I've seen one or two where they've posted a reply in their own thread, so I think they can post just a post by itself, but have been aiming for threads. I imagine if they can't make threads, KA's right, they'll just post.

Maybe an audio captcha is the way to go then.

Maybe people should "support their sponsors" so they don't keep asking us to go to their stores?
They probably have like 6 kids or something and need to feed them.

"How was work today honey?"
" :( I tried selling our merchandise and told a thousand people a thousand times but no one was interested. Sorry kids, no food tonight"

You people are cruel!


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I didn't know we were sponsored by illegal NFL streams :lol:

are we still getting them?

Yes. But you haven't seen any today because I didn't get to sleep until 7am this morning. :lol:

Nice work :lol: :lol: :lol:

What a warrior.

We could always just leave them to post their guts out in AF. It would probably increase the quality of postage in there.

Yeah do this, though reading that Marty B and co have had to delete hundreds of these threads - Some might just spam 50 posts to enable it, though from my experience in other forums, it could certainly cut the spambot activity down.

There's also one of those jumbled word verification thingos, that people registering an account have to decipher and type out, before joining. I think that eliminates the accessibility for many spambots. It's been a long while since I registered my account, but there's also account activation via email, though I presume the FFT forums already do this (And that's probably no deterrent for spammers, right?).

Great idea, unless they post heaps of times before they spam, but i doubt they will go to the trouble, right?

I think this is the way to go. It's really the only option I can see that would stop them at the border so to speak. However, I suppose as they get smarter they'll stop using link names and start using originality to sign up. So you might end up blocking a suspect "FootballLover98" thinking it's a possible spambot, when in fact it's some poor bloke, born in 1998 who actually loves the game and wants to sign up to the forums for discussion on football.

The mod approval for new activations is not going to happen. Who is going to approve them? Mods who are volunteers and don't work for Haymarket? Not a chance.

TWG who works on countless other websites and is not exclusive to 442? Not a chance.

KA who has better things to do, like be the online editor for the website, so again not a chance.

Having a post limit before new threads can begin will not stop spambots, because they also post in existing threads as they have many times in the past.

CAPTCHA doesn't always work either, as I've noticed from experience.

We've mentioned a few other suggestions to TWG who will probably look into it today.

Verification by mods would take ages wouldnt it?

Not entirely sure how the process works, but I wouldn't think it would take too long. I mean, surely you wouldn't need to have someone doing online 24/7. How many new people do we get a week? 5? 10? If you run through the list once or twice a week it surely wouldn't take more then an hour or two to approve people.

That way you could probably stop spam multi's, too.

I guess there wouldnt be to many people joining ay.

So are you going to pay someone for that "hour or two" man hours a week?

Its not going to happen so no point in discussing it. Just because only 5 or 10 new users show up in the forums doesn't mean that 442 only gets 5-10 new users registering to the site.

Registration is for the entire site, not just the forums.

I regret mentioning the idea now :lol:

I still think a purely Audio captcha is the way to go.

I'd be happy to supervise a credit card verification system.

Name:
Card Number:
CVC:

And then test that credit card by depositing funds into my PayPal account.

No credit cards

:lol: I dunno about that, but what about using Pay Pal?

Great effort by the mods. Greatly Appreciated.

A Credit Card verification would be the death of this forum. Will existing users have to also complete this step? What if you don't have a Credit Card?

lol I was kidding. We'd lose a third or so of our users if that was implemented.

The fields I listed (plus expiry, which I forgot) are the details required to make online purchases. :twisted:

Okay.

CAPTCHA for the first 10 posts?
A limit on the amount of threads that be created every 24 hrs? (how many does Joffa start?)

I'll get my Nigerian cousin to set up this credit card thing. He's got experience in it. ;)

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I cannot believe the amount of people who thought you were serious #-o

Your wit is wasted here marty :lol: :lol:

You lot just missed a great opportunity to scam a bunch of dimwits. :lol:.

Maybe you could send out a verification code to new registers emails? Or a verification link unless this already happens, but i cant remember.