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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: asldklaksdd on October 31, 2012, 12:32 am

Title: ***CAN ANYTHING BE DONE TO REMOVE THE SPAMMERS?***
Post by: asldklaksdd on October 31, 2012, 12:32 am
Surely there must be something that can be done? Is anything been done or should we just try and ignore it?
Title: Re: ***CAN ANYTHING BE DONE TO REMOVE THE SPAMMERS?***
Post by: nuyt on October 31, 2012, 12:49 am
So genius, you're spamming the forum with threads complaining about people spamming the forum?  ???
Title: Re: ***CAN ANYTHING BE DONE TO REMOVE THE SPAMMERS?***
Post by: angelkiller on October 31, 2012, 12:57 am
It's up to the admins to change policies that block spam. Mods can delete it, but then it comes back.

Suggestions

- New accounts can at most make 1 thread per day
- New accounts must have their threads approved before they get posted
- Make a newbie forum and users must get whitelisted to post in other forums (keeps spam in one forum)
- Building on the last idea, make a Spam sub-forum and users must prove they're human to get whitelisted out of that
- New accounts may not post links (includes in thread titles) (links should get censored out)
- New accounts need to have a limited rate of posts, like no more than 2 posts per hour.
- Better CAPATCHA.
- Email verification

That's just off the top of my head. There are ways to stop it, look at any big forum on the clearnet. How do they do it?