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Crabby Power Groupie
Joined: 26 Feb 2024 Posts: 350 Location: Belfast
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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I'm assuming it's the same for everybody.....l got through this evening and it's gone to my head....lm posting willy nilly!
Seriously though it is weird and l think it's been lurking for some time because l encountered it quite a while ago and assumed it was just me that was affected but now it's becoming a real problem. |
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Kermit! Sub-Deity

Joined: 08 Aug 2017 Posts: 1237 Location: Islington N1
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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Alex Robertson wrote: | The post is definitely there….its about 60 posts down pst all the Announcements and Stickies |
I do find it annoying that Announcements, Stickies & Polls all seem to stay on the Forum's pages forever but any topic put up for discussion is taken down after 6 months if nobody has looked at it.
People put a lot of effort into topics either setting them up or by joining in the conversation. The vote for the fans favourite Sparks songs, being just one for example. I think that was much more valid to stay listed. It's obviously automatically done but some human intervention wouldbe quite nice sometimes. _________________ The fan formally known as kermit
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Crabby Power Groupie
Joined: 26 Feb 2024 Posts: 350 Location: Belfast
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2025 8:56 am Post subject: |
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I know I'll regret this as soon as l post it but,for me at least the problem with the forum seems to have gone....whoever sorted it, thanks! And if it hasn't been sorted l will hang my head in shame....... |
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Toughest Girl In Town Sparks Guru

Joined: 15 Feb 2022 Posts: 5120
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2025 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Looks ok to me too, I didn't get the error message for almost 2 days now. |
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waterloosunset Sparks Guru

Joined: 17 Nov 2021 Posts: 2208 Location: amongst the New England trees
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2025 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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@Kermit, I didn’t know that they take down old discussions. Did they take down the album by album discussion? People spent a lot of time and effort on that. _________________ better drop the requirement that everything be great |
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Crabby Power Groupie
Joined: 26 Feb 2024 Posts: 350 Location: Belfast
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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Yikes..... I suspect the 'critical error ' thing is attempting a comeback... I've had it twice today... 😱 |
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Kermit! Sub-Deity

Joined: 08 Aug 2017 Posts: 1237 Location: Islington N1
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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waterloosunset wrote: | @Kermit, I didn’t know that they take down old discussions. Did they take down the album by album discussion? People spent a lot of time and effort on that. |
Looks like it has gone, so yes waterloosunset. The Forum is the only place where fans can join in on topics & games. I choose not to involve myself on social media basically because I've seen how toxic things can develop on there & I've really got better things to do with my time. I enjoy contributing to the Forum itself for one example so when that input disappears it's very disheartening, especially when there are polls going back to 2002 still viewable.
I don't think there's much we can do about it. It's up to the moderators of the website to change the settings I guess. _________________ The fan formally known as kermit
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miss sparks Sparks Guru

Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 23496 Location: England
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:35 am Post subject: |
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We got a Newbie posting spam on the Sparks Live forum
Spam now removed.
Last edited by miss sparks on Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:52 am; edited 1 time in total |
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miss sparks Sparks Guru

Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 23496 Location: England
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Crabby wrote: | Yikes..... I suspect the 'critical error ' thing is attempting a comeback... I've had it twice today... 😱 |
Yes i had the critical error message today. Things are still not right with the forum. |
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waterloosunset Sparks Guru

Joined: 17 Nov 2021 Posts: 2208 Location: amongst the New England trees
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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miss sparks wrote: | We got a Newbie posting spam on the Sparks Live forum |
I just wrote them a not nice private message. I was going to make it a lot not nicer (being from Brooklyn before it was cool and all) but was afraid that it wouldn't go through. is it just a bot? _________________ better drop the requirement that everything be great |
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Alex Robertson Sparks Guru
Joined: 11 Jan 2002 Posts: 42866 Location: Crawley,West Sussex
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:39 am Post subject: |
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I think interacting with spam posts might be what causes the debug error thing, I’d say ignore until they are removed! |
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Alex Robertson Sparks Guru
Joined: 11 Jan 2002 Posts: 42866 Location: Crawley,West Sussex
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 11:11 am Post subject: |
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Looks like they’re gone already…I’ve noticed some of these spambots ( are they still called that?) quote an actual poster’s response but change a word or two into a “link”…I don’t click on them but I wonder what happens if you do, I’m too cowardly to even try🤣 |
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Spyke Sparks Guru

Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 2437 Location: Brum, UK
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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I've been able to get into the Forum ok for the week or so since it went down for a couple of days. I'd noticed the new posts by those spambots, and didn't make the connection between them and the site going down, although I really don't know how these things work! _________________ "but we can hear what others can't hear..." |
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Crabby Power Groupie
Joined: 26 Feb 2024 Posts: 350 Location: Belfast
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:29 am Post subject: |
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Oooops.....as Elton John very nearly said.....the glitch is back,
I've had it twice this morning.....(l think it's trying to tell me that I'm spending too long on this Forum and l need to get a life) |
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Toughest Girl In Town Sparks Guru

Joined: 15 Feb 2022 Posts: 5120
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:37 am Post subject: |
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Crabby wrote: | (l think it's trying to tell me that I'm spending too long on this Forum and l need to get a life) |
Then I have a question: is a life without Sparks fans worth living?  |
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Crabby Power Groupie
Joined: 26 Feb 2024 Posts: 350 Location: Belfast
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2025 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Of course it's not worth living!! 😂 |
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