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Re: Spam (no, not the canned meat - sorry)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 14:34
by Andy1672
can anything be done to make it more difficult to become a member ?

Perhaps if new members had to await conformation from the baron or something ?

Re: Spam (no, not the canned meat - sorry)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 14:38
by paulitoy
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Perhaps if new members had to await conformation from the baron or something ?


Totally agree with you Andy.

That's what most other forums do to beat these bastards.

:doc: :doc: :doc:

Re: Spam (no, not the canned meat - sorry)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 19:14
by The Baron
Good call.

I've just set the forum to require confirmation for new registrations, so hopefully that'll cut it down a lot.

If it continues then I can disable new registrations entirely until a fix is posted, maybe adopt a Demonoid-style of only accepting new registrations on certain days / times.

Sorry about all this, everyone.

Re: Spam (no, not the canned meat - sorry)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 12:17
by SteveD
Good call guys - seems to be working, even if it is a little extra work for Baron.

And no need for apologies Baron - in no way your fault! Just find out the addresses for these swines and lets all head round to give them a bloody good hiding?

Re: Spam (no, not the canned meat - sorry)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 10:16
by tintinlostsnowy
It looks like the spam is back again had to go to page 2 before I could read a proper topic :-(

Re: Spam (no, not the canned meat - sorry)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 10:18
by Sundance
see we got some lovely Russian-language porn in the toys forum...

Re: Spam (no, not the canned meat - sorry)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 10:28
by tintinlostsnowy
Sundance wrote:see we got some lovely Russian-language porn in the toys forum...
So that's what the Action Force get up to in their days off from fighting the evil Enemy or is this a plot from the Baron to corrupt some more recruits to the Red Shadows :twisted:

Re: Spam (no, not the canned meat - sorry)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 11:36
by Ross SC
all you need to do is have it set up so people message & ask to join, including their reasons why they want to join.
if they know nothing about anything the site covers, or they seem like a dick just refuse!

Re: Spam (no, not the canned meat - sorry)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:07
by The Baron
There will no doubt be an update for the forum software soon.

As ever, please don't respond to the spam threads. They generate auto-notification e-mails which flag the account as being active. I delete all spam accounts and posts, and unfortunately all replies along with them.

Re: Spam (no, not the canned meat - sorry)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 23:30
by Red Laser
The Baron wrote:There will no doubt be an update for the forum software soon.

As ever, please don't respond to the spam threads. They generate auto-notification e-mails which flag the account as being active. I delete all spam accounts and posts, and unfortunately all replies along with them.
I didn't know this the other day Baron when I replied to that asian porn spam my apologies