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#1 2007-11-17 09:09:06

amokrun
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From: Finland
Registered: 2006-08-08
Posts: 413

Seems like we are getting spam now.

This was going to happen sooner or later. Apparently a spam bot is creating messages with identical content all over the forum. I already reported the whole thing to Hotmail and plan to do the same with the Gmail address. More importantly, however, some action should be taken to ensure that spammers cannot register tons of accounts and spam the hell out of these boards. On another forum which I frequent we had closer to thousand new accounts created within a fairly short time while the actual amount of people on the forum may have been closer to 100, if that. The way the forum was set up made it impossible for them to post but it was annoying enough to have to deal with thousands of fake registrations that made it hard to tell legit and bot accounts apart.

Having few admins who could delete trash posts might help in short term. In long term there needs to be a way to stop bots from spamming until they have been verified to be real people. It's maybe possible to remove a couple of posts here and there but constantly removing countless new messages makes it very hard to get anything done.

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