Look at these spamer knobs....... Loans and poker shit from the states. Gees seriously what the hell is wrong with them?? If no one gets into there sites or looks at them why are thay bothering. Just give up i say didnt your parents teach you that?? Oh thats rite no one cares for you!!! Just give the hell up well yas.
If that's the case, then why not ban posting links in the "help and suggestion" section? This is how google ranks are calculated, so it should remove thir incentives for littering our beloved forum.
Timmsy wrote:Look at these spamer knobs....... Loans and poker shit from the states. Gees seriously what the hell is wrong with them?? If no one gets into there sites or looks at them why are thay bothering. Just give up i say didnt your parents teach you that?? Oh thats rite no one cares for you!!! Just give the hell up well yas.
9 times out of 10 its a script.
phpBB is probably the most popular forum software in use out there, so its not beyond the realms of possibility that someone's written a quick hack that understands how to post & will try to post poker/online pharmacy/whatever crap in every section on a forum.
There's no use yellin' at 'em. They can't read
"Ask most people to name a Mexican beer and they'll name Corona. Coincidentally, if you ask most people to name a bodily fluid, they'll name urine."
- John Carroll explaining why Dos Equis > Corona.
I reckon I delete about 20 or 30 of these spam members a week, plus about 10 posts.
Some time ago I enabled visual confirmation of registration (where you have to read the letters and numbers from a picture and enter them during registration). That helped somewhat, but obviously some registration "bots" have figured out a way around the visual confirmation.
I'll look into further steps I can take. But for now, I'll just continue deleting them, which I usually do within a few hours of them registering.
It would probably be a lot of extra work for the mods altho if they are having to remove spammers and their spam then some extra steps to register might be the way forward. Maybe an invite system - we all get 5 invites and can give them out to friends or people on other forums so we now we are only getting the real people in?
