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MonDicannedia Sun Aug 24, 2008 07:57am

Tired of spam
 
Is this gonna end someday??

tjones1 Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:53am

Our mods are pretty good about it. Obviously they can't be on stand by 24/7. However, they do their best to keep it off here. Lately, spam traffic has been very heavy. I'm sure it will go down - hang in there! :)

Mark Padgett Mon Aug 25, 2008 04:43pm

I hope that being tired of spam never ends. Is that what you meant?

yawetag Tue Aug 26, 2008 01:54am

What I can't figure out is how the accounts are getting past the Image Verification. With that, it seems the accounts are coming from real people actually taking time to sign up.

I am also sick of it. While I can learn to ignore the threads started, it's hard to ignore replies in threads.

Larks Thu Aug 28, 2008 08:01am

It may also have something to do with the fact this board is about 25 updates and several versions behind. I run a V Bull board and the current version is 3.73. Looks like this board is sitting on ver 3.54

I'm gonna guess that many security flaws have been addressed since 3.54

mick Thu Aug 28, 2008 01:22pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Larks
It may also have something to do with the fact this board is about 25 updates and several versions behind. I run a V Bull board and the current version is 3.73. Looks like this board is sitting on ver 3.54

I'm gonna guess that many security flaws have been addressed since 3.54

Thanks, Larks! :)

jdmara Thu Aug 28, 2008 04:56pm

Obviously a lot of spammers are posting porn...If we disable this ability for a poster to post images until they have X posts (I would suggest at least 50, perhaps 100), we wouldn't have a porn problem I would imagine

-Josh

JugglingReferee Thu Aug 28, 2008 07:14pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdmara
Obviously a lot of spammers are posting porn...If we disable this ability for a poster to post images until they have X posts (I would suggest at least 50, perhaps 100), we wouldn't have a porn problem I would imagine

-Josh

Great idea. +1

jdmara Fri Aug 29, 2008 02:03pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee
Great idea. +1

It's difficult to procrastinate at work if I'm in fear of porn showing up on my screen. The government doesn't approve of porn viewing at work, darn conservatives lol :rolleyes:

-Josh

refnrev Sun Aug 31, 2008 09:05pm

I appreciate the hard work the moderators do and they do a great job. But I do have to admit I am sick of the porn popping up in the forum. I wish there was a way to filter it out.

Scrapper1 Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:49am

Quote:

Originally Posted by refnrev
I appreciate the hard work the moderators do and they do a great job. But I do have to admit I am sick of the porn popping up in the forum.

I bet the mods are too. :)

mick Mon Sep 01, 2008 01:06pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scrapper1
I bet the mods are too. :)

Yeah, I am at the Pontius Pilote stage.
Perhaps the administrators are working on that this weekend.

JugglingReferee Wed Sep 03, 2008 06:03am

As a regular here, and a forums admin myself (at a different URL), I would support all posts requiring a CAPTCHA phrase to be entered.

It would suck for usability, but I bet that all spam would be gone. In the forum that I administer, there is no spam whatsoever, and this is how we do it. Seriously.

Scrapper1 Thu Sep 04, 2008 08:35am

Holy mother of pearl. :( 25 new threads over the last 2 days, just in the General forum. Plus some new threads, and at least one porn post within a real thread, in the basketball forum.

mick Thu Sep 04, 2008 09:27am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scrapper1
Holy mother of pearl. :( 25 new threads over the last 2 days, just in the General forum. Plus some new threads, and at least one porn post within a real thread, in the basketball forum.

Uh, no..., that was since 10:46 a.m. yesterday. ;)

jdmara Thu Sep 04, 2008 06:43pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by mick
Uh, no..., that was since 10:46 a.m. yesterday. ;)

Mick-

Any chance of restricting the posting of pictures by members under a certain number of posts?

-Josh

mick Fri Sep 05, 2008 08:21am

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdmara
Mick-

Any chance of restricting the posting of pictures by members under a certain number of posts?

-Josh

I dunno, Josh,
That is Owner driven.


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