F**king Spammers [UPDATE]

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 09/21/2017 at 16:50 • Filed to: kinja help

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For years, I’ve been collecting my Aviation History posts at the tag !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Overnight, the tag got spammed. Is there any way to get these posts scrubbed?

UPDATE: I reported this via email, and just got a reply from Steve Climaco. They were able to delete the offending posts. If you come across any more, please report it and they’ll take care of it.

TheHondaBro > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 10:10

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We should start using the tag “Spammers Suck” so that when the spammers start to use it they’ll get so totally owned.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 10:12

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The dumb thing about that is that I’m guessing not many people searching for ‘Planelopnik History’ are going to the UAE any time soon.

On that note, I would think using an escort in Dubai is a highly risky proposition? I wonder if they would give you the death penalty or maybe just chop off your dick...

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 10:17

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That suuucks. Flag them all, of course, and hope they get taken down.

Can we even set up new Kinja blogs anymore? If so, now’s the time to finally do that and share them all to the new blog (and publish there going forward).

One (crappy) solution might be to go add the tag PLANEOPNIK to all the old posts and use that going forward... Like I said, crappy.

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 09/21/2017 at 10:27

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No idea. I have only been propositioned in Copenhagen.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/21/2017 at 10:28

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No, you can’t set up Kinja blogs, and I missed out when I had the chance. This is just the collection via the tag. So really, anybody could post to it, and a couple of people have, but it’s always been aviation-related. I really need to get my stuff onto my own blog.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 10:33

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Hopefully it’s a fairly easy copy-paste job (per post...) to Wordpress or whatever you end up going with. Actually, what I would do as a minimum for now is just save the complete webpage for each post on a folder on your computer. That way, you have all of your words and the pictures you used, so if OPPO ever disappears, you have a way to put all your work up somewhere else.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 10:34

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That was my fault. Sorry. Thought you’d be interested in some of those.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/21/2017 at 10:36

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I have dabbled with this in the past, but it’s such an enormous undertaking that I haven’t really dived into it. I want to save the text in a form that it can be edited. And then I have to figure out what platform to use, learn how to use it, etc. One of these days.....

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 09/21/2017 at 10:36

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Well, I am married....

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 10:42

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Maybe you could pay one of your kids $x/hour to do it for you? Problem with that is they could see your whole posting and commenting history - ha! Could just save them all out to Word docs. Mechanical Turk? https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 10:43

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TIL... https://www.quora.com/Is-Amazon-Mechanical-Turk-offensive-to-Turks

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/21/2017 at 10:46

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Historical references only work if people know the history, and nobody knows history any more (I had never heard of it). Nah, I’ll do the work myself. But I’d rather be writing than learning how to use blogging software and pasting content.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/21/2017 at 10:48

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Looks like you can flag a reply but not a post. I emailed Kinja.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 11:12

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Exactly. Did the ad not say “cheap”? See, I got your back.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 11:36

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Well, we can hope that if OPPO or Kinja ever does go away, we’d at least get a little advance notice of it.

That said... https://petapixel.com/2017/07/01/photobucket-just-broke-billions-photos-embedded-web/

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 09/21/2017 at 11:40

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Ha ha. The reactions. It always amazes me how people think everything on the Internet should be free.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 11:49

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Photobucket probably could have handled it better (longer lead time, phasing in higher pricing over time), but yeah.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 11:50

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I always try to remind myself: if you’re getting something for free, what’s mostly likely for sale is you .

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 16:54

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If you need help setting up a Wordpress blog to the point that it’s ready for you to post to, that’s not too big a deal for me. If you want some help with that! But I agree it would still be a large undertaking at that point, getting everything properly copied over from your posts here.

ttyymmnn > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 09/21/2017 at 17:01

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I think my biggest headache right now is organization. It’s been pretty easy to write for a certain date range and then post on a specific date, but I’m not sure how that will work with a blog. I suppose I could use the same sort of format, and post alongside my Oppo posts, which I plan on continuing. I don’t expect many hits outside of Kinja, but I would like to have everything off-site in the unlikely event that something happens to Oppo.

Right now, I’m taking my posts from 2016 and reworking them, mostly with simple edits for clarity, updated information, or new events (like Cassini-Huygens, which just happened last week). Once I get to March 2018 I will have completed the cycle and may be able to stop editing old posts, unless to add recent events.

I don’t want to impose, but if you have the time I would appreciate the help. I’m a complete noob at this. I need to find a host and a domain and then settle on a format. I would like it to look as much like my work on Oppo as possible, since I’ve settled on a format possible with Kinja and I really like it. If it would be easier to chat via email, you can reach me at my screen name @ gmail.

Thanks again.

McMike > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 17:10

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I collect them.

http://oppositelock.kinja.com/started-following-you-1772442377

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 17:15

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Email the mods and ask? Email the (butt)head of Jalopnik and ask? Surely, your work warrants it. (Internet problems keeping me from making appropriate responses to other stuff you’ve posted today.)

user314 > ttyymmnn 09/21/2017 at 17:16

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Not free, but finding out the pics I’ve got posted all over are suddenly useless unless I fork over $400 (after I’ve already been paying $79 annually) doesn’t exactly engender goodwill.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/21/2017 at 17:16

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I emailed the Kinja help desk and they took care of it. It’s all gone now.

ttyymmnn > user314 09/21/2017 at 17:17

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No, it doesn’t. Especially after years of compiling a library.