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Re: spam...
at least they put it in the right place... Big shout out to all the mods that keep this place running =D>
Re: spam...
now they are puting spam in our original threads
thanks to the Mods and Admins for keeping the threads clean
thanks to the Mods and Admins for keeping the threads clean
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Re: spam...
They have been posting in existing threads as well but usually it's cleaned up before most people notice. It's not always possible. If anything, it's good to know that they go to all that effort for nothing
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Re: spam...
If you see something
Say something
Just report as most people have been, it will highlight it to us
Say something
Just report as most people have been, it will highlight it to us
Re: spam...
The spam has been getting worse lately. I wonder if it's possible to only allow postings after the requester has been authorised rather than allow postings as soon as someone registers or for new messages by newly registered persons, have them read by a mod before posting to ensure it is a legitimate post and not spam.
I know it makes more work for the mods but they have extra to do deleting spam anyhow.
I know it makes more work for the mods but they have extra to do deleting spam anyhow.
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Re: spam...
A couple of websites have the first post has to be premoderated. And that flushes out 99% of spammers. Let's say one new member a day, about half actually post anything, so about three to four new posts per week have to be pre-moderated versus quite a bit of spam that has to be deleted anyway. My 2c.
To stop displaying signatures, go to the User Control Panel > Board Preferences > Edit display options > Display signatures > No > Submit
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Try 62 today with another 5 hours to go... and one registering now.spartacus wrote:Let's say one new member a day
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Wow, that's a lot higher than I thought. I was just going by the member list for the last couple of weeks. There may be a slight flaw in my logic now.WPXZBP wrote:Try 62 today with another 5 hours to go... and one registering now.spartacus wrote:Let's say one new member a day
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A lot of the spammers get deleted before they get on the member list. The admins go through the list and pings many of them before they finalise registration, some get through that phase and get registered. Most of them get pinged before anything happens. A small minority get by unnoticed or when nobody is on the board and do post spam but it usually gets cleaned up quickly by the mods or admins.
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just this morning the first page was hit. announcement was hit to
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Re: spam...
Yep - nothing to worry about though. As soon as a mod or admin logs on and notices the spam, it gets deleted straight away.hold_3_n wrote:just this morning the first page was hit. announcement was hit to
Best thing to do is to simply ignore it and move on to the next thread. Click the "Report" button too if you like, and flag the post as spam.
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Re: spam...
my idea
for spam why not have a special question to answer and catchpa
for spam why not have a special question to answer and catchpa
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Re: spam...
Captcha? What's that? Does it look anything like the thing at the bottom of the WARSUG registration page?hold_3_n wrote:my idea
for spam why not have a special question to answer and catchpa
Having a special question to answer wouldn't stop what's happening from happening, as the people who are signing up are real human beings, not robots.
So even if you asked "what's the fifth word in the line underneath the page's title?" (i.e. "responsible"), then any human being who can read the English language and count to at least five would be able to answer it.
There's no "problem" here to solve. Spammers come, leave their mark, and we delete them. Everyone else continues on just as before.
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