SPAM is starting to piss me off

[mongoose_dude]

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...

[Minion]

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.

[Dibles]

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.

[Scooterza]

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!

 

[Andrew T]

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

[Baldrick]

 

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

 

[firewolf]

put em in the containers and set em alight!

[kosmonooit]

Jeez for a moment I thought it was SRAM that was the problem lol

[Christopher Brunsdon]

 

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

 

[mongoose_dude]

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.
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Natuurlik... I not thinking properly was.

[mongoose_dude]

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?!

[Guest Frail4Life]

Damn Monkeys.

 

 

 

Admin are on holiday.

[Tumbleweed]

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

[Mudsimus]

If we had any moderators this would not be such a big problem.

[Tumbleweed]

i vote mud dee for mod! then he could be a muderator.

[scotty]

Bit of an irritant but just ignore them. Mods cannot be expected to continuously check posts, they also have to work and cycle.