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[MADDOG]

Hi everyone,

At Fully Driven we are always looking for ways to make this site better for the entire community, and who better to guide that evolution than you—our members! If there’s a feature or forum section you’ve been wishing for, something that could work better, profile or access issues you are experiencing or even a small tweak that would improve your experience, we’d love to hear about it.

Whether it’s related to functionality, navigation, content organization, or anything else—no idea is too big or too small. Your feedback will help shape the future direction of the site and ensure it continues to reflect the needs of the people who use it most.

You can reply directly here or send your thoughts via Private Message if you prefer. We’ll be reviewing all suggestions and sharing updates as improvements are made.

Thanks for being part of this community and thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Michael AKA MADDOG
Forum Community Manager & Administrator

 

[Esther Knapicius]

we used to have a map of what areas everyone was living in. I miss that.

 

[roadrunner]

Every time I sign in, a banner drops down directly over top where I'm typing my user name and password, asking me if I want to sign up for some sort of notifications.

That's annoying AF

 

[Sheal]

we used to have a map of what areas everyone was living in. I miss that.

@Esther Knapicius if you click on the area under location in your avatar box that will bring up a map of the area for you.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

@Esther Knapicius if you click on the area under location in your avatar box that will bring up a map of the area for you.

is that the location of Everyone???

 

[Sheal]

is that the location of Everyone???

No @Esther Knapicius, you have to click on the individual locations in members own avatar boxes. Click on mine and you'll see roughly where I am.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Every time I sign in, a banner drops down directly over top where I'm typing my user name and password, asking me if I want to sign up for some sort of notifications.

That's annoying AF

Old people. Pfft. but yeah, more on topic ads that have manners is actually useful. I mean a 12 year old cannot conceive the idea that new information is useful. The 12 year olds are selling off topic because they have no life experience but are paid on commission percentages of sales. Throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what stick, basically. Get a AI account that costs 3 digits, and find purpose.

 

[roadrunner]

Every time I sign in, a banner drops down directly over top where I'm typing my user name and password, asking me if I want to sign up for some sort of notifications.

That's annoying AF

It happened again.

Some banner that wants me to sign up for email notifications so I can keep up with all the discussions on this site.

I was typing in my password and looked up and that banner prevented my password from showing up after I typed it all in.

 

[DirtMechanic]

I have a joke! Which came first the ad or the patronage?

 

[MADDOG]

It happened again.

Some banner that wants me to sign up for email notifications so I can keep up with all the discussions on this site.

I was typing in my password and looked up and that banner prevented my password from showing up after I typed it all in.

The next time that happens can you take a screenshot of the banner and post it here?

If it is what I think it is I may have a fix.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Is there something you can do about the ai accounts, i imagine they're pretty good at making them, but the ai running rampant is my biggest gripe, and most people don't seem to realize it

Like this one
zamirmewelldy

He's running around with a faulty prompt even

delightfulbags
Buulder
Reder

A lot of them give crazy street addresses for their location

I've heard @Meadowlark mention weird ip stuff, i don't know what's possible, because in the end everything can be circumvented because the casual user will not put up with the kind of verification you need to ensure they're real but maybe there's something you can do to make the site a less easy target

 

[MADDOG]

That user is not AI but it is a human or a bot in Lahore, Pakistan.

They have never come to my attention before, because they joined up in July of 2024 and I was not here at that time. I would ask all users here to report those that act in a similar way. In any event, in a few minutes I will have captured all the that user's IP addresses and ban them.

The IP stuff I can check if the so & so's are identified. Then I can take action. That's where reporting by the users on the forums becomes so helpful.

I am here several times a day proactively looking at new member profiles of who have just joined. I have caught a lot of spammers who got through by doing so and I ban them before they even post. However, this is a manual process.

We are working to improve the tools used to block spammers. We continue to add key words to a spam management tool and as we build the banned IP addresses it cuts down on the amount of spam we actually receive.

So, patience with this one is respectively requested. We are working on it.

Now, I am off to ban zamirmewelldy and check out the other three.

 

[MADDOG]

Whew....that user had 41 individual IP addresses logged here. They all had to be banned individually.

Now they have none and the user name has been banned.

So please. If you see these sorts of shenanigans going on, report the post. That will help identify these lurking spammers.

Thanks!

 

[MADDOG]

OK, @Martin Mikulcik, all four of the miscreants you identified have been booted and banned from the forum.

Thanks for bringing them to my attention!