New Years Resolution -- More Spam?

[Curt]

What's going on? Did the spammers get together and decide their New Years resolution would be to inundate this forum in spam? It seems like there's a new one popping up every few minutes.

Anoree, laranger, and WhyYou: Thanks for your efforts to beat these guys back!

[mart]

I see no spam Curt!, guess it must be because of admins zero tolerance to it on this forum. The only spam i see is in my fridge!.

[WhyYou]

We work all night long while you guys are sleeping.

BTW...there have been over 56 spammers banned since the first of the year.

[mart]

Originally Posted by WhyYou

We work all night long while you guys are sleeping.

BTW...there have been over 56 spammers banned since the first of the year.

I knew we had great admin on this forum.

Spammers! go home!, your wasting your time spamming this forum!.

[Curt]

Plus the hundreds of "new members," many of them having advertising in their signatures or as their home page.

[WhyYou]

Originally Posted by Curt

Plus the hundreds of "new members," many of them having advertising in their signatures or as their home page.

We delete signatures and home pages that have advertising in them and ban any members who repeat the offense.

[Enigma]

Originally Posted by WhyYou

We work all night long while you guys are sleeping.

BTW...there have been over 56 spammers banned since the first of the year.

so in 8 days, this forum has seen 56 spammers, I would love to know what the total is for the rest of this year, I think you all do a brill job at removing spam, you may not be online sometimes, but we all know how to let you know.

I may make a thread on how to report spam, and have links to admins PM, then people can report it, there is a report button, but not knowing if the admins are able to see this in the ModCP/AdminCP, this may be a way to go about it for new members

[WhyYou]

Update on bans since the first of the year -- 121

[Enigma]

Originally Posted by WhyYou

Update on bans since the first of the year -- 121

it's been 9 days, and theres 121, when will it end.

I did a little calc, and 121 over 9 days, so rounded up to 10 days will give you 4416.5 be the end of the year, if it carrys on like this.

[365 / 10 = 36.5] [121 x 36.5 = 4416.5]

[Max]

I think everyone here has noticed that the spam has gotten out of control here. Are there any further steps we can take? There is probably only one person doing this because the number of spammers is much lower than you might think, but I am just wondering if there is a way to stop this, because it has happened before.

[Geezer]

Originally Posted by Max

I think everyone here has noticed that the spam has gotten out of control here. Are there any further steps we can take? There is probably only one person doing this because the number of spammers is much lower than you might think, but I am just wondering if there is a way to stop this, because it has happened before.

I have never seen so much spam on this forum. It is like someone opened the flood gates a couple of months ago. OR, they were being removed so quickly by the moderators that we never saw them.

[CK1]

I am really noticing a heigher rate of spam. i don't know if particular spammer have discovered the board or have developed an application to auto post on all these types of message boards.

[Max]

Originally Posted by CK1

I am really noticing a heigher rate of spam. i don't know if particular spammer have discovered the board or have developed an application to auto post on all these types of message boards.

A lot of times it is just 1 person. There aren't that many spammers out there, they just have certain algorithms in place to automatically send these messages to people/post them. I'm sure everyone here would be civilized enough to allow us to flag these posts for spam. I have always had the feeling that this forum generally advocates free speech, and nobody will abuse the system.

[WhyYou]

Every member of this message board has the ability to flag any post that they think is spam by reporting that post. There is a report icon on the lower left under the nickname of the poster.

There are 3 Moderators here and we have been doing the best we can to keep ahead of the spammers. However, since the first of this year the number of bans went from a little over 400 to over 2500 in one month. During this time we have had some controls activated. But any control can be worked through by a determined spammer. We have learned a trick or two to help us identify some spammers before they post their spam. But arbitrarily banning people because they look like spammers is not a good idea.

Recently, the amount of spam has diminished for the most part. There are still times when there will be peaks. Just remember that we Moderators must sleep sometimes.