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There is a recent rash of spam postings all coming from the same person/people. Last week I deleted over 100 spam postings but can't keep up with all of them.

If you see any spam I'd appreciate it if you could PM me, or a moderator, and we can delete it. It's really getting out of hand.

I have to agree with you on this...Recently their has been a lot of trash on the site.

I agree. To any new member who may be reading this, if you see spam, you can click on the ! In the bottom right hand side to report it.

There were over 60 by the same member yesterday. I tried to remove as many as I could at the time. Thankfully when I got back on today someone had finished the job for me. We're doing our best guys and appreciate the help.

If you see a spam topic, report it to the mods by clicking on the red ! on the post, and if possible, actually PM one of us (TM, mod etc - TMs can deal with spam, but we can't see the report logs, unfortunately). Any TM reading, if you remove a post remember to report the user to Ozzman for immediate removal!

osiris wrote:There were over 60 by the same member yesterday. I tried to remove as many as I could at the time. Thankfully when I got back on today someone had finished the job for me. We're doing our best guys and appreciate the help.

If you see a spam topic, report it to the mods by clicking on the red ! on the post, and if possible, actually PM one of us (TM, mod etc - TMs can deal with spam, but we can't see the report logs, unfortunately). Any TM reading, if you remove a post remember to report the user to Ozzman for immediate removal!

Dana and I got the rest. What is Admin doing to prevent this?

What does the admin ever do about it? The weirdest thing about this is phpBB already has some innate spam protection in the form of CAPTCHA, but it's apparently turned off on this forum. I also think we're running on an outdated version of phpBB, which would have a lot of holes for spammers to get around.

dfreely wrote:What does the admin ever do about it? The weirdest thing about this is phpBB already has some innate spam protection in the form of CAPTCHA, but it's apparently turned off on this forum. I also think we're running on an outdated version of phpBB, which would have a lot of holes for spammers to get around.

I'm not sure even if a captcha would help in this case as they appear to be posted by real people. Of course, it couldn't hurt!!

The spam I've seen (including a barrage right now..) are spambot-generated, I don't think I've seen a whole lot of human-generated ones. But yeah, either way setting up defenses doesn't hurt.

dfreely wrote:The spam I've seen (including a barrage right now..) are spambot-generated, I don't think I've seen a whole lot of human-generated ones. But yeah, either way setting up defenses doesn't hurt.

It looks as though the accounts themselves could be human generated though, but the posts are by a bot. I'm not 100% on that but Admin's silly number question thing is always correct on them.

3 days ago there 91 topics posted by someone. Next day 60. Today I came here in the morning and spammer was just online and posting many more but I had to go to school so didn't have time to delete those 10 that were already posted, I only reported the user.
It takes at least 1 hour to delete all those spam topics as there are often about 100 posted and I believe this should be solved differently as banning members' IP's and deleting topics doesn't help and it is only a waste of time.