Them Spambots Options

[Rusty]

A bit of an increase lately in the spambots coming through. They are a bit of an annoyance, but no where near as bad as other ones we've had in the past.

I'd say I'm on here regularly (3x + a day?), so the posts/threads should get removed pretty quick. Plus I'm pretty sure it's only us mods who are after these special deals these guys keep posting about right?



Feel free to post in here saying there's a new spam thread/post for the time being, saves us getting 10 messages about the one thread.

Cheers

[Coomer]

Ok, I think I've got a solution in place now that should help.

A member's first post/posts will be hidden from the public and need to be manually reviewed by the mods. If approved (valid member), then that member can post freely. If deleted (spam or other some other form of trouble), then management can simply ban them.

And I also removed about thirty registered but yet-to-post spam accounts, and patched some security issues in the third party forum software that I think allowed this to happen in the first place.

So, we'll see how things go in the next few weeks, but I'm pretty sure that things should be better on the spam front!