That makes three of us. I have been unsuccessful getting a response from site administrators through Personal Messenger too.
When I clicked on the first darkweblinks post a few months back, I recall my browser acting strange and my Kaspersky flashed a warning! I immediately disconnected from the internet, updated my Kaspersky, and scanned. Luckily, no harm done.
That, is what I was trying to report to Admin, but no response in months.
I too am very concerned for the future of these forums if such activity is not stopped.
Interestingly, I had the same concerns for a different engineering forum about two years ago. My concern got so great, my partner and I started http://www.simpliengineering.com. SimpliEngineering is run on state-of-the-art, open-source, Discourse software that is kept evergreen by a community of Discourse programmers. It is a well run engineering forum that does not tolerate off topic advertising and spammers, and we have an arsenal of tools to enforce that. So, if you are tired of spammers, or just curious, come try out SimpliEngineering and see if you like it. PM me when you get there and let me know what you think.
Edited by latexman, 06 November 2020 - 11:18 AM.