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Re: Post spam and be deleted!

Unread postby davep » Tue 21 Aug 2012, 06:26:45

There's not much us mods can do about it. I can't spend all morning pressing F5 on here. I think Admin made quite a few modifications to the base software so an upgrade to something more robust would not be a simple matter. But I agree it's getting intolerable.
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Tue 21 Aug 2012, 06:53:25

It is visibly killing the site. On days when the place is spammed up, almost nobody bothers posting anything. Readership must be plummeting also. I can't understand how or why this is allowed to continue.
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!

Unread postby dissident » Tue 21 Aug 2012, 08:34:50

How about only allowing new posters (spammers) to post in the open thread only for the first week? This temporarily sacrifices only a part of the forum. But is the forum software flexible enough?
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Tue 21 Aug 2012, 08:41:52

How hard is it to stagger posting rights? 'Your post is awaiting moderation' is fairly common these days.
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!

Unread postby dolanbaker » Tue 21 Aug 2012, 08:47:51

Something has to be done, I'm having to think twice before opening posts!
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!

Unread postby dolanbaker » Tue 21 Aug 2012, 08:51:30

SeaGypsy wrote:How hard is it to stagger posting rights? 'Your post is awaiting moderation' is fairly common these days.

Something like this really needs to be done, for the first ten or so posts, at least!
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!

Unread postby vision-master » Tue 21 Aug 2012, 09:38:54

SG, quit posting yer spam......... lsol
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!

Unread postby KingM » Tue 21 Aug 2012, 10:18:01

SeaGypsy wrote:How hard is it to stagger posting rights? 'Your post is awaiting moderation' is fairly common these days.


Apparently, impossible. Welcome to message boards, circa 1998.
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Re: Проблема с компьютером

Unread postby careinke » Fri 07 Sep 2012, 20:39:10

Even the anti spam thread is getting spammed. The site is unusable at this point. Guess I'll check back later.... Good Luck.
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Re: Проблема с компьютером

Unread postby dolanbaker » Sat 08 Sep 2012, 07:30:01

careinke wrote:
AttiskPoons wrote:


Even the anti spam thread is getting spammed. The site is unusable at this point. Guess I'll check back later.... Good Luck.

Getting spammed to death! :(
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Mon 01 Oct 2012, 23:04:38

And again....
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!

Unread postby lper100km » Thu 06 Dec 2012, 16:56:26

We have been spam free now for a couple of weeks +. It's a real pleasure to read the board again. Kudos to the spamkillers!!
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