homebrewandbeer.com

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.

They're trying to boost their Google pagerank.

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

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.

Cheers,

Oliver

I know it would mean extra work, but can you set it up that a moderator has to approve new members?

how many new members are there appearing each week/month?

Would this idea be unrealistic?

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?

I'm running a mail server with about 4 domains on it and I cop about a thousand spam emails a day - spam drives me bonkers!

hey, this latest spammer knob is just a guest user - can you make guests read only so you have to register to post?

it won't solve all of them but it will help

Guests are allowed to post in this section of the discussion board so that people who haven't been able to sign up are able to contact the Mods

Cheers

ahh, that makes sense I guess.

The seem to be proliferating like fleas on a dog. 'Tis quite annoying.

Cheers,
Greg

Can you set it up so any new sign ups have to activate an new accounts from a link on a bounce back e-mail? That can slow them down.

I've tightened up the registration process significantly. Hopefully this will stop most spam registrations.

Fingers crossed.

Oliver

oh, the irony. spamming this thread.. LOL

edit: before the spam was removed, it was above my post

KEG wrote:oh, the irony. spamming this thread.. LOL

edit: before the spam was removed, it was above my post

Now it's below your post. You're surrounded. Give up and, what does it say, buy Levitra online?

Danzar wrote:

KEG wrote:oh, the irony. spamming this thread.. LOL

edit: before the spam was removed, it was above my post

Now it's below your post. You're surrounded. Give up and, what does it say, buy Levitra online?

Now its below yours

nothing like free entertainment...

And a hearty welcome to terted53!

I sat here and watched it post on every forum section. Bloody things!

grr.... they're so irritating sometimes!

and the things they try to entice you with! i mean, celine dion? who's gonna click that!