Increase of spammers lately

[Kajitsu]

I have an idea. It won't help stop this, but it might slow it down a little.

What if, after you confirm your account via email, you have to wait 24 hours before you can post? I know this is a forum, therefore you would want to post sooner, but if banned people make more accounts, the point of banning them is lost.

I'm saying this because I want people to enjoy this forum, not claw their eyes out after seeing some of its members' posts.

Yes, maybe this was not a good idea, in which case you can remove my thread. Just please listen to this.

Or you can IP-ban the offending members. I'm just unsure if you want to take a measure that extreme.

[kingAndres]

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

[SoundSev3n]

I may be new to the forums but would be more than happy to mod parts of the site to squash so much of the spam we've been getting. I'm at my computer at home, work and school and visit quite often all times of the day.

[TheLastFortnight]

Originally Posted by Kajitsu

I have an idea. It won't help stop this, but it might slow it down a little.

What if, after you confirm your account via email, you have to wait 24 hours before you can post? I know this is a forum, therefore you would want to post sooner, but if banned people make more accounts, the point of banning them is lost.

I'm saying this because I want people to enjoy this forum, not claw their eyes out after seeing some of its members' posts.

Yes, maybe this was not a good idea, in which case you can remove my thread. Just please listen to this.

Or you can IP-ban the offending members. I'm just unsure if you want to take a measure that extreme.

Yeah, it's a good idea, because IP ban will not work that great, because if the spammer gets several accounts, he may use different computers like the ones at a LAN, then it will be useless to ban them by IP. If they have to wait 24 hours to post every time they get a new account, they might give up, because only dumb people would continue this nonsense...

[Suki]

IP-band sounds like the most efficient solution but some forums don't have that option (not sure that's the case with JF). If all users had to wait 24 hours before being able to make their first post, most spammers wouldn't think it's worth the time and would just go away, I think Kajitsu's is a good idea.

[Kanji is not on msn at the moment and neither is CoolNard, so it might be a while before the user + all of his posts are deleted].

[SoundSev3n]

I think being dumb is sort of a strong attribute of these spammers... and if they're willing to put so much effort into spamming they will be able to adapt to the 24 hour limit. However, a post number requirement before allowing pictures in posts may help with the type of spam we're experiencing. They may be able to post bullshit but at least not obscene images.

Maybe a mix of the two ideas would help!

[Tyrien]

It's easier and less of a piss off to make it so that you need say... 25 posts to post a new topic.

[TheLastFortnight]

Originally Posted by Tyrien

It's easier and less of a piss off to make it so that you need say... 25 posts to post a new topic.

Post 25 times, just to write a new thread? It's nonsense, the problem isn't the threads, it's the posts, specially the ones with images, maybe the idea of limit the post of images from time to time may work, but I think the IP ban with the wait time of 24 hours to post after got register might work better.

[Excessum]

Originally Posted by Kajitsu

What if, after you confirm your account via email, you have to wait 24 hours before you can post? I know this is a forum, therefore you would want to post sooner, but if banned people make more accounts, the point of banning them is lost.

Or you can IP-ban the offending members. I'm just unsure if you want to take a measure that extreme.

- 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.

- IP ban is veeeery easy to circumvent, unless you are banning wide range of IP's, which could lead to banning out even whole countries.

There is, however, one (if not several) slightly efficient method, but it includes quite a lot of coding and forum database altering... meh... i am sorry, Eki, if you are reading this, but you are one lazy (or just too damn busy) admin >_<

[MarkDuff]

Originally Posted by Kajitsu

I have an idea. It won't help stop this, but it might slow it down a little.

What if, after you confirm your account via email, you have to wait 24 hours before you can post? I know this is a forum, therefore you would want to post sooner, but if banned people make more accounts, the point of banning them is lost.

I'm saying this because I want people to enjoy this forum, not claw their eyes out after seeing some of its members' posts.

Yes, maybe this was not a good idea, in which case you can remove my thread. Just please listen to this.

Or you can IP-ban the offending members. I'm just unsure if you want to take a measure that extreme.

The IP band is a very good Idea but sence Kanji isn't an Administer he can not issue one