Increase of spammers lately

[Excessum]

Originally Posted by Tyrien

Maybe even more, if not about the same.

Hmm... well i guess it could serve as a motivation for newcomers to do a little research before posting. And screen out those who have nothing serious to ask/say... though i do remember stumbling across several of these kind of forums and i just went to a different place, since i needed the help only on my particular question (which was nowhere covered in the existing threads) and was not willing to engage in-to post count boosting (spamming)... so yeah... it's just another of those rarely found sticks that has two ends.

[TheLastFortnight]

Just to make a review, these names are in my ignore (spammers) list:

AmbeRzz
Blackguy
God
Greed
Hate
Lust
ShinjukuEkis
AdultFuck
marin
yooon
smarties

Watch out for these kinds of names...

[Slykaz1]

Originally Posted by Excessum

Hmm... well i guess it could serve as a motivation for newcomers to do a little research before posting. And screen out those who have nothing serious to ask/say... though i do remember stumbling across several of these kind of forums and i just went to a different place, since i needed the help only on my particular question (which was nowhere covered in the existing threads) and was not willing to engage in-to post count boosting (spamming)... so yeah... it's just another of those rarely found sticks that has two ends.

I agree....most newcomers start a new thread without even bothering to research if their question can be answered in some thread that had already been started. There should be a post count limit for starting a thread.

[Odin]

Originally Posted by kingAndres

The IP-Ban is a good suggestion and it would stop them for probably.good ideas 2

An IP ban is a useless tactic. It is not hard at all to acquire a new IP address within a few minutes with most internet connections, because they are dynamically assigned.

[ThuMpeR]

Originally Posted by TheLastFortnight

Just to make a review, these names are in my ignore (spammers) list:

AmbeRzz
Blackguy
God
Greed
Hate
Lust
ShinjukuEkis
AdultFuck (this one is new, but rather suspicious...)

Watch out for these kinds of names...

Thanks for the heads-up. I gotta add those to my ignore list

[Kajitsu]

0_0 Wow... this thread...

Originally Posted by Slykaz1

I agree....most newcomers start a new thread without even bothering to research if their question can be answered in some thread that had already been started. There should be a post count limit for starting a thread.

I agree about this. I was one of them, after all. ^_^; Maybe the search button should be bright red!

Yes, I was joking.

Originally Posted by Excessum

- You not only gave a suggestion, but already found out it's both weak spots straight away. 1 - What about the genuine users? I would have never been here, if i was told to wait for 24 hours, for instance. 2 - They can always make several accounts at once and then just use whenever they like to.

I was hoping people would post suggestions, but I mostly expected this thread to be ignored or deleted. The 24-hour wait would be tedious, but it might help slightly. I know I would be annoyed, but once that's over... we might have better members coming in.

Or maybe it was the worst idea I ever had. Still, you can't say it was worse than trying to recharge a battery when the power had gone out.

[EveV]

As annoying as it is.

Post delay would slow the spammers down.
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They need to take it off PM and put it on that instead.

[MissMisa]

A lot of spam is also from automated bots, posting the same thing over and over, and they usually have jiggy names. These could EASILY be stopped by implementing Captcha [those random letters and numbers] on Login. It takes a second to type and bots can't read it.

Originally Posted by Odin

An IP ban is a useless tactic. It is not hard at all to acquire a new IP address within a few minutes with most internet connections, because they are dynamically assigned.

It may work in some cases, but I reckon that most of the spammers who just post to be annoying [not advertising] are children, they will have access to computers all over the place, schools, libraries, friends houses and so on, so maybe in these instances it won't be so successful.


The recent problem hasn't been creating new topics though - it has been spamming on old ones.

[Nyororin]

This sort of talk has come up before - I suggested moderating the first few posts.

Check here; Introduce 'waiting period' before posting?

[TheLastFortnight]

I think the best solutions given until now are:

Make the new members wait 24 hours for their first post or thread.
Ban the spammers by IP.
Use reCAPTCHA on the log in.

Although, each one of them does not work well alone, they together may slow down and make the "work" of the spammers more difficult.
About make the members wait between post new threads, I think it will not work to stop the spam, because the spammers often post on already existing threads, rather than post a new one. It will only help to stop the newbie posters to write unnecessary threads, but it isn't the subject of this thread.

PS.: But all of this suggestions are useless if ShinjukuEki (he's too busy or lazy, like Excessum said) does not come online, so maybe a more active administrator should work too.