New Years Resolution -- More Spam?

[Curt]

Originally Posted by mart

Now you'd think the spammers would get the message, even with a thread that says their just not welcome here and will be banned immediately.
Maybe it's me, but if i was a spammer and saw this thread, i wouldn't bother with this forum.

I doubt that the spammers read this thread or care what's written here. Most of them, at least on initial creation of their account, never leave the control panel. The ones that post a message appear to just look for the most recently updated forum or thread to post their garbage in.

[Anoree]

I doubt that most of the spammers are even humans. I suspect that they're just little programs in BotNetworks, where a group of captured computers are controlled from elsewhere and do tasks like mailing spam, attack internet servers - or infiltrate forums to post spam - all automatically.
The owners of the computers used might only experience some loss of computing or surfing speed, if even that.

I've seen a kind of evolution in some of the spam posts: Early ones were just nonsense, some random words grouped together as "sentences." Then there were posts that apparently were copied posts from other forums. Now I see posts that include references to our forum - a new quality.

[mart]

Yes i guess your right Curt, didn't know spammers can be automated Anoree. Just a shame you have to waste so much time in removing this junk, i'm sure it's appreciared by all the members here.

[Natal]

Maybe require people to be signed up for a month before posts are allowed would help. Or something like that.

[Anoree]

Originally Posted by Natal

Maybe require people to be signed up for a month before posts are allowed would help. Or something like that.

I think that would only delay the spam posts. We see some banned users continuously trying to post to the forum for months now.

We're working on a solution to keep them out of the forum. I don't want to get into details of that openly, though.

[Enigma]

Originally Posted by Anoree

I think that would only delay the spam posts. We see some banned users continuously trying to post to the forum for months now.

We're working on a solution to keep them out of the forum. I don't want to get into details of that openly, though.

trust me, there are a lot of things that can be done on this forum to help stop the spam, and none of it is being done.

and every thing you can think of there is a way to get round it, so talking about it on the forum wont really stop them.

1. To post on this site you have to register.
2. Activated email verification
3. Activate Image Verification
4. Banned 'free' email domains many spammers use
5. To post they have to type in the image verification image.

And there are mant more things that canbe done , as this forum is very easy to spam, this forum will be on a list of easy forums, the spammers will first come to the place that they can spam the fastest, this makes sence as they get paied per click, the mre time it takes them to spam, the less they will want to come here and do it.

Then there are the spam bots, that no matter what you do they will still spam,

The idea is not to stop them all as this will never happen, but the idea is to slow them down, make it as hard for them to spam as possible, while still being user friendly.

This can be done by adding extra security to the forum, and the harder you make it, you'll then come of the "List" as an easy spam target, thus getting less spam coming in.

[Dan4life]

So will we as members will be offered special member promotions. What are our ensentives or bentfits as members for the new year in 2011. What kind of new changes will be expected this year.

[Anoree]

Originally Posted by enigma2

1. To post on this site you have to register.
2. Activated email verification
3. Activate Image Verification
4. Banned 'free' email domains many spammers use
5. To post they have to type in the image verification image.

1. As long as I'm here that always was the case.
2. That's now active.
3. This is also active.
4. That's something that would affect real users that we want to be here, too, so that's not an option.
5. This one would make posting more difficult for everybody, so that's not a real option either.

As you said, we never can stop all the spammers, the key is to make it as difficult for the spammers as possible while still having the forum user friendly.

We'll probably have a lot spammer accounts waiting to be activated to spam, but new ones should be mostly stopped. The amount of spams here should considerably go down now, even if it takes some time.