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The Spam Has to Stop!
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:00 pm
by lutherjw
Hey everyone
As I'm sure you have noticed, there has been a drastic increase in the amount of spam postings recently.
I for one am getting fed up with it. It
needs to stop.
If anyone has any ideas, feel free to post them.
My idea:
Would it be possible to have admin/moderator approval enabled? This would be like where an admin or moderator would have to look at a new member's first post, and then decide to let them stay or to delete their account.
I know this would be more work, but in the end it would make the forums a better place.
Joel
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:47 pm
by rpbluesman
I think that something should be done to stop the spamming..perhaps an "enter a code" thingy to stop bots from joining. As for othr members posting spam messages, we just have to watch out for them, as I don;t know how much we could really keep an eye on a ton of new members
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:02 pm
by admin
Would it be possible to have admin/moderator approval enabled?
It would not stop these bots
The new version of the message board will be online soon
Fanmail
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:16 pm
by Volante
Yep I look forward to that update
Another forum I'm a member of will upgrade to that one soon aswell. Let's hope the spam bots disappear or decrease then.
Also, maybe the spam bots find this place because of ads and things like that? I don't know, but this other forum I'm a member of only get about 3-5 spam topics per month.
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:02 pm
by jdp3577
could it be set up so you would have to respond to an email before you get membership?
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:13 am
by James
My Fanmail.Biz email address got over 200 spam messages within a week!!!
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:21 pm
by Dallas
My fanmail email gets over 14 spam messages a day....
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:30 pm
by rpbluesman
I get rougly 20 per day...give or take a few
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 2:53 pm
by admin
james wrote:My Fanmail.Biz email address got over 200 spam messages within a week!!!
Report them as spam
I receive over 100 spam messages per day, they are all automatically redirected to the spam folder.
Fanmail
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:07 pm
by TheMailman
rpbluesman wrote:I think that something should be done to stop the spamming..perhaps an "enter a code" thingy to stop bots from joining. As for othr members posting spam messages, we just have to watch out for them, as I don;t know how much we could really keep an eye on a ton of new members
I really think an 'enter code' would work. Many places have them to avoid spammers
