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Spamming

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:56 pm
by Big Astro Fan
This is getting crazy. It's bad enough there is spam in e-mail, but now the moderators have to work overtime to keep it off this page. Why can't people just leave some things alone. Sorry about this but I'm just venting.

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:05 pm
by Astro Forever
Yeah, it's a bit annoying. :shifty: I now try to check the nickname of the last registered member on the main page to see if I can prevent him/her from spamming before it happens. It worked a couple of times, but it seems they don't always wait for a long time before posting for the first time. :mad:

For now it's still not that bad, but if it gets worse, maybe we'll see if it would be worth it to try some things. :d evil:

I suggest to not even open those threads to not reward the spammers. Also, if a thread isn't spam in itself but doesn't make sense, it would probably be better to ignore it, as well. :D

Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:09 pm
by CommanderEVE
spaming is for n00bs i hate it too

Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 1:34 pm
by DrFrag
We've sorted it out. It seems most or all of them were bots, and upgrading the captcha system has stopped them.

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:54 am
by DrFrag
Yeah it makes sense, but I don't think it would really work. A spammer or troublemaker can change their name so easily.