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Painters-Online Team

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We would like to say a huge congratulations to Steve Stewart for being selected as our winner for the 'Paint like Turner' art competition. Your piece blew us away!  Check out Steve's winning entry  Thank you to all those who entered and for your patience with the judging process. Best wishes, The Painters Online Team
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Carol .

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Congratulations, Steve.

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Lewis Cooper

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I'm sure our moderators are aware of this...the above post, and similar ones on other posts, having nothing to do with art (according to google translate)...and should be  deleted.

Alan Bickley

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 No problem, thanks Lew… I haven’t seen any others today but we’re all ever vigilant! Just spotted the others, thanks!

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I’ve just removed three out of the moderators list , both the same as we have had recently and I have removed four in the past two days from the same source I believe.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Had a few yesterday - they came, I saw them, they went....   Always quite satisfying to spot something and weed it out before anyone reports it.  A moment of conscience though - there was a very long post in one of the middle-eastern scripts; a rather beautiful one, although it could have said just about anything - I can't distinguish Urdu from Pushtu, Hindi from Farsi, and certainly couldn't understand it; however, I deleted it because this is an English language website - very few of us would have understood the post, and at that length it was plainly a copy and paste job.  But - was I right to remove it if I didn't understand it? I don't know; but I did, and in general I would if I saw another example; but possibly wouldn't if it were a European language I understood, or semi-understood (I don't speak Spanish, and hardly any Italian, but a bit of basic Latin helps).  Actually - if it were another language, I'd probably either translate it or remove it .... but still: these are among the issues which moderators face.  Save us the dilemma, and just post in English..... 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Oh, and back to the point - congratulations to Steve Stewart.  

Norrette Moore

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I removed one such.  I was the fact that it picked an old thread for the first post, one often picked by previous scammers, which settled my mind on it.

Tessa Gwynne

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I find it so irritating when someone, usually a first time poster, latches on to a discussion from months or even years ago! If someone genuine posts comments in another language or script and this is deleted, it’s up to them to come back in something we can understand.  Grrr, and I’ll go back in my corner now! Thanks moderators once again. 🙏👏🏼