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Title: Spam Attack Post by: Rod Paradise on November 17, 2006, 11:04:52 AM Peeps, you may have noticed that blonde has been hit with a rush of spam, for various items and *ahem* services.
While some of the replies have been funny (honourable? mention to Smithy69), we naturally want to get the posts off of blonde as soon as possible. If you see spam appear please PM any mods/Admin online and alert them to it. Thanks to all that already have assisted with this. The Admin team are looking at ways to keep the spam off blonde, if any techy experts have suggestions/ideas, please feel free to PM them to any of the Admin/Mods. Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: TightEnd on November 17, 2006, 11:11:42 AM p.s I got in touch with the Russian girl. Seems very nice. Managed to buy a truck load of viagra too to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.
Anyone know the Rouble/Sterling exchange rate? Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: tantrum on November 17, 2006, 12:19:41 PM russian ruble - 1 - £-0.02
Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: TightEnd on November 17, 2006, 12:22:59 PM russian ruble - 1 - £-0.02 thank you. next time I will ask for zloty's. ;hide; Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: tantrum on November 17, 2006, 12:25:03 PM Quote thank you. next time I will ask for zloty's. ;tk; Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: Tractor on November 17, 2006, 12:39:47 PM I think its because theve started advertising it on telly again.
Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: boldie on November 17, 2006, 03:17:24 PM I think its because theve started advertising it on telly again. yeah...damn children in need. Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: Foggy on November 17, 2006, 04:13:04 PM Does that mean that there are no 20 yr old Russian girls that are after mature poker playing englishmen?
Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: Rod Paradise on November 17, 2006, 04:21:31 PM Why would they want sassenachs anyway?
;hide; Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: doubleup on November 17, 2006, 04:26:42 PM Does that mean that there are no 20 yr old Russian girls that are after mature poker playing englishmen? From what I understand "mature" and if possible a heart condition combined with life assurance are precisely the things that 20yr old Russian women are looking for in a spouse...... Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: Foggy on November 17, 2006, 04:46:14 PM What a way to go................................................teaching a 20 yr old to play poker
Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: lazaroonie on November 17, 2006, 11:11:31 PM one way round it would be to prevent new users from posting new threads for a couple of days (they can still contribute to existing threads). that would discourage most of them.
Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: dik9 on November 18, 2006, 03:01:53 AM Verification codes on sign up?
Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: Bongo on November 18, 2006, 03:28:59 AM They're easily bypassed, phpBB has them by default and it stops 0 bots.
I've installed some mods for my forum and they work quite well. I'm sure there are mods out there for SMF too, I'll have a google and see if i can find anything that looks worthwhile. I'm not sure I agree with not letting people post for a few days for a couple of days is a good solution for 2 reasons: 1) I don't like reducing functionality to stop abuse. 2) They can just come back after a few days to spam. Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: boldie on November 18, 2006, 08:20:46 PM They're easily bypassed, phpBB has them by default and it stops 0 bots. I've installed some mods for my forum and they work quite well. I'm sure there are mods out there for SMF too, I'll have a google and see if i can find anything that looks worthwhile. I'm not sure I agree with not letting people post for a few days for a couple of days is a good solution for 2 reasons: 1) I don't like reducing functionality to stop abuse. 2) They can just come back after a few days to spam. stopping someone from posting a thread for the first few days is not a grand idea IMO...new members should be able to post and get involved withe the forum from the start...get involved...that's what it's all about :) Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: Ironside on November 18, 2006, 09:03:34 PM the only fool proof way of stopping spam is having 100000s of mods on 24/7 and reading post before the membership do
but as we dont the best way to keep it to a minium is to hit the report to moderator button dont reply to the spam as it will just bring it to the top of the board mods will deal with it as soon as we can if its via a PM then hit the report to admin button Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: babymonkeyboy on November 18, 2006, 10:03:26 PM They're easily bypassed, phpBB has them by default and it stops 0 bots. I've installed some mods for my forum and they work quite well. I'm sure there are mods out there for SMF too, I'll have a google and see if i can find anything that looks worthwhile. I'm not sure I agree with not letting people post for a few days for a couple of days is a good solution for 2 reasons: 1) I don't like reducing functionality to stop abuse. 2) They can just come back after a few days to spam. stopping someone from posting a thread for the first few days is not a grand idea IMO...new members should be able to post and get involved withe the forum from the start...get involved...that's what it's all about :) ;iagree; I wouldn't have been able to say hello on my birthday otherwise ;D Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: Dingdell on November 20, 2006, 10:29:43 PM Does that mean that there are no 20 yr old Russian girls that are after mature poker playing englishmen? From what I understand "mature" and if possible a heart condition combined with life assurance are precisely the things that 20yr old Russian women are looking for in a spouse...... Not just Russian women ;D Title: Re: Spam Attack Post by: TightEnd on November 21, 2006, 11:04:25 AM We'd already guessed.
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