Thanks for the heads up Mus.

didn't click it...

Was there any porn?? 8-[

some guy that introduced himself in the 'introduce yourself here' thread was advertising online movies as well...

nogglekaty .....another spambot of sorts trying to flog off credit cards in the signature.

but that leaves us vunerable to the inevitible TWGF invasion!

Its a small network pipe, so 2 users can easily stave off the attacks. The Battle of Thermopylae proved this ;)

KA and The Web Guy are standing at the gates in roman armour and fighting off the bots by themselves....

Fixed. ;)

Edited by anth: 15/9/2010 10:59:09 PM

It's bizarre, because he always types out a different post but manages to work it in and word it differently every time. Fucking irritating.

I think he has found 500 different ways to say this and relate it to every topic. Pretty sure I saw this in the WFMB thread!

Seems like whatever you guys have done, it's working...

i like this idea too :-" :-"

the easiest way is to have people type in a code or answer a question when they sign up

don't wish to 'jinx' the forums or whatever but these spambots seem to have moved on... 8-[

More mods isn't solving the problem. Spam bots will still show up. Its about prevention not hiding the problem.

Much like the proposed internet filter. Filtering child pornography doesn't solve the issue of child abuse. It just puts your head in the sand and pretend the problem doesn't exist.

Or something which detects if someone's made the same post more than once and deletes them automatically.

Might save us from Paoktzi or that guy that always posts about local players and NQF

I like the more mods idea.

Good idea that from Mack I must say.

Good thing I've been away so I haven't seen much of this haha.

Simple question, disabling for 30mins-1hour, all good ideas.

Or simply, more mods :P

Smartasses.

Name the Hyundai A-League Team, Perth _____

shoestrade. :P

Haha74 on the loose now... Didn't we kill a Haha before?

Got one of them before he hit double figures. I'm getting better at this.

Storm?

wildcats!? :?

:p

Exactly.

Hah. I like that.

But seriously, the best and simplest way, that doesn't impact on real users nor cost admins time to activate an account, is a confirmation question like "Name the team. Perth _____"

Ba5tards!

Can you suspend all new members accounts and ask them to just send you an email to unlock it - hopefully make it harder for them. They would at least have to come up with different messages each time or you'd notice the sameness.

Perhaps a question on signup "Do you know a cheap shopping outlet" - anyone who answers yes gets canned.

They don't care. It'd be pretty much automated anyway.

Make it so new members can only post once they have posted more than 10 times - that'll stuff em. ;)

Seriously though, can you make No Spamming or Marketing a legal requirement/condition of membership that would give some legal avenue for billing them? Probably a waste of time given they can make up contact details and hotmail type accounts so easily - you'd never find the real person.

Would it be too difficult to set up provisional posting for new members (so all posts from newbies would sit somewhere for a couple of hours until released)? Would be annoying for genuine new members, but it would only have to be for a few posts to show their intentions.

lock and load people....lock and load!

Edited by joffa: 5/9/2010 09:35:27 PM