Kingston
Well-known member
Is something being done to the assault of spam behind the scenes already? I'm sure everyone is tired of pressing "report to moderator" and the mods are themselves equally tired of manually deleting the crap.
Some script or whatever the spammers are doing is seriously breaching in and many good solutions were presented here:
http://www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=42228.0
my favourites:
1. Not allowed to post ANY weblinks until maybe 10 posts. A simple REGEXP filter would do.
2. Mandatory introduction thread. You are not allowed to post ANYTHING at all until you have posted an introduction of yourself in an appropriate thread.
3. Security question for registering. Not captcha but maybe a simple ohs law (or similar) equation on the topic of the forum that randomizes itself.
Could these be implemented on the forum ASAP? the first two should be quite trivial at least.
And to spammers: F*ck off and die!
[edit]
whoops. I posted in the lab by accident. should be in brewery, sorry.
Some script or whatever the spammers are doing is seriously breaching in and many good solutions were presented here:
http://www.groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=42228.0
my favourites:
1. Not allowed to post ANY weblinks until maybe 10 posts. A simple REGEXP filter would do.
2. Mandatory introduction thread. You are not allowed to post ANYTHING at all until you have posted an introduction of yourself in an appropriate thread.
3. Security question for registering. Not captcha but maybe a simple ohs law (or similar) equation on the topic of the forum that randomizes itself.
Could these be implemented on the forum ASAP? the first two should be quite trivial at least.
And to spammers: F*ck off and die!
[edit]
whoops. I posted in the lab by accident. should be in brewery, sorry.