Guest JimmyTheSaint Posted January 11, 2014 Report Share Posted January 11, 2014 The spam has been getting more frequent. I assume they're not bots, but rather very poor people who are paid almost nothing to manually register and spam. Any chance of having mods manually review new account registrations? I forget if registration requires clicking an email activation link or not, so maybe that's also worth trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JimmyTheSaint Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Right now, the first 23 topics at the BitTorrent Sync discussion are all spam. That's the entire first page and part of the second. Any possibility of stricter controls on membership? I mean, that kind of density basically precludes user participation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Topics are removed and I've done a couple of things to hopefully reduce the spam further. I'd like to avoid having to moderate all new member's posts though. Let's see if it works! Also, I've promoted you to a mod, since you've been a helpful, active user on the forums. If you do see any other spammers go through, it helps to flag them as a spammer. Just hover over their name and click on the flag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JimmyTheSaint Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 OK, will continue to play whackamole with spam in the BT Sync forum. But as long as this is non-bot spamming, in my experience the only thing you can do is manually approve new accounts and exclude the places of known spammers-for-hire. You don't have to moderate new members' posts, just their initial sign-up. I forget if these forums require verification via email, but that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Well, I added some extra things to catch more known spammers (which should catch the low-paid humans doing it).And yeah, the forums do require verification via email. It also already was blocking about 1/3 of registrations for spam, so it wasn't entirely ineffective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Any better yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold Feit Posted February 5, 2014 Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 I've killed at least 3 20+ post spam accounts in the past 12 hours, so "not much" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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