Further to this these are actual people doing manual registrations. There has been an influx of spammers over the last few days and if they post please hit the "report bad post button" and it will notify us of it

Sam;158217 wrote:

Where is the report bad post button???

Ahhhh there it is, i usually check the site early morn before work and they seem to be all sitting as new posts about then so ill report em as i see em in the morning mate

Spam is annoying

Dirty no good spammers. I noticed a hole bunch the other week (which I reported cos I'm a good little fella). Same happened to another site which I best not mention for fear of the ban stick.

988OXR;161334 wrote:

Rick Nath Nic or any other Mod.


Whats the f**king deal with the Gen 2 section getting Spammed like crazy of late?????? I've been reporting that **** and its still there???? Have a look in Aaron's Halfcut advice thread.


Can we make it so from now on new users need a certain type of email address. I'm refering to the method in which Rexnet works. Can't use a yahoo or hotmail address. Instead you need a proper one like bigpond or optusnet etc etc.

CodeBurn3r;165337 wrote:

jebus we just got owned!
we need some sorta question to answer at registration that you need to look up or aussies should know (although i know we have some UK and Caribbean users)

Yeah I run another forum where we have a couple of different methods for trying to prevent automated signups. I strongly suspect that they're using human assistance Fags

hawks123;165384 wrote:

Can't you just ban certain words.  If any of those words are in the the thread name then it doesn't get posted?

Come on guys, this is starting to get a bit ridiculous.  Something needs to be done about this. What does someone need to do in order to become a member on here???? Clicking on a picture is in my opinion, a sh1thouse idea. As soon as you do that, all thats needed are a few little details before you can start spamming up the joint. Where's the "Your profile will be reviewed before you are allowed to post" kind of ideas. Maybe send a PM, see what the reply is like, give them some more tests before they can start posting. I realise its going to be more stuffing around, but at the end of the day, it will keep that crap out of the forums. I know that there is alot more spam in here that we peasants don't see that mods do, and for that well done on hiding it/deleting it etc etc. So lets see what we can get done about this.

Hi,

Mate, I am deleting constantly. It has never been this bad before.

The trouble is, these spammers are actual people - very, very hard to combat.

We've all thrown our hands up in the air, but this new wave of actual 'human spam' is very difficult to counter.

Any suggestions will be received with open arms!!!

Cheers,
Nik

Hi Nath,

Great idea mate, there's enough of us to filter the new members.

Thumbs up!

Cheers,
Nik