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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2016, 05:47:45 pm »
May be that's not a bad suggestion - get them to complete ten VW related questions,that's work and could well put them off since it's not porn related?

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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2016, 05:51:41 pm »
Eh? :thinking:

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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2016, 06:01:58 pm »
I don't think making any changes to sign up will stop it.

Don't think its a bot someone is manually filling out the form.


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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2016, 06:03:45 pm »
I don't think making any changes to sign up will stop it.

Don't think its a bot someone is manually filling out the form.

Are you still blocking IP addresses etc? Where is the spam coming from which country? Just block access for those countries

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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2016, 06:28:42 pm »

I've been trying to ban the users by ip, user name, the lot

Strong effort if they're actually repeatedly coming back and making so many posts!

Does the user see the post just no one else?

They may think they're successfully posting if so

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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2016, 06:33:45 pm »
The user and admin/mods will see the posts.

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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2016, 08:06:33 pm »
I don't think making any changes to sign up will stop it.

Don't think its a bot someone is manually filling out the form.

Are you still blocking IP addresses etc? Where is the spam coming from which country? Just block access for those countries

I still block the ip address etc but as Mike mentioned at the minute thier is a lot

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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2016, 08:22:12 pm »
I spent a couple of hours trying to limit the number of posts for newbies. Failed  :sad1:

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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2016, 10:01:25 pm »
I don't know if it shows before it's been approved but there's been loads

I've deleted 60-70posts some mornings  :fighting:

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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #24 on: April 04, 2016, 10:02:22 pm »
I don't think making any changes to sign up will stop it.

Don't think its a bot someone is manually filling out the form.

Are you still blocking IP addresses etc? Where is the spam coming from which country? Just block access for those countries

I still block the ip address etc but as Mike mentioned at the minute thier is a lot

I post a lot of expletives - I bl00dy hope they can see that message  :grin:
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #25 on: April 04, 2016, 10:08:46 pm »
Do they originate from certain countries? Is so, you can get the host (United hosting) to block them from access to the domain fullstop

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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #26 on: April 04, 2016, 10:10:36 pm »
I don't know if it shows before it's been approved but there's been loads

I've deleted 60-70posts some mornings  :fighting:



Yup :(

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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #27 on: April 04, 2016, 10:29:21 pm »
Watch "Monty Python - Spam" on YouTube

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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #28 on: April 04, 2016, 10:35:02 pm »
I don't know if it shows before it's been approved but there's been loads

I've deleted 60-70posts some mornings  :fighting:



Yup :(


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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #29 on: April 04, 2016, 10:38:27 pm »
I don't know if it shows before it's been approved but there's been loads

I've deleted 60-70posts some mornings  :fighting:



Yup :(


I blame the new mod team... never got that much when I was in command.  :star:

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