Spam problem

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Originally Posted by Tye 1on

2) Allow editing of the actual thread title, so those that make dumb spelling errors can un-dumb them.

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Changed this a long time ago. Now everyone can change their thread title within 10 minutes of posting it. They can also edit their posts w/o having the 'edited by' as long as they edit it within 10 minutes. If there was an unlimited time amount to either of these, I think it would be abused big time.

I also agree with your #1 and #3. I wish I could make those changes but there is nothing I can do w/o the word from the TGR gods. Unfortunately, I can't just change these types of things that they chose to take away as a company me not being associated with them in any way.

If they want it done and want me to implement it, I would be perfectly happy to do so.

D - Go down to the village, get Todd out of the office and into the Moose or VC and work some magic. :tongue:

there's going to be a better way to do it next year anyway...

I notice the forum seems to be having a big problem with a large number of users registering and posting spam on the forums.
In my opinion, the amount of spam being posted is now getting out of hand - I just checked my e-mail and had 9 CCL forum new post e-mails, 8 of which were spam. Hardly a day goes by now without somebody posting spam.

Would it be possible to disable new registrations for a while or do something else about it eg. more of us regulars with the power to ban/delete spam users/posts, and add a new "no posting spam" rule to the forum rules?

ApparrarY<<<<<<<<<<<<kiddyporn kill this one off

why not make everyone who joins watch this video

[TGRVIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9q2jNjOPdk[/TGRVIDEO]

and then throw in a question ie "what was the kid's name" or something. could help the spam problem, as a bot couldn't answer what billy's name is, and we might not get as many "what ski should I buy" threads.

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Originally Posted by idopyigeobids

I notice the forum seems to be having a big problem with a large number of users registering and posting spam on the forums.
In my opinion, the amount of spam being posted is now getting out of hand - I just checked my e-mail and had 9 CCL forum new post e-mails, 8 of which were spam. Hardly a day goes by now without somebody posting spam.

Would it be possible to disable new registrations for a while or do something else about it eg. more of us regulars with the power to ban/delete spam users/posts, and add a new "no posting spam" rule to the forum rules?

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How is someone who just joined with 10 posts suddenly a 'regular'?
You posted a bunch of computer crap in a Gimp Central thread.
STFU.

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Originally Posted by idopyigeobids

blah,fkn blah,fkn blah......and add a new "no posting spam" rule to the forum rules?

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Holy shit splat, find a mod, quick, this is genius!!!!!:nonono2:

captchas are useless, math is useless. These aren't spambots anymore, they're actual people who are paid pennies a post to linkspam forums. The only way to fix it is to disallow links in posts or signatures for new users.

You can do that. vBulletin lets you create groups and set automatic promotions via post count.

You can set perms so that new users cannot put links in their signatures (a huge problem right now...signature link spam) or in their posts.

Then create a new group "Non-JONGs" (or whatever), let that group post links, and automatically promote new users into it when they have ten posts (or whatever).

********* As it is, the spam is out of control, and since we're only allowed to report one post every 60 seconds, we can't possibly keep up. *********

In the meantime, PLEASE PLEASE google "immobilier" and delete the 40 or 50 French spammer accounts that all have the same links in their signature.

^^^ [ame="http://www.google.com/search?q=immobilier+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tetong ravity.com%2Fforums&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a"]immobilier site:http://www.tetongravity.com/forums - Google Search[/ame]

google only gets 162 hits for French real estate, so it shouldn't be too bad a job... :eek:


also, DNS records can be cross correlated to see if any of this is coming from the same IP blocks
it's simple enough to shut down China or large segments of Africa/Mideast from ever connecting to TGR

protip: very little snow sports in subSaharan Africa

:FIREdevil

Also do the same with "simulateur": google "simulateur site:tetongravity.com". The French real estate spammers are out of control.

Note that these are NOT spambots, they're people. The ONLY solution is to disallow links, as I posted above (highangle gets it too, and knows much more about solutions than I do).

Until TGR does this, we will continue to be inundated by spammers, TGR admins will be spending huge amounts of their time fighting a Sisyphean battle, and flagging posts will be useless because there are a whole lot of very, very poor people in the world willing to linkspam for pennies a post.