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Old 03-28-2007, 08:21 PM
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What has happened to yakfishing.com. Used to be one of the premier yak sites in SoCal................nothing but garbage now Too bad, it had its glory days, and that was just a few years ago. Nothing but XXX threads and other .
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Old 03-28-2007, 09:30 PM
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Saw it happen to another yak site I use to visit. Freakin' spammers!!!

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Old 03-28-2007, 10:09 PM
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Needle,
Yakfishing used to be one of my favorites also. I was on it when Mark Hunter ran it before it was sold to Allen from Allen's Kayaks. It's pretty sad, but I had to shut down one of the manufacturers message boards a few weeks ago because it had literally over thousands of bogus posts and registered members. Most of the posts/links were like the ones you're describing.

We get it here in different areas, but I get most of it before most people see it. When it gets really bad, I'll shut the forum down for a week or so and let the spiders from the spam bots see the forum is off, then it stops for quite awhile. Sometimes when I get the spam PM's or users complain to me about getting them, I'll disable the PM feature for a bit, then it also stops. Of course, turning the forum on and off isn't good for it by any means, but I would need another moderator to be sure the dirt would be swept away when it got dirty. Take Care and talk to you soon,
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Old 04-10-2007, 10:25 PM
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***Update***
Just received an email from Yak Fishing. Looks like the site has been cleaned up.

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Old 04-10-2007, 10:35 PM
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Hey Perry. Was the one you shut down the Cobra board?
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Jerry,
Yes it was, and it's ashame. With as many kayakers and kayak anglers there are in SoCal, it could have rocked. But without someone taking care of it, it ended up being a bullseye on a dartboard for spammers

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