God dammit.

[Electro Tomato]

These advertising topics are getting waaay out of hand. Every other day it happens.

Is there any way to stop this?

[nwru]

At the moment, it's not as bad as it has been and not as bad as it could be. The next step would be to implement the Stop Forum Spam mod, but that's an extreme measure because it would block some legitimate users. Since inconveniencing them is worse than the spammers inconveniencing everyone else, this is where we stand.

[Electro Tomato]

Well, that seems to be a blacklist of people who simply spam forums with marketing, how would it be bad?

[raynebc]

How many false positives could really be in that list?

[baseballplayinty]

You'd be susprised how easily people can be accidently "blacklisted". I haven't been on here a lot lately, but KOF had that problem ages ago. Captcha and other methods saved us somehow.

[Electro Tomato]

I was recently at deathmetal.net, and an idea struck me. There, if you have not been a member for a certain amount of time and have not made so many posts, you cannot post links or email adresses. This would altogether eliminate the marketing.

However, this might interfere with new fretters. But, it would give them time to read the tutorials before posting "IMPOSSIBLE SONG OLOLOLOLZ".

[riffmaster32]

I was recently at deathmetal.net, and an idea struck me. There, if you have not been a member for a certain amount of time and have not made so many posts, you cannot post links or email adresses. This would altogether eliminate the marketing.

However, this might interfere with new fretters. But, it would give them time to read the tutorials before posting "IMPOSSIBLE SONG OLOLOLOLZ".

Good idea. But it won't eliminate it. People who have been members from the start could post stuff like that. Or long time members. Good idea though.

[Electro Tomato]

I was recently at deathmetal.net, and an idea struck me. There, if you have not been a member for a certain amount of time and have not made so many posts, you cannot post links or email adresses. This would altogether eliminate the marketing.

However, this might interfere with new fretters. But, it would give them time to read the tutorials before posting "IMPOSSIBLE SONG OLOLOLOLZ".

Good idea. But it won't eliminate it. People who have been members from the start could post stuff like that. Or long time members. Good idea though.

What I'm trying to prevent is spammers who sign up with titles like "(spam) Shox 360 iPod Touch 4 sale $50" and stuff.

[Tormann71]

I was recently at deathmetal.net, and an idea struck me. There, if you have not been a member for a certain amount of time and have not made so many posts, you cannot post links or email adresses. This would altogether eliminate the marketing.

However, this might interfere with new fretters. But, it would give them time to read the tutorials before posting "IMPOSSIBLE SONG OLOLOLOLZ".

Good idea. But it won't eliminate it. People who have been members from the start could post stuff like that. Or long time members. Good idea though.

What I'm trying to prevent is spammers who sign up with titles like "(spam) Shox 360 iPod Touch 4 sale $50" and stuff.

iPod Touch for only $50! I'm on that. lol

Yeah, I don't think long time members will suddenly start spamming us.

[nwru]

I'm making some changes to phpBB over the next few days (late at night) that should help. I've also read that the next version (3.0.6) will include much better CAPTCHA support, so that should keep out the automatic bots (still can't do much about the "manual" spammers).

[Electro Tomato]

I'm making some changes to phpBB over the next few days (late at night) that should help. I've also read that the next version (3.0.6) will include much better CAPTCHA support, so that should keep out the automatic bots (still can't do much about the "manual" spammers).

Yeah, the CAPTCHA's can stop the Autobots. But the deathmetal.net rule would most likely work, because I doubt that a marketing spammer is going to spend much time if they can't post that right away. They'll just move on to another forum.

[Jama7301]

Yeah, the CAPTCHA's can stop the Autobots.

But what will stop the Decepticons?

[Electro Tomato]

Yeah, the CAPTCHA's can stop the Autobots.

But what will stop the Decepticons?

Only the new LG Versa.

[Naemesis]

A "report thread/post" button wouldn't be a good idea?

[Electro Tomato]

We already have that. It's that little circle with a slash through it.

But we recently had a pr0nbot talking about bisexuality facts with PICTURES in the post. That's the kinda thing that shouldn't even be allowed to register.