Spammers

[Jay Mc]

Re: Spammers

another site I used to use would put all new users into pre-moderation when they first joined meaning that the first few posts that were submitted had to be checked by a moderator before being allowed to appear on the site, causes a bit of work but stopped literally all the spam

[Twocky61]

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That's a very good idea Jay

[Elbmek]

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I have never had one single spammer on my own forum, forum has been running since late 90s! How? I have a registration software, written for me by a friend, in which anybody who wants to join has to first fill in an online small form. This comes to me, and I process the account myself and return details by email. Takes only a couple of minutes for each new member. But the plus side is that they have to provide a valid email for me to reply to. Sounds like a bit of work, not really, and as a consequence never ever seen any spam, anywhere.

[darren]

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when u say a form do you mean an actual form on paper mate.
if so i could not do it.



we dont get much spam here tho compared to some sites im on.

I have never had one single spammer on my own forum, forum has been running since late 90s! How? I have a registration software, written for me by a friend, in which anybody who wants to join has to first fill in an online small form. This comes to me, and I process the account myself and return details by email. Takes only a couple of minutes for each new member. But the plus side is that they have to provide a valid email for me to reply to. Sounds like a bit of work, not really, and as a consequence never ever seen any spam, anywhere.

[Elbmek]

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when u say a form do you mean an actual form on paper mate.
if so i could not do it.



we dont get much spam here tho compared to some sites im on.

No, its online and auto sends to me on completion

[I. R. Fincham]

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So you mean that you personally must approve every registration before the new member is allowed to post?

Yes, that certainly prevents spam. But having to wait for approval is always a bummer. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.386

[Elbmek]

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So you mean that you personally must approve every registration before the new member is allowed to post?

Yes, that certainly prevents spam. But having to wait for approval is always a bummer. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.386

It not that hard and its a private former Army member site. I get the 'form' via email, so do not have to check daily. It takes me a couple of minutes to create the account and make it 'live'.

A friend of mine in Manchester had a football forum, it got attacked by spammers and it was so bad he spent hours/days eradicating the offenders. He shut the forum whilst cleaning it out.

I saw another attacked to a lesser extent but the owner/admin had a hell of a job. He reverted to admin authorisation in an effort to control it; even that was only partially successful.

My method may sound 'time consuming' but not time consuming at all and certainly not as time consuming as eradicating an attack. As I said, NOT one single spammer have I had, ever.

[I. R. Fincham]

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It not that hard and its a private former Army member site. I get the 'form' via email, so do not have to check daily. It takes me a couple of minutes to create the account and make it 'live'.

I presume you don't sit awake by your computer 24/7 waiting for registrations. Presumably some must arrive while you're doing other things, such as sleeping. So some people have to wait hours for approval, right?
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[Elbmek]

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normally no, but at the most less than a day. Most of my members are same time zone as me, so they sleep too. I have members in Australia, USA, Canada, Portugal, and other 'far' flung time zones. But they are happy with the status quo. Depends on whether you like getting spammed or not?

[80sChav]

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Hi HG, Heather,
It looks like that possibly another spammer has possibly signed up with the name of SusannaMon and a link to her homepage in her very first post in the "Introduce Yourself category

[amethyst]

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Hi HG, Heather,
It looks like that possibly another spammer has possibly signed up with the name of SusannaMon and a link to her homepage in her very first post in the "Introduce Yourself category

When new members have a link I am always suspicious and do not click on just in case

[HG]

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Hi HG, Heather,
It looks like that possibly another spammer has possibly signed up with the name of SusannaMon and a link to her homepage in her very first post in the "Introduce Yourself category

Thanks, she's been zapped!

[angliaknight]

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I've seen some of these posts re' streaming of games, one question what would happen if i clicked on one, i never have , just curious.

[Jay Mc]

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I've seen some of these posts re' streaming of games, one question what would happen if i clicked on one, i never have , just curious.

Well basically you will open a vortex to another dimension allowing all manner of aliens to come into this world laying waste to all civilization as we know !!!!!!!

or you will end up on a dodgy website that will cause you to get all horrible viruses on your PC

I dare you ....................

[Heather74]

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If you see anything you are not sure of please report it, that way we get an email alert and will check it out, no matter how unsure you are hit report anyway its completely confidential and the reported member is never made aware their post has been flagged.