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Posted by: JongWK Jun 16 2006, 04:14 PM

There's one of them in the General Gaming forum (check it out, you can't miss it).

By the way: Report function is still broken.

Posted by: Bull Jun 20 2006, 06:14 AM

Please, when you can, post links to the threads to facilitate the offenders doom. Thanks

And I'll go take a look in a few. I'll also pass along the report function stuff to Mark.

Bull

Posted by: JongWK Jun 20 2006, 06:28 AM

http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=13361 is another one.

Posted by: PBTHHHHT Jun 25 2006, 08:26 PM

Another http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=13550.

Posted by: Bull Jun 26 2006, 01:58 AM

The Spam crap seems to be a regular thing for now. Just ignore them, Adam or I or someone will delete the thread when we get the chance. *sigh*

Bull

Posted by: nezumi Jun 27 2006, 02:09 PM

Walks like spam, quacks like spam...

http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=13574&hl=

Posted by: Witness Sep 17 2006, 07:05 PM

Are the admins on holiday? There's three bits of spam in the general gaming forum (all nicely lit up with smileys), one of which dates back 4 days.

Posted by: Adam Sep 17 2006, 10:34 PM

Sorry. I'm ultra busy, and so I'm spending almost no time on DS lately.

Posted by: SL James Sep 17 2006, 10:47 PM

So... What? It's not killing you that they're there. They will fall down the last provided people stop relying to them (although some responses have been quite amusing).

Posted by: Witness Sep 18 2006, 08:43 AM

Doesn't matter much- I just worry that letting them sit encourages even more spammers to attack.

Posted by: Tanka Sep 18 2006, 01:42 PM

They spam no matter what.

The forum I co-admin gets spammed a fair bit. We trash and ban their accounts almost immediately, but they still pop up every couple days.

Not much you can do about it, really.

Posted by: PBTHHHHT Sep 18 2006, 01:57 PM

Make it harder to get an account? Have them send back a confirmation email that answers a shadowrun question? Ok, maybe that's a bit too much.

Posted by: Witness Sep 18 2006, 02:56 PM

Hey I was just asking a question and trying to help. No offense intended!
In the forum I used to admin I got the impression that failing to stomp on spammers (yes, I was busy occasionally as well) seemed to be like waving a flag and saying 'hey nobody monitoring this- bring it on!' and I suddenly got inundated. In the end I only got it under control by banning certain dodgy e-mail domains, which I'm sure DS does as well, but no it's never perfect.

Posted by: craigpierce Sep 18 2006, 03:48 PM

since the boards are publicly accessible, trolls will search for keywords in posts. when they find a lot of discussion on a subject like sex, they'll spam thinking someone will think it's an actual post.

i tried searching for the keyword 'sex' but our search feature needs 4 letter words to search on, so i then searched for 'sexy' - i was surprised when i got 8 pages of results.

if we want to keep our boards open and not censor, like s*xy, then pretty much the only other options are to: leave the issue alone and delete the spam when it pops up, make the forums unreachable to non-members or make it harder to join (like having a picture with a word that you have to type in at sign-up or reply to an email to activate your account - or both) - or any combination of these.

just some suggestions. i don't care that the spam is there; it doesn't frazzle my hair - i simply don't stare and it makes those posts easier to bear.

Posted by: Tanka Sep 18 2006, 04:08 PM

QUOTE (Witness)

Hey I was just asking a question and trying to help. No offense intended!

No offense taken. I was just stating how it is on my forum (small as it may be, we're still targetted due to activity. In a mere six months of activity, we have almost 15,000 posts. And that's from around 20 active users).

As soon as a spammer gets your forum URL, they'll target it and spread the URL everywhere. Even if their spam is deleted straight away, they'll keep coming.

Posted by: emo samurai Sep 18 2006, 08:06 PM

Dude, http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=14707

Posted by: Tanka Sep 18 2006, 10:29 PM

Adam says http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=13477&hl= to not bother reporting every spam thread, as it just causes more clutter.

They'll get around to it. Spam happens.