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[DoyouWantsum]

would it be possible to make so that if ten or more people reported someone they would get banned until the mods had a chance to review thair posts.

 

[catxx]

gah. spam sucks!

admins, can you ban emails and IP's for these guys?
thats how i've near enough wiped out spam posts on my own forum (which is VB not Invision)

 

[SPLiSH]

gah. spam sucks!

admins, can you ban emails and IP's for these guys?
thats how i've near enough wiped out spam posts on my own forum (which is VB not Invision)

Yep, I think they can ban IP adresses. I agree, spam is so stupid.

 

[SugarQube]

Gosh they need help

 

[i_ganjaman]

It gets me down too,I dread to think what would happen to me, if my partner happend to walk pass and glanced at the threads...she would not be amused and since shes not computer literate i would need to give her a lesson about spamming that would take 'ALL' day

 

[Bloo]

Gosh they need help

"They" are probably automated bots and not even people.

I have just reported 38 posts . That's not even counting all the ones iJay reported.

 

[William]

The trouble is, with a big forum when people search for "powered by invision" we get hit every single time. It used to be robots in the past, but now more and more sweat shop spam centres are being set up. One of the security features is a sequence of numbers and letters in a bigger image which you have to type out to prove you're human. So they just employ squadrons of people on pennies a day to crack them.

Not sure what more we can do, will of course look into it, as it's terrible, it takes forever to go through them all as well as it looking terrible. Unfortunately I'm restricted by the capabilities of the software. I#ve just upgraded to the latest version but am not sure if it has any additional protection.
thanks,will

 

[voo]

Invision should write something so that a new user posting so much so quickly would be identified and halted until verified they are human.

 

[OohFeeshy]

Since they keep advertising the same site, could you add those websites to the list of blocked words?

 

[William]

The trouble is they don't advertise the same site, each username advertises one site and posts about 30 times in very quick succession then that site doesn't appear again.

 

[SirMinion]

That's because once someone has signed up they then use a robot to automatically make multiple posts simulteaneously.

As Williams said, forum spamming is now big business and teams of low paid children are employed to do it from places like china, thailand, Eastern Russia and malaysia. They simply sit in front of computers looking for places to spam a list of links. All day, every day.
If email activation is required they usually use free services like Yahoo, Hotmail or Googlemail or often dot-info adresses and sometimes simply hijacked peoples' legit email.

The purpose of the lists they post is so that the lists get indexed by search engins and so increase the ranking and search position of the listed sites. This is why it's important to remove the lists ASAP before they get indexed.

Over at my Wife's (non fish) forum we also have been troubled by this and now we have resorted to Moderator review of each new member.
A member that signs up with the name 'viagra4u' or 'phamacyest' is clearly not legit and gets deleted before they are even approved.

Other people reveal themselves by lieing about their location so we've made the location field on sign-up compulsory.
Sweat-shop spammers are fully aware that their location has a reputation for spamming & fraud so they put that they're elsewhere. But we then search their IP and find where they are and liers are deleted.

Obviously, checking each sign-up takes our time up but it's been fool-proof so far!

William, there are modification out there that deal with this sort of thing, a couple that spring to mind are one that will not let a member post an url untill they have a certain post count- that would stop people signing up just to spam of their first post.

Another modification simply makes it so that any post containing an URL has to be approved by a Moderator before it appears.

 

[OohFeeshy]

I was going to suggest mod review of all newbies, but didn't think that would be fair on the non-spammers...

 

[black angel]

It would mean anyone with a true emergency may have to wait a while to get let on the forum and would then just look somewhere else.
I like the idea of no url posts until they have a post count.

 

[William]

Have added a couple of extra security settings to the software, was unable to find the no links for users with less than x posts. If the problem doesn't go away then i'll have another look for it

 

[vancouver]

I've seen maybe 2 or 3 spam posts in the past 2 weeks. I wouldn't really call that a problem... as long as someone reports them they will be removed quickly.