And just as important, why is their number of views non-zero??
I do like spam , it’s joy in a can..Amir likes Wagyu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagyu
Thomas likes SPAM: View attachment 13084It is a British thing.
Takes resources to do that... I help moderate another forum and spam is an eternal problem. We have a team to help moderate; perhaps here The King and His Loyal Moderator may need to consider recruiting Additional Peons to help serve as spam-rousters.
For that matter just giving the ability to delete posts to a few more (very carefully chosen!) folk might help.
No, we don't use wordpress.I'm guessing the ASR site uses the WordPress framework?
Perhaps @amirm or @Thomas savage can confirm.
We did #1 in another forum and it made no difference. I think all of these are human spammers hired for nothing in other countries. So no amount of Q/A will deter them.So, a couple of suggestions from here:
1) use the CAPTCHA option requiring new users answer a simple arithmetic question, or
2) use the Honeypot feature (invisible widget to lure spambots into completing it), or
3) have new-user submissions go to human moderators for approval/admission
They are trying to "hide" their messaging to some extent as to not get deleted. But the format and style remains the same, trying to promote something -- I don't read them carefully enough to know.Just a curiosity question: The spam I have seen here is so far off topic as to be useless (ie there is no political message, no sales pitch, no request for action, etc.), what do the spammers get out of it? Just bragging rights or the pleasure of disrupting the lives of others?
Totally agree..No, we don't use wordpress.
We did #1 in another forum and it made no difference. I think all of these are human spammers hired for nothing in other countries. So no amount of Q/A will deter them.
As to other options, this is a pendulum between user inconvenience and allowing spammers in. I rather have the work and have an easy registration than reducing spam a bit.
That's why I suggested it just for thread creation, and just for 'new' users, if 'new' users were ones less than 24 hours old I'm not sure how much none spam would get flagged.Another forum does something like that but it takes a lot of human monitoring to check each and every new post from all new users. I can't recall which it was, but for one a new user's first five posts had to be read and released by a moderator before you were given permission to post freely.