Board spam

[betarace]

Is there any way we can tighten up the board signup protocol. These asshole spammers on "watching movies online" are a PITA. Perhaps a question that only a NESBA member or prospective member might know? like: "Who is the biggest DBAG in NESBA?" "DZUM"

 

[avizpls]

well...for starters, I'd have gotten that one wrong.

 

[borislav]

I'll tell you those spam dirtbags getting on my nervs quick with their crap!

 

[R1Baby]

No shit. Tired of seeing it also.

 

[HondaGalToo]

I always click the report button on the upper right of the post. Who on the board then has the permissions to go on and remove it? I report it but no one seems to the go in and delete it. Does only the web administrator have access to delete, or others? There was talk at one point of allowing the CRs access to delete it.

 

[avizpls]

I'd volunteer. I check in often enough.

 

[HondaGalToo]

I've volunteered in the past and gotten no response. Not even a "no thanks".

 

[avizpls]

Maybe theres a hesitation to handing out power to members. Its been a while since I ran a board, but at the time there were different levels of authority that admins could have. I dont think that the power to remove posts MUST go along with, say, editing others posts, banning members, etc... I mean.....its a dirty job, but someones got to do it.

 

[HondaGalToo]

avizpls;274942 wrote: Maybe theres a hesitation to handing out power to members. Its been a while since I ran a board, but at the time there were different levels of authority that admins could have. I dont think that the power to remove posts MUST go along with, say, editing others posts, banning members, etc... I mean.....its a dirty job, but someones got to do it.

That's fine and certainly understandable. Hence why I'd thought I'd heard they were going to give the CRs the authority to delete it.

 

[Gorecki]

I'll just jump in the defense of the admins. I believe this place is already setup for manual approvals and some user accounts are nearly impossible to tell they're bad. I run a few boards like this and my largest safe check has been IP address geographic origin which still isn't 100% reliable.

Frankly, I'm more annoyed my email address had been given to TWISTEDCORE without my approval.

 

[betarace]

agreed - like Judy I would be happy to moderate spam. Originating IP would prob work

 

[Steamer]

Spam

I try to delete them as fast as I see them. But I'm not always on the board on the weekends.

 

[Otto Man]

HondaGalToo;274940 wrote: I've volunteered in the past and gotten no response. Not even a "no thanks".

Make that two! I moderate several other boards also. Not much to it, really. It is fun checking the IP addresses of the spammers to see where they come from.

 

[Psychoholic]

Do this

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/205214-Add-an-extra-question-to-the-registration-to-prevent-bot-registrations

Also install this:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=248470

^this alone has stopped over 49k spam attempts to one of my bigger forums since the end of October. Some still gets through, but it is MUUUUUUCH less.

 

[HondaGalToo]

Steamer;275086 wrote: I try to delete them as fast as I see them. But I'm not always on the board on the weekends.

Does it help you out that I click the "report" button on the upper right of the post? Does that report go to you? If it helps I'll continue to do that.