Report Spam Here

[Crazy Buddhist]

Remember folks.. this was the first spammer in probably the last 100 or so that got through and made a post. Right before posting this, I banned a 0 post spammer. Had a link in his signature. I really wish we could ban the .ru addresses, but it's not just them. A lot of these guys have gmail accounts now.

I've caught a few in the couple of months or so but yes, you guys do do a great job of getting them.

The point with the mail.ru domain is that it seems to be used exclusively by spammers. 50% + of my spammers use them and NO real members of the community do. If you search the database here I would be really shocked if you found a genuine posting modder with a mail.ru address but damn certain they are all over your spam logs.

Of course blocking .ru completely would be a no no, but if you can't find a genuine modder with a mail.ru addy in the DB you will cut spam registrations by blocking mail.ru only.

CrazyBolshevik

[blueonblack]

I have to jump in here to applaud our spam snipers, they are very effective, thanks. Very little destroys the enjoyment of a good forum like spam.

[xmastree]

Here's one for you.

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...ber.php?u=9236

[nevermind1534]

And, which thread does our newest spammer, wecaoniddmab891 chose to spam? This one, of corse. Runescape money, anybody? lol

[xmastree]

Maybe we should use this thread to report spammers...

I'll start:

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...ber.php?u=9268

[Crazy Buddhist]

good plan

[Omega]

TBCS's staff is so heavily overpowered (in a good way) that we tend to catch spammers before they do any damage and tend to catch normal people who are stirring the **** pot not too long after they do it.

Hence, no need for the report button. Also, it's like Jon said, it just e-mails all of us and chances are by the time most of us get to our e-mail, it's gone already.

[progbuddy]

To prevent this from happening, anyone into finding an open-source "Captcha"-like program that supplies a random series of numbers for registration? I think it would save a lot of aches and pains in the long run.

[nevermind1534]

There's recaptcha. You can use it with vbulletin.

[jdbnsn]

To prevent this from happening, anyone into finding an open-source "Captcha"-like program that supplies a random series of numbers for registration? I think it would save a lot of aches and pains in the long run.

Our current system does use this i think.