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Spammers!!!
- Thread starter foxfish
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Ian Holdich
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it's alright, i just bought some cheap UGG boots.
JK
JK
Matt Warner
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Do you mean cheap fake UGG boots 
Matt Warner
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The whole active topics page was completely full of spam last night!
Alastair
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Looks like it will be again shortly. Sad reallyMatty1983 said:
Alastair
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Morgan Freeman
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The whole forum is swamped. What's going on?
Alastair
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Morgan Freeman said:
That latest one made me laugh with the picture of the girl and the 'click here if you want to be my boyfriend, kiss you!' bit
Errr yeah ok I'll click.........lol
Morgan Freeman
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I struggle to believe that this tactic actually attracts people to buy things!
Sorry, all. I'm no expert but I believe they're actually real people setting up accounts so unfortunately there's little we can do at the moment.
I'll look into other registration methods. Meanwhile hopefully the mods will be more active and delete their accounts. I've deleted a dozen in the last 48hrs our so.
I'll look into other registration methods. Meanwhile hopefully the mods will be more active and delete their accounts. I've deleted a dozen in the last 48hrs our so.
nayr88
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On some forums I've joined you have to wait for a moderator to approve your account before you can Post, could be worth considering.
I know obviously that you can tell a spammer by user name but maybe by other parts of the registration form maybe a tell us about yourself box haha they'd drop them selfs right in it with the way they word things
I know obviously that you can tell a spammer by user name but maybe by other parts of the registration form maybe a tell us about yourself box haha they'd drop them selfs right in it with the way they word things
The more active & bigger the forum gets the more spammers you get.
The spammers use different cloaking methods - hiding the links discreetly, so that you won't spot it if you do not look carefully, perhaps it is in the upper right corner or another trick used by human spammers - they register make a post then come back two weeks later & edit their post with spam links.
Automated spammers - you can ban the suckers as fast as you can but, they come back!
They are robotized scripts that look for weaknesses in forum platforms (there are not that many and the vulnerabilities are known) to automatically do this kind of thing....
There is a new piece of software available for forums to help identify and ban spammers. It works by working with a global blacklist generated from lots of forums around the world.
Having active staff is the best method to keep the forum clean!
The spammers use different cloaking methods - hiding the links discreetly, so that you won't spot it if you do not look carefully, perhaps it is in the upper right corner or another trick used by human spammers - they register make a post then come back two weeks later & edit their post with spam links.
Automated spammers - you can ban the suckers as fast as you can but, they come back!
They are robotized scripts that look for weaknesses in forum platforms (there are not that many and the vulnerabilities are known) to automatically do this kind of thing....
There is a new piece of software available for forums to help identify and ban spammers. It works by working with a global blacklist generated from lots of forums around the world.
Having active staff is the best method to keep the forum clean!
You have a very good point mate, all forums need enthusiastic staff that spend time on the forum & ideally visit every day. 
Of course as staff are voluntary workers nobody can expect anything from them & rightly so as this is all meant to be fun.
To be honest this forum appears to operate very smoothly with very few arguments & only the occasional spam issues.
I do think it would be nice if more folk welcomed new members & its a shame the non plants keeping threads are not more active but those are purely personal point of view.
Of course as staff are voluntary workers nobody can expect anything from them & rightly so as this is all meant to be fun.
To be honest this forum appears to operate very smoothly with very few arguments & only the occasional spam issues.
I do think it would be nice if more folk welcomed new members & its a shame the non plants keeping threads are not more active but those are purely personal point of view.
Morgan Freeman
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I'm unemployed
nayr88
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There should be a spam team!!! Haha
When I was more active posting I would say hello to many new members, and something Im going to get back to now you've mentioned it and I agree, I wouldnt expect a single penny for spending time on thenforu
Like I always do haha
We need a spam team!
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When I was more active posting I would say hello to many new members, and something Im going to get back to now you've mentioned it
and I agree, I wouldnt expect a single penny for spending time on thenforuLike I always do haha
We need a spam team!
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Westyggx
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I'm on the forums every hour of the day at work ha, I'd be part of a spam team!
