Spam

[Jon]

We got our first spam poster today. A Chinese supplier. So I tried out the mod tools. They are brilliant on this software! A couple of clicks and you get the option to delete all their threads, posts, ban the ip etc all in one go. Fantastic!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

But then again, if you are Monty Python, SPAM takes on a whole new meaning.

 

[Bee]

Looks like we've had another round. Honestly, Jon, you need to be awake 24 hours a day

 

[Jon]

Bloody spam! Drives me nuts.

 

[Jon]

Nuked that son of a bitch! Ten messages!

 

[Jon]

Every morning, I check The Mind Tavern. Currently, all posts are being moderated. And every day there is at least 1 spam post I have to Reject. Oh the woes of being a administrator. I'm not sure how much spam my other forum gets but probably more than here! In any case, it is such a nuisance!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

As a member of the other forum, I have not noticed that much spam - but you have more people who are some level of admin on that forum. Plus, it is a different base bulletin board type of software, so maybe the spammers are targeting the newer sites. It's a known tactic. We used to see it all the time when I was working with the U.S. Navy. The logic is usually that the newer site is thought to have fewer anti-spamming tools and policies in place so is the easier target.

 

[Jon]

I heavily modified the other site, so there were several hoops to go through. e.g. removing what version of the software it was, adding captcha to signups, min 5 or 10 posts before links can be posted, some back-end stuff linking to stopforumspam, I think there might be a honeypot on there, and obviously the great work there from the mods. There was a time when there was about 50 spam messages a day, all manually cleaned up. That's when I had to get stuck in to do as much automated prevention as possible.

 

[Jon]

Seven lots of spam this morning. Good job everything is pre-moderated.