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Martin Weiss

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Of late there's been an increased amount of spam attacks here on REDuser.

:poster_spam: = :sick:

One thing we as users can do is

  1. Never, ever, ever follow the link that is mentioned
  2. Do not reply to the messages - that way they are bumped up on the list again, and get even more exposure
  3. Alert the moderators by pushing the little
    report.gif
    button that is below the user's name in the post. Here you can report abuse.
Dear Moderators, maybe it is time to enforce some system that needs the first 3 posts from new members to be confirmed?
 
Hi Martin, thanks for your spam policing. Unfortunately these twits have discovered Reduser. I like your suggestion that no-one respond, so that these posts disappear quickly from the boards.
 
You should see the porn invasion that has just hit Scarlet User. Unfortunately there is no MOD's around online
 
You read my mind. Typical sleeping through the invasion. - no anti American comment will be uttered by me!
 
wayno said:
has my vote - clever
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Good idea, although two posts should be sufficient to weed out automated spam - less work for moderators?
 
I banned a few new accounts, deleted some posts. looks like one of the other mods cleaned up another bunch.

I like Martin's suggestion, that could be a real step in the right direction. My only concern there is if some lurker who never posts suddenly needs help and makes a post to the help forum, what if no mods are around for a few hours to confirm his post? Probably not a major deal, but could happen.
 
Well, for that we could have a little "lurker forum", where they could just say "hi" and thus get approved.

Maybe there could be a setting that anyone who has been registered for a couple of months, is auto-approved?
 
Martin Weiss said:
Maybe there could be a setting that anyone who has been registered for a couple of months, is auto-approved?
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How many lurkers are members while lurking?

I didn't create an account on either forum until I wanted to delurk...


Regardless, having first two or three posts verified is probably not a bad idea.


As an alternative, ban posting of pictures to the forums until the user has posted a few text-only posts, pending mod approval?
 
I think also the idea with the first couple of post getting approval is a good solution, they do it like that on creative cow and i didn´t see any spam there.

Manuel
 
hopefully you guys have noticed an improvement over the last 24 hours?

those bots were nasty...
 
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