Report a suspected Spammer V2.0

[The_Hawk]

If you see something that looks or smells like spiced ham, post up a link in this thread (or better yet, use the report post button at the bottom left of the post itself, it looks like this:


Either way the moderator team will jump on it ASAP.

Thanks.

[gecko2k]

was that always there? I've been looking for that one for a while now?! lol

[Corey_R]

Yes, it's always been there

[brimway]

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/forums/f40/free-quick-downloads-free-music-apps-android-66044.html

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/forums/f40/stand-up-comedy-dvd-stuffed-lightning-mcqueen-66046.html

[brimway]

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/forums/f40/disneyland-paris-2011-discount-card-business-66123.html

[Domel]

Lots of spam here:

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/forums/f40/glossary-unfamiliar-terminology-6161-4.html

[The_Hawk]

Lots of spam here:

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/foru...gy-6161-4.html

Thanks, killed em all

Seems they have found a way around the new filtering since there has been a bunch more spammers recently

[Blitzen]

This new influx of spam is huge!! I'm here in the USA right now (where it seems to be coming from), and as fast as I report it, it's comes in!!

[Candyman]

The Report button has flood control (60 sec) and with the huge number of spammers getting through lately, makes it difficult to report them.

They are all pretty obvious to spot though, a search using filters in admin account should sort them out pretty easily.

[Domel]

Yep, another one:

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/forums/f40/importing-l-h-drive-cars-66192.html#post756928

[kaanage]

Would it reduce the workload for moderators if new users could only create and post a single introduction thread item until they were vetted by the moderators?

Hopefully, the introduction post would be easily seen as legitimate or spam. If a new user has to wait a few hours before being able to post in general areas, then I don't think that is too bad a price to pay.

Or can Captcha be implemented for creating a user account and maybe the 1st 5 posts by a new user?

[The_Hawk]

Yes, many of those things are possible and some have even been used before.

It's a hard balance between keeping new users happy by not putting draconian restrictions on them as well as weeding out the spammers.

We might just have to go back to what we used to do and restrict new users to only be able to post in the newbies section for their first post. This approach didn't stop the spam, but at least it kept it all in one place which made it much easier to identify and clean up. This requirement was dropped because had different methods in place which seemed to work at about 99.9% … sadly that doesn't seem to be the case anymore

Long story short, I'm looking into it.

[kaanage]

Heck, I had to wait when I joined and it was no big deal.

What you guys have to wade through is ridiculous and I think the legitimate users would be glad to trade off having to wait a bit when joining up vs seeing all the spam posts everywhere when checking for new posts.

[dylan8]

Heck, I had to wait when I joined and it was no big deal.

What you guys have to wade through is ridiculous and I think the legitimate users would be glad to trade off having to wait a bit when joining up vs seeing all the spam posts everywhere when checking for new posts.

this. making people post in the intro section before they can proceed anywhere should make your lives easier surely...
people that complain about steps like that tend to be a PITA anyway on the forum

[greasykitchen]

This person appears to be a spammist: View Profile: emma11 - VWWatercooled Australia