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Originally Posted by TheLastFortnight (Post 546326)

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 ;)

0_0 Wow... this thread...

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Originally Posted by Slykaz1 (Post 546335)

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.

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Originally Posted by Excessum (Post 545930)

- 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. :rolleyes:

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by Odin (Post 546494)

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.

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

Check here; http://www.japanforum.com/forum/site...e-posting.html

Post all your mean comments about spammers here...

don't add fuel to there fire by drawing attention to there threads.

I have more to say about the moderators on this site than the spammers. This is ridiculous.

Fvck you smarties.

The moderators need to start cracking down. -_-

Hello, yeah, Im just wondering, does the admin know how to use the IP ban control? You know, Internet Protocol ban? Yeah, if you are a good admin, you might have the knowledge to use the IP ban, IF you are half decent, so please, IP ban those bitchass mothafvckers that are spamming the place.

Thanks. :)

And seriously? He has fvcking 50 posts of that sh!t!! Fvcking ban him. -_-

the only reason they havent been banned faster is because kanji isnt here at the moment and he's the one usually doing the banning