Sponsored Post threads
 

What's up with all these ads and supposedly sponsored posts?
I see one was eliminated and another popped up?

Any chance you can screen shot what you're referring to? I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary, but I use a mobile version of the site.

So we may not be seeing the same things.

-Jake

I think this is right...….

Barnes I'm not seeing anything like that either. Maybe you have some malware in your system?

Just ran both the anti virus software and the malware program and nothing was found. This is the only site of 20 or more that this pops up. Similar to the one that was removed the other day by an administrator.

I have the same thing - have had for several weeks now.... notice it says sponsors post at the right of the screen

now when I go back to the home screen the post will be gone!

Now the "sponsored post" is showing its made by feedkick

And another...………

I've been getting them also.

Me too, have been for a long time.

So why can't I, and possibly other mods see these?

OT are you able to "report" these posts like you do with other spam posts?

I'll send this to admin so they can look at it...
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I looked under the membership for "feedkick" and there was no such member listed. I didn't look for "Viking", but suspect there's no member with that name either. Way to many Google ads on the sides and always one on the top too. I'm no expert, but can they unfriend mods so that they can't see posts?

No, mods should be able to see anything posted on the forum. But I'm not seeing those types of posts or ads or whatever they

-Jake

They have been a major pain all sign by the same @

I assumed it was just another sneaky way for the site to make money. The ads look like posts so you click on them. Money is made by number of clicks an ad gets. I get one of those fake posts/ads on every sub-forum page I visit on hunting.net, always second from the top.

Same here and each time I come back, there's a different ad.

I have it and its not just under the black powder threads. I have no way that I can see to delete it either. Hopefully an admin will get it taken care of

I'm thinking admin knows about them already ($$$)

What's incredibly frustrating is that I spend my time (hours each month and it used to be allot more) deleting spam posts and profiles. So much time that we've had good moderators step down in part due to the time commitment that it takes.

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Then there's this going on.

-Jake

They are all clearly identified as sponsored posts, i.e. ads, i.e. the things that keep this site free and up and running :)

Unfriending a mod would simply take them off your friend list but it wouldn't prevent them from seeing anything. The same way with blocking (you can't block mods). As Jake said, mods are supposed to see everything. So if mods haven't seen them, it's because we haven't been looking. In fairness, when most of us mods log in, we're either following topics we've previously posted in or read or we're scanning the new posts search feature for obvious spam. Although we should be reading the entire page of topics, many times we get sidetracked on individual topics (some have a lot of pages) and simply run out of time and thus don't scan the entire page of new posts/topics.

This looks like a different kind of advertising that is new. In the past, HNI had ads on the right side of the webpages or banners at the top. Any individual topics like these were started by advertisers who had paid to advertise as members and did so in separate forums restricted to their products.

Hopefully all of this helps some.

I do not see them. Possibly because I use a mobile format. Never have. And when B.A. posted about it I went to those sections and still do not see them.

​Not because I'm not looking. They simply aren't there.

Some people are saying they see them almost on every section of the site.

Other people like gm54 don't see them at all and explained why. But his posts were deleted.

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-Jake

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Maybe if nobody open them they would get tired of wasting their time and ours. Lee

I see them and the mods have no control over these adds and admin is aware of this.

If you click one it re-directs you to a URL starting with: "jadserve.postrelease.com" which re-directs you to the "sponsored post"

It WILL NOT take you into a topic like an actual post on the forum.

Admin has done us a solid and the sponsored post threads should be gone for logged in members!

Thanks to Ibobi.

-Jake
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My pleasure (I don't have to see them now either!).