Fighting Spam

[Janine]

As many of you unfortunatley had to notice, the spam bots are back. Just yesterday I deleted around 30 spammers and I logged on today and there they were again.

So, here's what we're going to do:

- from now on all users wanting to register at the board will have to be approved by me. I activate the accounts which means I can actually delete the spam accounts before they start posting their crap

- I went through all registered users and deleted about 400 inactive posters. There's around 300 more that are not spammers, but since they haven't posted a single time, I'm considering deleting them too

- if you stumble upon a spam posting, please report it to any of the moderators; we're always on the lookout, but something might be overseen

Thanks for your continued support and here's hoping these actions will contain the situation a bit.

[Janine]

Damn, the spam bots are back again. I just deleted over 80 postings.

I installed an add-on to the forum and hope that it helps fight those nasty and stupid bots.

I'm also going through our members database and deleting inactive members and usernames/emails that look suspicious. I'm sorry if I'm accidentally deleting actual members.

[Lorelai]

Thanks Janine!

[tatibsblp]

I had to delete few spams, today and few days ago.

but what I really wanted to say, it's that please do NOT reply spam posts. just contact any of us.
Thank you.

[tatibsblp]

hello all:

Even though I managed some permissions for bots and guests every once and then some spamer shows, some even can post without an account so if you see a spam anywhere in the forum PM me or Carol as soon as possible, we'll take care of that.

thanks.