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General => Tech Forum => Topic started by: jeffhop on June 06, 2006, 11:57:06 am

Title: whats with all these bl**dy annoying spam threads?
Post by: jeffhop on June 06, 2006, 11:57:06 am: how come we now seem to be getting inundated with these cr*ppy threads?
Title: Re: whats with all these bl**dy annoying spam thre
Post by: orange on June 06, 2006, 06:51:24 pm: I'm not sure why now particularly but I think that if we didn't have 'guest' thread creation it wouldn't be a problem. Perhaps make it that guests can only reply to existing threads and you have to register to create a thread??? Bit draconian, but anybody genuine would only need to register first which isn't hard...
Title: Re: whats with all these bl**dy annoying spam thre
Post by: kiwi on June 06, 2006, 10:12:42 pm: i have been deleting them as soon as i see them.i was going to block the ip but the same guest often hs wildy differing ip numbers...lets watch for a bit.if it gets really bad might move to register only...
Title: Re: whats with all these bl**dy annoying spam thre
Post by: jimbo on June 09, 2006, 05:09:18 am: Quote
i have been deleting them as soon as i see them.i was going to block the ip but the same guest often hs wildy differing ip numbers...lets watch for a bit.if it gets really bad might move to register only...

I noticed that Grimjack already made the move at our hostsite.

http://idriders.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=General;action=display;num=1149351743
Title: Re: whats with all these bl**dy annoying spam thre
Post by: kiwi on June 10, 2006, 01:45:16 pm: course there is nothing to stop one of these freeloaders to register and continue to post,tho they would get banned/blocked pretty quickly
Title: Re: whats with all these bl**dy annoying spam thre
Post by: orange on June 10, 2006, 07:37:40 pm: I don't think it's an active process by an individual - somebody gets a program that seeks forums that you can post to without registration and it posts spam. Nobody's sat at a keyboard doing it themselves.