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I've re-opened the thread to illicit further conversation should anyone wish to do so. @sunkacola please feel free to close the thread if we're beating a dead horse :)

I can't understand getting so upset and angry about something so trivial. Hope you change your mind @cookiebaker, you are a valued member of the community.

Please don't let yourself get frustrated by it. Simply wait for moderator approval; we're usually pretty quick about it.

The issue with the phrase "google" was specifically put in by me for a very good reason. We used to get a lot of people trying to circumvent the request "not to post non-authoritative" by simply telling people in their post to "google such and such product".

Yeah, things work similarly here. It's not so much registration spam that gets through, as second/third post spam. All in all, everything is a pretty smooth sailing ship here thanks to all the hard work from Xenforo, and the different anti-spam systems in place.

There's a few different systems being used as "anti-spam" systems. For the most part they work really well, but like all systems, there's flaws. I'd remove those systems but they actually catch 100's of spam messages per month and saves a lot of time with moderation, so, all in all, the pain...

"when things get tough, the tough get going" For comic relief, "no pain, no gain"

@johnsalmon thanks for the insight. If we can get a little more input we can update the message to be more up to date and accurate.

On recommendation of some members I've created this pharmaceutical section and hope to build up the above "sticky" to include the most important and general information about treating Fibromyalgia with medications. Both the positives and negatives of such courses of treatment. If anyone has...

Treating Fibromyalgia with Medications: When it comes to treating Fibromyalgia (FM), pharmaceuticals are often the first line of defense. This is due to the fact that the condition is both difficult to diagnose and difficult to treat effectively. While pharmaceuticals can be an effective way to...

I'm on a Samsung phone and it has a pretty good feature when the phone rings it highlights the call in red with a warning that it's likely spam. Makes it easy to ignore the calls. You want to be careful these days because some of the phishing calls and scam calls can be pretty intricate...

If you're referring to your email, not possible. Not unless you've published your email address somewhere. Any information submitted to your user profile that isn't specifically public is not visible or accessible by anyone, let alone any crawler bots.

In defense of crawling bots like Google and SEMrush, both of which follow robot.txt exclusions and honor a website owners wishes; they can be considered "good bots" or good crawlers. Bad robots, or bad bots, don't follow the wishes of a site owner and ignore robot.txt as well as spoof their...

I've added to our robots.txt User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / Look at robots.txt at bottom of file

No need to apologize for your English. It sounds like you have been through a lot and it is understandable that you are feeling frustrated. It is important that you keep track of all your symptoms and bring them up to any doctor you visit. It could be helpful to keep a detailed journal of your...