Clean up our forum!

Post by **Robin Hood** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:24 am

Found one. The newest user's website is a bad-un. Would recommend deleting quickly.

Dan

ottoatm · Post by **ottoatm** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:40 am

I'm just curious... is this something that's always been around but has intensified recently? Or does it just seem that way because of this thread? I had no idea that these users were coming on and referencing thier @#*! sites... (shows how effective they were

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LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:45 am

ottoatm wrote:I'm just curious... is this something that's always been around but has intensified recently? Or does it just seem that way because of this thread? I had no idea that these users were coming on and referencing thier @#*! sites... (shows how effective they were )

good question. I am with you, had no clue as to they were even here. I mean I saw one actually spam the boards one time I think, but paid no mind I guess

Post by **Troy** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:50 am

ottoatm wrote:I'm just curious... is this something that's always been around but has intensified recently? Or does it just seem that way because of this thread? I had no idea that these users were coming on and referencing thier @#*! sites... (shows how effective they were )

It has always been an issue. It goes in spurts, as the software gets updated to prevent it, then the spammers come up with new ways to get around it.

We had a bunch of them, then saw it drop off when I banned the entire Hotmail domain.

We had a bunch of them, then say it drop off when we started requiring e-mail activation. This has been most effective at preventing the majority of the spammers from actually POSTING. The majority of them only clog up the member list.

This latest batch took a little longer to get to, because the upgrade to the latest version caused some unexpected problems. As in it prevented anyone from logging into the administration panel! It took a couple days to get this fixed.

The system now supports some visual confirmation when signing up new members, where you are shown a picture and have to type in the charachters you see. This will hopefully help with the spam bots. It requires some manual modifications to our templates though, so it will take a couple days for me to get it set up.

Troy

The Hordesman · Post by **The Hordesman** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:32 am

I think its time all admins and mods go a daily rutine checking out the links used by new users who hasnt posted yet.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:07 am

I think its time all admins and mods go a daily rutine checking out the links used by new users who hasnt posted yet.

I agree absoulutely, and I've said this before myslef.

We had a bunch of them, then say it drop off when we started requiring e-mail activation. This has been most effective at preventing the majority of the spammers from actually POSTING.

Truly genius!

The system now supports some visual confirmation when signing up new members, where you are shown a picture and have to type in the charachters you see. This will hopefully help with the spam bots.

Also, truly genius!

We all must be grateful to the admins for coming up with various ways to defend us against all these Internet saddos!

Found one. The newest user's website is a bad-un. Would recommend deleting quickly.

Dan

I can't see any new users with any websites at all...

Post by **Robin Hood** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:21 am

Well, out pure boredumb, I was checking the most recent users, when I can across an interesting site. The fourth most recent joiner (godly1), the third most recent (godly2) and the second most recent (FUBU) all have the same location: In front of my PC, as always. They were the same, the comma, the capitalization of the "pc", everything. Whats more, when I looked into each of the profiles for the three, it read, Occupation: Teenager, Interests: LEGO, PCs, warhammer, Perhaps FUBU tried logging on before, in two different accounts, and something happened?

Thought that maybe the admins should know about this, strangeness.

Dan

Post by **Robin Hood** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:53 pm

Oh, and our two newest members, softarmy and dicsh, both have questionable websites in their profiles.

Dan

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:01 pm

Robin Hood wrote:Oh, and our two newest members, softarmy and dicsh, both have questionable websites in their profiles.

Dan

Yes, they are advertisers. They should be deleted.

babyjawa · Post by **babyjawa** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:39 pm

Umm... softarmy the latest member is advertising to a website called softarmy. I think he should be deleted.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:45 pm

babyjawa wrote:Umm... softarmy the latest member is advertising to a website called softarmy. I think he should be deleted.

And the previous one, he is also advertising a website.