mongoose_dude Posted December 27, 2009 Share Can we not do something about these tossers who are supposedly selling macbooks and phones and stuff? OBVIOUSLY this whole story is a scam, and it's just not relevant for our forums. My suggestion: since this forum interface / engine makes use of IP logging, just block the IP of these motherf**kers and ban them. Any other suggestions? Sorry about the rage but this is slowly starting to make me pretty woes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minion Posted December 27, 2009 Share On some of the Google discussion groups there is a setting where the first couple of posts by new users have to be reviewed by a moderator before they are submitted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibles Posted December 27, 2009 Share Just click the "Report Post" button at the bottom of the spam post, type "Spam" into the text box and send it. The moderators remove the spam posts fairly quickly and they also suspend the accounts of the spammers.I used to report all the spam posts I came across but have stopped doing so. Looks like no one reports any of the spam posts now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooterza Posted December 27, 2009 Share Also, since most ISP's allocate IP addresses as you connect (and you therefore usually get a new one every time you connect), blocking an IP address will usually only result in some poor innocent person getting blocked. Tracking by IP address is only really worth the effort for serious crimes. Moderating the first 2 or 3 messages a new member sends sounds like a good way forward. I run a mail message group for a CHURCH environmental group and we started getting "Click here to see my sexy steamy hot video" being posted. As you can imagine, they were not amused! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew T Posted December 27, 2009 Share Moderating the first few posts is usually the most effective method - and don't let them know when blocked as most of this is mass hit-and-miss stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baldrick Posted December 27, 2009 Share Moderating the first few posts is usually the most effective method - and don't let them know when blocked as most of this is mass hit-and-miss stuffI you did that then holy would never have gotten to 1000000000000 posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firewolf Posted December 27, 2009 Share put em in the containers and set em alight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosmonooit Posted December 27, 2009 Share Jeez for a moment I thought it was SRAM that was the problem lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Brunsdon Posted December 27, 2009 Share Jeez for a moment I thought it was SRAM that was the problem lol LOL - same here. Not helping that I've been kicked off my PC this holiday due to Sims3 and need to surf on my netbook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongoose_dude Posted December 27, 2009 Share Also' date=' since most ISP's allocate IP addresses as you connect (and you therefore usually get a new one every time you connect), blocking an IP address will usually only result in some poor innocent person getting blocked. Tracking by IP address is only really worth the effort for serious crimes. [/quote'] Natuurlik... I not thinking properly was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongoose_dude Posted December 27, 2009 Share Moderating the first few posts is usually the most effective method - and don't let them know when blocked as most of this is mass hit-and-miss stuff Shame... then some poor monkey has to read through 112397863171263 posts every day Guess it's a foolproof method though. Who are the admins of this forum anyway?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frail4Life Posted December 27, 2009 Share Damn Monkeys. Admin are on holiday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumbleweed Posted December 28, 2009 Share Moderating the first few posts is usually the most effective method - and don't let them know when blocked as most of this is mass hit-and-miss stuff I you did that then holy would never have gotten to 1000000000000 posts and with this post, it's 1000000000001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudsimus Posted December 28, 2009 Share If we had any moderators this would not be such a big problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumbleweed Posted December 28, 2009 Share i vote mud dee for mod! then he could be a muderator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted December 28, 2009 Share Bit of an irritant but just ignore them. Mods cannot be expected to continuously check posts, they also have to work and cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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