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Come on Mods - please delete 10 pages of SPAM !
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For 2.5 hours? Wish my tea breaks were as long
. Good enough is good enough, and I am more than good enough!:j
If all else fails, remember, keep calm and hug a spaniel!0 -
They only need to install an anti-spam bot system to prompt posters for a random screen password before accepting a post, and this would solve it. I reported 20 odd posts around 2pm, which quickly disappeared. Just come back to find another lot. Come on mods, we all want to try to reply to posters, but the genuine threads are lost in a sea of crap!!!0
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None of the board guides are on-lije, but one of the spammers has stopped posting. Hopefully PPR'd...Good enough is good enough, and I am more than good enough!:j
If all else fails, remember, keep calm and hug a spaniel!0 -
Why dont they just put a swear filter on the url being posted (or an autocorrect)?
Easiest way, it then cuts it down to below the ten characters required to post.
Or IP ban the clown (assuming he doesnt have the intelligence to hide behind a nym server).
I wrote a alias hunting system which worked on the OpenTopic/ubb.x forum software which although took a few years to develop was very good at spotting alias/spam accounts (imo )
Even used artificial intelligence in grammar and spelling pattern matching as well as other user "fingerprints" to highlight suspected alias accounts 0 -
The simplest thing, with no risk of false positives, would be a restriction on the number of new threads people can start in a day.
To be fair to the prolific genuine posters a sliding scale ought to work - one new thread post max per day, maybe two, until the member's been around for, say, a week, then increase it,etc.
OK, it won't stop people flooding with replies to other posts but those can be filtered using the ignore list and at least wouldn't clutter up the board index.0
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