To prevent spammers from registering at the site, I will be the one to create new user accounts in the meantime. If you want to create a FilipinoWriter.com user account, send me an e-mail message at filipinowriter@gmail.com using the E-MAIL ADDRESS  you want to register your account with and the USERNAME you want to use.

Thanks! 

FilipinoWriter.com for the past few days has been experiencing problems. Our web host was already able to restore the site from a most recent backup with the issues now resolved. 

To address the issue as well  of spam and spam users registering -- which may or may not have something to do with our site's recent problems -- I changed the settings of the site so that registration now requires administrator approval.

Might also upgrade the site soon to a newer version of Drupal, the Content Management System (CMS) we are using.

Okay, let's give this a try. I have been reading past posts regarding the issue of posting class assignments in particular this thread, and I might have been a bit hasty in ruling not to allow class assignments in this site. To solve this problem, and this is on an experimental basis for now, to see if it's effective, I have a created a new content type 'class assignment'.

Update: Disregard this post and read my editorial How to Post Class Assignments.

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To all students posting works for the purpose of fulfilling their class requirement, kindly create instead a yahoogroup where your professor can check and view your assignments/works. FilipinoWriter.com is responsible for providing a pleasant experience to its members, and the site being inundated by similarly-titled works does not contribute to such an experience. In other words, no spamming please.

To the FW members who I assigned as admininstrators, please delete the spam and spammers once you see them. That's why I assigned you as admins so you won't have to wait for my instructions, or for me deleting them myself. :)

Just a few tips.

1. Before deleting the spammer, use the track tab to see what else the spammer has posted. Then once you see them in the track page go to each of the spam comments/posts and delete them one by one.

2. After deleting the spam posts then you can delete the spammer account.

Thanks a lot again for your help!

Best,

Things seemed to have settled here at the site, and there are less, if at all, spammers registering. I have restored the registration process to its original settings and I won't be approving registration anymore -- you will receive in the e-mail address you used to register the welcome message with the validation link, and once you click the validation link, you will gain authenticated status and will be able to post.

Hello FilipinoWriter.com Members!

Sorry I have been very busy lately so I wasn't able to monitor the site  and act post-haste on the spammers that have been disturbing this site. As initial remedies, I have:

Earlier today, Rom informed me of a prank made on this site by a user called '07 08 reb.' The user announced the 'passing away' of FilipinoWriter.com member Melanie Quilla, also known as Melay. At Rom's suggestion, I already unpublished said post.

The user logged on with IP Address 210.1.81.13. I looked it up and it's the dial-up service PLDT vibe.