Idiot Spammers

[yarisugi]

I need to stop the spam!

[Foot]

Woo, woo can we vote on it?
I already put my vote in,
NO.

[BEEF]

The spam has gotten bad lately so anything that could help with that would be greatly appreciated.

[mazilla]

Make me a mod, I will rule with an iron fist.

[Astroman]

The best thing to do is report all the spam posts. This spam seems to come in waves and will slow soon. If mods had the power to ban IP addresses it would help. Lately its coming from the same IP range.

[bronsin]

OK.

Unplug the connector above the alternator that works the VVT. Then you wont have VVT.

Hows that for a mod?

[WeeYari]

Not that anyone ever goes there, but have you seen the spam in the blogs? For the past few months, it can range from 40ish to 80ish entries per day.

[why?]

you mean someone actually looks at the blogs? I thought they were reserved for spam on all these forums.

[Astroman]

No one reports the spam in the blogs. I looked last year and cleaned a bunch up. So yeah, report the spam blogs too, even if it's through a PM to a mod.

[CrankyOldMan]

It's not tapering off. I'm doing what I can to report, but I have to wait 60 seconds between reports. It would be nice if there was a way to ignore posts from a specific user when searching for new posts.

[Septembersrain]

I think that new people who register here should be required to do 10 topic replies before being able to post a new topic.
If they get a report of spam on any of those topic replies, Instant ban.

That's just my thought on it.

[CTScott]

It really is getting ridiculous. I am starting to turn off all email notifications, as I can't stand having piles of email every morning due to the spamming.

[CrankyOldMan]

The problem is that the spam is coming as replies, not always new threads, hence CTScott's problem. It's also not spam that appears to serve a purpose other than flooding the server...

[BEEF]

You could reject any posts that have links in them until 10 posts or so. I know many forums that have that sort of thing.

I don't want this to be a forum that nobody wants to be a member of because of the requirements to be a member but I also don't want this forum to taper off because of spam everywhere either.

If CT were to leave, we would be losing quite an asset. I am sure there are others that have thought the same thing (about lessening their involvement in some way).

[47_MasoN_47]

It does get rather annoying. I used to use the email alerts a fair bit but, like CT, I've also turned them off because the spam gets so aggravating.

[Astroman]

We're doing our best but please keep reporting the spam. Only our two admins can change the registration process. What would be nice is on new posters the first posts had to be approved for the first few then auto approval after that. I've experienced this on another forum and it works! Also I still can't moderate anything in the 3rd gen area. I can ban them though.

[CrankyOldMan]

Originally Posted by BEEF

I don't want this to be a forum that nobody wants to be a member of because of the requirements to be a member but I also don't want this forum to taper off because of spam everywhere either.

If CT were to leave, we would be losing quite an asset. I am sure there are others that have thought the same thing (about lessening their involvement in some way).

Agreed. There are other yaris-friendly forums, but there's more focused information here, as well as highly knowledgeable members. The up side to the other forums is that they are regularly attended by admins and/or people that have the ability to directly curb the spam (or so it seems).

[Amdkt7]

What is up with all the spam attacks? It seems like a totally pointless waste of time. Nobody actually reads their nonsense, and hardly gets any views before the mods take them down.


Why do they bother?