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Steve Gray
Joined: 17 Aug 2008
Posts: 1569
Location: Geelong
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 Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:07 am Post subject: Scammola and Pornola |
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| Your forum seems to get a lot of porn and some scams, I am on another forum (as an administrator) and we used to get a lot, we upgraded to the latest version of the forum software and it has cut out HEAPS of work for us in managing it, in fact I can't remember the last time I deleted users and their foul posts. |
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Brad Buchel
Site Admin
Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 1386
Location: Sydney
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject: Re - Scammola and Pornola |
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Hi,
We can't upgrade the forum software to the current version as a clean sweep, as some elements currently don't match out custimisations...
Maybe you can PM me the forum you're mentioning, we could implement certain modules perhaps... or maybe change to a different forum software altogether?
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Steve Gray
Joined: 17 Aug 2008
Posts: 1569
Location: Geelong
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject: Re - Scammola and Pornola |
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| Brad check out www.freebusinesstips.com.au/forum if you want to chat to our web guy grab Ross Hill at Thrive web stuff... www.thrivenow.com.au He seems to be able to org most of the stuff for your site... apart from the adverts I don't see much difference... |
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gggraph
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
Posts: 2063
Location: In front of the Computer.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: Re - Scammola and Pornola |
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Over the past few days I'm noticed a new strategy by spammers - registering a new username several times a day and then posting a message every half-hour or so. This appears to be automated, as the subjects and part of the text are random strings with links to the same web sites.
For example, watch what piles up in the chit-chat forum overnight.
I edit one post and Remove it so there is some record of the spammer (probably useless...) then delete any later ones. Sadly, the tempo of these posts is increasing and may need some new Forum process to deal with it...
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Simon
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
Posts: 1856
Location: Sydney
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject: Re - Scammola and Pornola |
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| Maybe it's time to go with manual registration verification by admin. Perhaps a wait period before being allowed to post, 2-3 days. It could harm the usability of the Forum no more than all the spam. |
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gggraph
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
Posts: 2063
Location: In front of the Computer.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:49 am Post subject: Re - Scammola and Pornola |
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... Is there some new anti-spam system kicking in?
I've logged in a couple of times this week and found 30+ spam messages which have promptly vanished while I was watching.
I still can't get the 'Delete Multiple Posts' function to work - has another moderator got it working and nuked the spam? (Hooray!)
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Brad Buchel
Site Admin
Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 1386
Location: Sydney
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:49 am Post subject: Re - Scammola and Pornola |
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Hi Grant,
Yes got that 'red button' working... I'll PM your shortly with details for your access to it.
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Brad Buchel
Site Admin
Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 1386
Location: Sydney
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: Re - Scammola and Pornola |
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I've activated higher restrictions on member ship, hopefully it will stop spammers for the moment...
If it keeps going, I have another idea I will try thats a custom app.
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ocker1
Joined: 27 Sep 2008
Posts: 775
Location: NZ
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| Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:12 am Post subject: Re - Scammola and Pornola |
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Hope you can get it fixed Brad, as I recomende an old lady to the site and
 NOW SHE WONT TALK TO ME !! |
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