rant and act up instead of taking a minute to assess and think rationally about the issue.

^ The above is to clarify a few matters brought up on other platforms.

Claiming or wishing the site dead is coming only from naysayers who will tend to piss their panties about anything and everything.

We have many Foreign members as I stated above and some of them are moderators on their own forums abroad.
We share notes and they are not without issues either.

WRT to the trend of forums becoming slower and the onboarding of new members being slower are in keeping across the board in favour of newer platforms that the younger generation seem to prefer. In fact many things discussed and posted here on GS will be referenced on WhatsApp groups and discussions.

Those that start threads and keep threads rolling of negative content are not the same guys starting and contributing to threads that adhere to the core of what the site is about.

I like to thank all those who are genuinely wanting to help and please feel free to touch base with any of the Mods and we assess , plan and execute . or at the very least you will no longer be in the dark about matters .

[KK20]

I believe that very few members appreciate the amount of time KK20 spend answering questions from me, members of Gunsite and probably other moderators. It is a rather thankless job with no regular hours.

So do you TStone who troubleshoots for many members all the time.

And so to as all the mods here do.

[ady]

I really enjoy the forum and a big thank you needs to go to the mods for keeping things tidy around here. I stumbled onto it years ago while looking for information and ended up staying.

The only thing that frustrates me about GS is how often the site is down.

I need my daily fix

[Tango Sierra]

For what it's worth as an ex pat, I find the forum useful in obviously not only exchanging ideas on a subject we're all invested in but to also help keep abreast of legislative developments in the old country.

[Kiselhuis]

Thank you but fortunately it is not the issue.

Feel free to PM.

Howdy KK20, tried to pm you but your mailbox is full.

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[GAZZAMCK]

I believe that very few members appreciate the amount of time KK20 spend answering questions from me, members of Gunsite and probably other moderators. It is a rather thankless job with no regular hours.

Do you perhaps not need more moderators?