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Re: Spam

nelz — Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:07 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:07 pm

You have now

Re: Spam

heiowge — Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:31 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:31 pm

Be fair, I've sold a load of puzzles and made a ton of new mods in the last few months, but not posted a thing about them.

Re: Spam

nelz — Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:51 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:51 pm

heiowge wrote:

What I mean is you're getting users joining daily just to spam. A more aggressive policy should stop it.

Maybe, but that aggression would be directed at all new users, not only spammers, making the forum less accessible to those that need it the most. I see more posts about cubes than spam some days and find them equally easy to ignore

Re: Spam

M-Saunders — Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:00 am

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:00 am

heiowge wrote:

What I mean is you're getting users joining daily just to spam. A more aggressive policy should stop it.

A pre-moderation policy wouldn't stop that though. They'd still sign up, post spam, and mods would have to check it and inform me. Effectively same system as now. Plus, new users genuinely looking for quick help would have to wait.

It's really no problem here, I think. One or two spammers a day, on a moderately busy forum, is pretty good. Their posts never stay up long and it takes me 30 seconds in the morning to ban them.

M

Re: Spam

towy71 — Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:52 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:52 am

It isn't too bad here heiowge, there are enough moderators to keep holding back the wild hordes

Re: Spam

bobthebob1234 — Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:37 am

Author: bobthebob1234

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:37 am

What, like preemptive bans?

Re: Spam

heiowge — Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:10 am

Author: heiowge

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:10 am

What I mean is you're getting users joining daily just to spam. A more aggressive policy should stop it.

Re: Spam

nelz — Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:06 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:06 am

Overnight we had two spams from one user, and nothing particularly offensive. I think you need to reset your threshold of ridiculousness

Spam

heiowge — Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:40 am

Author: heiowge

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:40 am

This spamming is getting ridiculous. Can't we tighten up security? Maybe moderated first few posts?