yeh, i tried to figure out how to report these spam threads to the mods but didn't readily figure it out.
Maybe I missed a discussion of why those spam topics were moved into this board. Can we kill those?
yeh, i tried to figure out how to report these spam threads to the mods but didn't readily figure it out.
Willywoody,
You can report spam, or any other post that violates our posting guidelines, to the moderators by clicking the little icon at the top right of a message. It looks like an exclamation point inside a red-bordered triangle. That'll send an email to the moderators, and one of us should respond pretty quickly. When we see a spam thread, we delete it and ban the user permanently.
We're looking at something to stop the bots, but it's going to take some effort from the admins, some of whom are a little distracted just now.
JBDuke
Andre Dawkins: “People ask me if I can still shoot, and I ask them if they can still breathe. That’s kind of the same thing.”
Also, the spam wasn't moved to the Off-Topic Board. For whatever reason, this is where the bots choose to put their spam.
Is there a captcha feature for vBulletin? A quick google search seems to say yes, although i can't find any good documentation on it.
Is it just me, or does it appear that one of the guys who originally spammed on this board has just decided to go about it a slightly different way now? He started a new thread which includes his website in it, and keeps bumping the thread with small posts. Not only that, but the other poster in the thread hadn't posted before, either.
Here are a couple of discussions on containing spam, the first is vbulletin specific, the second is more general (and linked from the first post of the former):
http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=28464
http://www.securitywatch.co.uk/forum...mming-222.html
Hope that is helpful.
good tips.
You should see some progress against spam soon.
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Some questions cannot be answered
Who’s gonna bury who
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Yeah, I lied.
There was some mod discussion about banning whole domains. We ended up not doing it yet.
Two isn't bad.
A movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it.
---Roger Ebert
Some questions cannot be answered
Who’s gonna bury who
We need a love like Johnny, Johnny and June
---Over the Rhine