If you are a newbie here, welcome! We hope you stay and add to the discussion.
But for you SEO and link spammers out there, if you post a spam link in a reply or in your signature, your account and whatever posts you've made will be deleted forthwith, PDQ and post haste. If you think tapping out a somewhat cogent sentence or two will allow you to post link spam, it won't, you'll waste a lot of your time for nothing – it only takes me a couple seconds to delete you.
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Post spam and be deleted!
Post spam and be deleted!
by Pops » Mon 21 May 2012, 17:26:47
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!
by Rod_Cloutier » Mon 21 May 2012, 18:52:17
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f you think tapping out a somewhat cogent sentence or two will allow you to post link spam,
Most of them can't post a 'cogent sentence or two', it's sad really!
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!
by Pops » Wed 06 Jun 2012, 13:46:07
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Repent', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f you think tapping out a somewhat cogent sentence or two will allow you to post link spam,
Most of them can't post a 'cogent sentence or two', it's sad really!
Seems so.
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!
by davep » Wed 06 Jun 2012, 15:13:35
I think the problem has got far worse since google tweaked its algorithms, making irrelevant linking a black mark. Now bots or people are pretending to talk about a subject and linking to their site in that context.
Anyway, I'm now zapping at least 20 a day.
Anyway, I'm now zapping at least 20 a day.
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!
by SeaGypsy » Tue 12 Jun 2012, 00:15:52
Hi Mods, admin, other members and spammers. We really need more done about this. It's getting worse every day lately.
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!
by SeaGypsy » Tue 12 Jun 2012, 04:31:50
More and more and more, is it really that hard to just change the rules?
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!
by dolanbaker » Tue 12 Jun 2012, 04:43:46
Yes, a tide of spam is flowing in!
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
Hungrymoggy "I am now predicting that Europe will NUKE ITSELF sometime in the first week of January"
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!
by mattduke » Tue 12 Jun 2012, 08:22:14
Raise the price of joining somehow. Make the joining process take more time. Require a $1 donation to paypal. If a person is truly interested in joining the conversation it won't matter to them. But spammers won't be as willing.
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!
by dolanbaker » Tue 12 Jun 2012, 09:33:22
The simplest solution is to make the first five or ten posts pre moderated, very few spammers (if any) would be willing to engage in multiple conversations to gain the moderators trust before posting spam.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.:Anonymous
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
Hungrymoggy "I am now predicting that Europe will NUKE ITSELF sometime in the first week of January"
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
Hungrymoggy "I am now predicting that Europe will NUKE ITSELF sometime in the first week of January"
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!
by Pops » Tue 12 Jun 2012, 09:46:35
I think I agree with pre-moderation, especially as slow as the site is nowadays. It's at least 4 clicks to delete a spammer. I'd at least feel like my time is better spent clicking through some posts to be approved than deleting spam. Especially if there is a warning before posting.
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-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!
by davep » Tue 12 Jun 2012, 10:26:35
We use pre-moderation for new users on another site I moderate, and it works well.
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Re: Post spam and be deleted!
by Tanada » Tue 12 Jun 2012, 19:42:07
Pre moderation has my approval, I am sick of wasting 15 to 30 minutes of my life every day trying to clear out the spam when I log on early in the AM.
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Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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