Spam is out of control!

[n8]

I know this isn't new news, but I'm just curious what can/is being done regarding the flood of spammers we've recently had. It seems that many are being left unchecked for an unreasonably long time.

[pafindr]

Yeah it looks like they do it on the weekends when most people may be out with family and can't keep them in check.

[LeeIs]

yeah, and i noticed not many people are posting in the critique forum due to this probably.

[LeeIs]

A way of nipping them in the butt (the spammers) is to just make more mods and give them the power to delete threads. problem solved. also, i dont remember, i've signed up a long time ago, but do you have the java encription thing that makes people type the word they see when signing up?

[Greg McCary]

Liban I think something is in the works that will help. Just hang on. I know I have wore my clicking finger out in the Olympus forum. It almost got personal with one spammer.LOL

[OldClicker]

I would be willing to be a spam control Mod as long as I am given the authorization and tools to do the job. - Terry

[n8]

I couldn't remember if a captua (or whatever they are) was used when I signed up...that would be one tactic. Even still, maybe a cap on the number of threads posted within a certain amount of time would at least slow down the traffic while not affecting legit members.

[SmartWombat]

the spammers keep me busy!
I have one day sick, and it kind of piles up.
the drive-by spammers aren't much of a problem - individual mods can delete them and they don't clutter up the forum,
it's the automated bots that cause the big pile-ups, ones that post every day.

[EOSThree]

I know you are doing what you can to try and control this, but Liban is right, if I come here (like right now), and see spam completely across the board, I leave. I just don't feel like wading through all of the spam. I don't know what the difference is here but most sites I visit regularly don't have this kind of problem with spam, here it's become absolutely ridiculous recently.

[SmartWombat]

just deleted another batch

[LeeIs]

Liban I think something is in the works that will help. Just hang on. I know I have wore my clicking finger out in the Olympus forum. It almost got personal with one spammer.LOL

:lol: that's funny. they're probably just bots, which makes it even funnier

[Photo-John]

Thanks for the feedback, guys. We have a forum upgrade in the works that should make a huge difference by not allowing new members to post links. Until then, please be patient and know that the moderators and I are working on the spam all the time. On a busy Holiday weekend like we just had it is going to be worse. I wasn't able to be on the computer much at all to manage it. I just spent about an hour deleting and banning and I think it's pretty much all undr control for the moment.