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gabriel.dac

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Stop spam
« on: March 08, 2014, 08:11:58 AM »
the US discussion forums has just been flooded with a more than a dozen of spam threads about Nike or something. Is there anything we can do about that? We should make registering more difficult or something.

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Re: Stop spam
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2014, 11:01:54 AM »
gabriel you're right I can not do more with these spam!

Bla

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Re: Stop spam
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2014, 11:02:27 AM »
The best thing you can do when you see spam is to avoid replying to the topic or clicking their links (and thus give it unworthy attention) and just click Report to moderator. One time per spambot user is enough (so if you see multiple spam posts by one user, you only need to do it for one of its messages).

Besides from that, yes, some tighter registration controls could be nice, but as far as I know it's hard to implement on the forum.
« Last Edit: March 08, 2014, 11:07:05 AM by Bla »

WitheHole18

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Re: Stop spam
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2014, 11:08:41 AM »
How can I take screenshots? I just can not do it, if you do not want to answer me in this post go to the topic of the discussion and answer me

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Re: Stop spam
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2014, 11:14:25 AM »
How can I take screenshots? I just can not do it, if you do not want to answer me in this post go to the topic of the discussion and answer me
I've replied here:
http://universesandbox.com/forum/index.php/topic,11303.msg118202.html#msg118202

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Re: Stop spam
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2014, 06:05:57 PM »
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« Last Edit: December 03, 2014, 08:14:41 PM by phinehas »

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Re: Stop spam
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2014, 12:17:14 AM »
Dan! Please! God! Someone! Stop! The! Spam! I'M DROWNING IN SPAM!!!

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Re: Stop spam
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2014, 05:30:56 AM »
We'll be upgrading the forums next week to add anti-bot measures.

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Re: Stop spam
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2014, 12:03:17 PM »
We'll be upgrading the forums next week to add anti-bot measures.

Amazing!

smf is at 2.0.7 while US forum is running on 1.1.15

I agree, this spam is preventable.

Agreed!

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Re: Stop spam
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2014, 11:34:02 AM »
My upgrade when

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Re: Stop spam
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2014, 02:15:43 PM »
omg

gabriel.dac

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Re: Stop spam
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2014, 08:14:14 PM »
Indeed, it seems like the spam is gone. At least for now