Yeah I find it a bit odd that we have such a tight-as$ed swear filter, but no realy way to stop spam bots from posting porn all night long...

I understand that some of these bots are pretty clever, and aside from trolling through every new user request it's basically impossible to prevent but as above, one of those random image generators would reduce the problem.

bojo wrote:

I agree, maybe the "type the character you see below" thing might help.
Its just frustrating, especially when you are at work, or have family/friends near..

WhiteRX wrote:

Hi all,

Well, I log on this morning to find that some miscreant(s) have been loading porn onto our little community.

I think that Admin guys need to take some measures to stop people automatically joining through a bot. Perhaps one of those "Enter the code seen below to proceed" things would be a help.

I've also seen on other forums that once you join up, the Admin guys need to check your signup for legitimacy...

Anyone else agree? I can handle the odd pramacutical post, but when they start throwing of pics of people going at it, it's a bit much.

Anyone else got any other suggestions as to how we can curb these weirdos gettinginto our site?

Sounds good!

I don't mind screening posts.

FOZ13 wrote:

The site actually does have a screening question in the registration process but no sooner does it get programmed and there is a script to work around it.

Half of the anti spam software is installed, thus the move of your user groups about a month ago. To implement the final stages we will be taking it off the air for a night for testing.

It will then screen every post from new users with less than 5 posts or younger than 60 days. If it detects hyperlinks or images the thread / post goes into the moderation que to be manually approved.

oh. okie dokie. my bad.

Well done mods. sounds like this could help a lot. Would mean a bit more work for the mods but if they are up for this then good stuff.

its just soooo annoying, why do they do this other then for annoyance factor.. do they really think people will look at their spam and say "Oh Gee this looks legit and I think Ill buy something from them" I hope the people responsible for creating them all burn!