grumpystaffordguy
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Just noticed the garyspeed posts on here. Anything we can do to stop this kind of thing happening?
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No, unfortunately. It happens to all Internet forums, and the more popular a forum becomes the more spammers they attract.grumpystaffordguy said:Just noticed the garyspeed posts on here. Anything we can do to stop this kind of thing happening?
So does the sign-up process here (you have to provide the answer to some basic arithmetic); the only spammers that actually get through are actual, real people. The new Forum should make it slightly harder, and it will allow me to set restrictions for new users (e.g. you can only post links/images/etc. once you have made 10 posts), but it won't significantly reduce the number of spammers that get through, unfortunately.tek-monkey said:The new forum makes it harder to spam, as the signup requires human intervention.
Yes, there will be a moderating team so that I don't have to do all the work myself, as The Forum has grown to a size that I never expected so it's becoming too much for one person!supernova said:Any plans to have moderators who between them review the content on an almost continual basis, so that it's much less likely that any of us have to read the rubbish (and eliminate the trolling, too?). Although lately, I notice the inane trolling has ceased for some reason...