A Suggestion...

[benchmark00]

Lately we seem to be having a boom in spamming (advertising), especially in OT.

There surely is a solution to this. I'm a casual member of a forum which is considerably bigger than this one and there's more or less never any advertising threads, but on CW theres two or so a night.

The only conclusion I came to, in terms of differences between the boards, is that on the other board, the site admin team have to accept your registration, so you submit your details and in a day or a few hours they send you a confirmation email. Could you pick up on whether the member is purely going to be posting spam by their registration details, i.e. email address etc.? And is this feasible, or too labour intensive?

Just a thought, but there's definate issues, especially in the last few weeks, regarding spammers.




Please don't post a picture of canned SPAM.

 

[James]

Lately we seem to be having a boom in spamming (advertising), especially in OT.

Yes, spammers are hitting vBulletin forums all over the internet

The only conclusion I came to, in terms of differences between the boards, is that on the other board, the site admin team have to accept your registration, so you submit your details and in a day or a few hours they send you a confirmation email.

I personally think that's too extreme, and annoying to new members. As you say below, it's also quite labour intensive.

Could you pick up on whether the member is purely going to be posting spam by their registration details, i.e. email address etc.? And is this feasible, or too labour intensive?

There isn't an exact pattern to their details, which does make it difficult.

Just a thought, but there's definate issues, especially in the last few weeks, regarding spammers.

There is usually at least one mod on 24*7. The best option is to report the post and a mod will deal to it. Most have been dealt to within 30 minutes.

 

[cameeel]

Please don't post a picture of canned SPAM.

Sorry, but I can't ignore an invitation like that one.

 

[alternative]

You are quite rite there Murphy.. Its been going on a fair bit these days, but i really don't see how James or anyone can stop this, apart from banning the user.

 

[alternative]

Sorry, but I can't ignore an invitation like that one.

Hahahhaha

 

[benchmark00]

Yes, spammers are hitting vBulletin forums all over the internet



I personally think that's too extreme, and annoying to new members. As you say below, it's also quite labour intensive.



There isn't an exact pattern to their details, which does make it difficult.



There is usually at least one mod on 24*7. The best option is to report the post and a mod will deal to it. Most have been dealt to within 30 minutes.

Cheers for the reply, but surely there has to be a way of avoiding it?

 

[alternative]

No there isn't...

 

[James]

Cheers for the reply, but surely there has to be a way of avoiding it?

Not without locking down registration or requiring thread moderation no.

 

[benchmark00]

No there isn't...

Well why does a larger vBulletin forum have seemingly no issues with spammers?

 

[benchmark00]

Just a query, how many (on average of say... the last 2 months) new members register each day?

 

[James]

Well why does a larger vBulletin forum have seemingly no issues with spammers?

Perhaps they haven't been hit by the spammers.

 

[James]

Just a query, how many (on average of say... the last 2 months) new members register each day?

Visitor statistics aren't made public.

 

[benchmark00]

Hmmmm, righto.

 

[Burpey]

Hmmmm, righto.

You could easily do it yourself.

 

[benchmark00]

You could easily do it yourself.

cbf.

 

[marc71178]

You are quite rite there Murphy.. Its been going on a fair bit these days, but i really don't see how James or anyone can stop this, apart from banning the user.

Not sure banning would do anything really, since these people only register to make 1 post.

 

[alternative]

Quite true, so that means that there is no other option but to leave it alone like now..

 

[Burpey]

I like the spam threads. Gives you a chance to put in a few witty one liners.

 

[benchmark00]

Quite true, so that means that there is no other option but to leave it alone like now..

Never been an ambitious, visionary type have you Alto?

 

[pasag]

Can't you make it that you need minimum 5 or so posts to create a new topic?