9 replies to this topic

[amylove]

When someone has time, can we work on getting these deleted?

And can we prevent new members from creating blogs until they have 10 posts?

[Amy Jenna Harper]

I have already banned a lot of people ;

Don't always have the time to do it,but going to work on this

---------- Post added at 10:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:37 PM ----------

I passed 45 min to delete spam and some blogs that have been deleted by theirs authors.AJH

[amylove]

Thought I would alert you to new spam in the blogs... I hate spammers, ruins our wonderful forum
Thanks for your time!

[Mama_Haze]

Thanks - my apioogies for not addressing this sooner - having some personal issues at the moment that have sapped all my attention! x

[amylove]

Oh, it's ok. Sorry if I was a bit of a bitch.

I hope everything is going better in your life.

[Cecilia]

I'm sorry to dig this thread up again, I know you moderators have a lot of work on your hands, but the spam seems to be a growing problem. As I write this, according to the forum's statistics the last 24 hours has seen 4067 blog entries, all of them spam. They mostly seem to be advertising the sale of pharmaceuticals, which is not only illegal, but also potentially dangerous.

I don't have the technical expertise to know how to deal with this problem, but is there a way to make the registration process for the forum more secure?

edit: maybe we can make use of Captcha and confirmation e-mails for new member registrations?

Edited by Cecilia, 08 January 2013 - 03:27 PM.

[Amy Jenna Harper]

Thanks to say Cecilia,
I'am checking all the time,but I have to check again.I have to talk more technically to our moderator and mama

[Cecilia]

Thanks AJH, I know you work very hard getting rid of spammers. Unfortunately it seems to have become a problem that's too big to deal with by just banning the culprits. For every one you ban, 10 or 100 or however many new ones pop up. I really think it might be worth trying to make the registration process more secure and perhaps also introducing something like Captcha for every new blog post. I don't know how feasable that is withing the structure of the forum though, so I'll leave it to the tech experts.

[Amy Jenna Harper]

Yeah I know,I pass so many time to delete,I may banned the IP.
I have to talk to mama

Thanks

[Mama_Haze]

It's on the schedule