Yea Amen to that, I did admin a good sized site for years. Now the spam bots can make a mess of things quick.But to be fair, I also fully sympathize with the folks running this site- it can be time consuming when you don't have a staff of ten people or more.
Yepit turns a trip to your favorite forum in to a job.
You should get a pop-up dialog box asking about the issue, where you type a quick description (spam, unrepentant believer, etc) and then click to Report Post again.I hit the "report" button when I see them. Is that adequate?
Yes that a great help thank you .I hit the "report" button when I see them. Is that adequate?
We have superb spam detection tools on the site. Every day we get member registrations that are automatically or with my approval are rejected. I say for every valid registration, we probably have 2 to 3 spam ones!There's ways to prevent this. I used to admin a very large audio forum and this kind of thing wouldn't have ever seen the light of day. But to be fair, I also fully sympathize with the folks running this site- it can be time consuming when you don't have a staff of ten people or more.
Makes me all nostalgic for the early days when no one was here and the spam we had was bitter WBF folks taking the piss out of us ( a royal us, mostly ( exclusively) just you )We have superb spam detection tools on the site. Every day we get member registrations that are automatically or with my approval are rejected. I say for every valid registration, we probably have 2 to 3 spam ones!
The system relies on collective knowledge of all forum owners to distribute the knowledge about these spammers. These latest attacks seem to be using new identities and automated posting. And we seem to be getting hit early on before their information is getting archived.
Strangely it does not. There is a plug-in that allows it though so I might install that.Is it possible with the forum software to limit thread creation rights for new users?
I deleted them all, would be helpful in someone dropped me a message letting me know when these things happen or reports the post which most of you do. Makes it much easier to sort out.