Spamming problem need to be addressed
- Thread starter Spirit Of Nature
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Well, there are 4 problems with the spammer:
1. It hides behind other IP-addresses, making it impossible to IP-ban them.
2. It makes all the accounts manually (or at least don't seem to have a problem with creating them), so a better register account system wouldn't work
3. Requirement for creating topics would mean new users who aren't spammers would have to do something like that too, which might cause them to accidentally spam threads or something. (Not sure how to explain this, if this point doesn't make sense, that's probably why)
4. A flagging user system that checked the amount of flags a post gets would be possible to misuse.
1. It hides behind other IP-addresses, making it impossible to IP-ban them.
2. It makes all the accounts manually (or at least don't seem to have a problem with creating them), so a better register account system wouldn't work
3. Requirement for creating topics would mean new users who aren't spammers would have to do something like that too, which might cause them to accidentally spam threads or something. (Not sure how to explain this, if this point doesn't make sense, that's probably why)
4. A flagging user system that checked the amount of flags a post gets would be possible to misuse.
I don't think there is a way to solve this problem, they always find another way :/
Neither think it is really nescessary for such a small forum, I would rather wait until it becomes a real problem, for now, most of the possible solutions will become another problem.
I think we could use the "classic" solution if it acctually becomes nescessary, for example of the forum grows a lot.
Where we choose some of the most trustable forum users and give them the power to delete these annoying spammers.
Neither think it is really nescessary for such a small forum, I would rather wait until it becomes a real problem, for now, most of the possible solutions will become another problem.
I think we could use the "classic" solution if it acctually becomes nescessary, for example of the forum grows a lot.
Where we choose some of the most trustable forum users and give them the power to delete these annoying spammers.
...and they are back. I will never understand the concept of some advert strategies. I assume it is some sort of phishing deal trying to get peoples credit card info? If not then it really makes no sense to me. Obviously not very well thought out either because I would assume that new kitchen cabinets and abortion pills are not really high on the average besiege'rs want list. Before the internet it was commercials on TV ...which I muted . Now its spammers, pop-ups and forced youtube ads. I am easily annoyed and spiteful to the core. Forcing me to look at something does the exact opposite of what an ad should do .....meaning that if it annoys me I will remember the product name and make damn sure that they never , ever get any of my moneys.
I understand your frustration guys, it is proving very challenging to stop the spam. Unfortunately it seems most of it is posted whilst myself and ITR are offline.
I've tried a number of different preventative measures both for sign up and posting, none of them seem to have slowed the spammers down very much.
They're either manually signing up & posting or their bot is quite sophisticated.
I've tried a number of different preventative measures both for sign up and posting, none of them seem to have slowed the spammers down very much.
They're either manually signing up & posting or their bot is quite sophisticated.