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scary spam

Post by PLAIN JANE » Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:35 pm

Scary spam in place..
I don't have time to post links but there is scary spam in place..not hard to find as no replies. Some of it is graphic.
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Re: scary spam

Post by Milvus » Sat Aug 14, 2010 5:07 pm

I've removed them :)
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Re: scary spam

Post by thirstforromance » Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:25 pm

Feel free to pull me up if this has been considered before but,

Is it possible to require the first post by a new user to be allowed or disallowed by a moderator before it appears on the board?

We do this over on a web board I moderate and it allows us to weed out spammers and link farmers before they can bother other users

It does mean there's a slight delay before new users can see their posts appear though so perhaps that would be a consideration.

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Re: scary spam

Post by han » Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:20 pm

thanks for the suggestion - i've posted in the mods forum so that we can talk about if its something we could/would like to do :)
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Re: scary spam

Post by Eisa » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:51 am

I like that idea as well...it could just be the first post or so, and at least that weeds out the spammers...but that might be a little harder to implement when it's a support board...
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Re: scary spam

Post by kiwi33 » Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:19 am

Much of the spam comes from bots (software applications that run automated tasks over the Net).

Many of the mods (me included) regularly scan the member-list for spam-bots (the indicators are a random user-name and random profile details) and report the details to the admins, who can then deactivate those "members".

Most of the spammers are zapped in that way before they get a chance to post... :) .
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