The Spammers are back Ted!
The Spammers are back Ted!
Isn't there any way to get rid of the scum? Forum seems to have had more than its share of rather nasty spam postings recently.
"There's a lot of dignity in that, isn't there? Going out like a raspberry ripple."
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Unfortunately I'm limited in what I can actually do to limit posters. Especially if I don't want to limit new legitimate users of this forum.
However, I might be on to a mod which disallows new users from posting for 1 day (which would eliminate the attacks we see lately)...
Marcus
However, I might be on to a mod which disallows new users from posting for 1 day (which would eliminate the attacks we see lately)...
Marcus
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Though I don't confuse the DC board with a democray I must say that I am against it. I think it will discuourage users from coming back. As far as I can see users in here are rather bright and adult so no one will really click the links provided by the spammers. They are annoying but not dangerous.
People often register for a forum because they either have a specific question which needs to be solved or they found something interesting where they want to have a say. So it would be better to allow them to post right away. That's what I think.
People often register for a forum because they either have a specific question which needs to be solved or they found something interesting where they want to have a say. So it would be better to allow them to post right away. That's what I think.
More bloody spammers this weekend. They seem to have it in for this site for some reason. I notice Yog-sothoth.com doesn't seem to get half as much trouble, despite being a lot bigger. Do they do something different?
"There's a lot of dignity in that, isn't there? Going out like a raspberry ripple."
If I remember right, you have to be a registered member to post there and they have a graphic security code to become a registered member.
I've been having this same kind of issue over at the Dark America forum. I finally sat down the other day and went through every post and purged all of the posted spam. Haven't had another spammer hit in a couple days now.
I know that there is a security mod on the phpBB community forums that isn't that hard to drop in.
Another option is to either require admin approval of a registrant before they are allowed to post or to have a dedicated mod with delete permissions that can make the time to trawl the forums everyday and clean out the junk.
I've been having this same kind of issue over at the Dark America forum. I finally sat down the other day and went through every post and purged all of the posted spam. Haven't had another spammer hit in a couple days now.
I know that there is a security mod on the phpBB community forums that isn't that hard to drop in.
Another option is to either require admin approval of a registrant before they are allowed to post or to have a dedicated mod with delete permissions that can make the time to trawl the forums everyday and clean out the junk.
"All right, Phase 6, Bad guys go first..."
