Sorry about all the spam!

[MysticTree]

Would it be possible to implement some of the anti-spammer measures such as restricting links in posts until a certain number of posts are reached for example. People who tried to spam up to that level would soon be spotted and thus never reach the magic post number. Those who were obviously genuine could be granted a fast track to full privileges. Just a thought.

[GoodCat]

I totally agree but its not my call. Hopefully something like that will happen in the future :)

Cathy

[MysticTree]

I totally agree but its not my call. Hopefully something like that will happen in the future :)Cathy

yes, I realise it's not up to you but it would make your job much easier and I would imagine there are better measures now than 6 or so years ago when I was modding a forum of the same sort.

[streetsurfer]

Thank you Sweethearts!

[MysticTree]

still going strong ... your modding fingers must be exhausted.

[ReneeH]

Yea... Stevelol is today's troll...

Appreciate your efforts mods!!! :-)

[GoodCat]

Thanks everyone... Yes.. I need to do finger stretches in the mornings ..lol.. Crazy spammers!

[laughalways]

Thank you...it appears to be a never-ending job this week. You are appreciated!

[Living Food]

I don't know if this is applied as I don't track any of the spammers (better things to do) and sometimes they have such similar names.

I happened to be checking who was online and saw how 4 people had such similar (and nonsensical) names, and so did another 4 people, so I checked them out (took all of 2 minutes) and posted their names in case it would help the moderators.

[Aleesha Sattva]

Unfortunately we can't ban someone unless they actually spam the boards. After all, there are members here currently who's usernames seem "spammy" and it wouldn't have been very welcoming of us to ban them before they posted LOL

We are hopeful though that this run of spamming will come to an end soon. Usually it's in January but this year it was mild then... so I guess they all decided to switch it up to August. LOL

Just keep hitting the little triangle whenever you see spam and notify us. It makes our job much easier and quicker! We sooooooo appreciate your help. (((hugs)))

in light,
Aleesha
Admin

[MysticTree]

Why won't you use the anti-spam functions? They help enormously.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

l've just seen one bloke today who has spammed this site 34 times already. Why 34 times? Why not one or two times instead?

[Aleesha Sattva]

We do Mystic. We use all the ones at our disposal. Obviously, it's not enough though.

And I agree Mr. Raw... crazy!

[MysticTree]

You don't use new member posting restrictions, you don't ask new members to write a short bit of blurb about why they want to join and then activate their membership. Just restricting new members from posting links until they have posted say 25 posts makes a difference. This forum has always got more spam on it than any other forum i have ever been on. When you operate a global forum with all the mods (2 i think) in one country you can't keep the forum clean without using the forum functions and settings to help you more.

[Aleesha Sattva]

I agree Mystic. I don't have the ability to add any more than we are currently using. I'm hoping we can get better restrictions soon. Trust me, this isn't fun for us - we have other things to do other than check for spam every few hours. But alas, it's what we need to do at this time in order to keep things cleaned up for all of you.

We really our doing our best with what we have at our disposal. I am hopeful we'll have more at our disposal soon.