Spam and Porn in the Forums

I want to apologize for the porn spam that has taken over our forums. I just finished clearing out all the bad posts I could. It took me over one and a half hours. Painful stuff. And the worst thing is that most of the links (or at least the few I checked) didn’t even take you to porn. False advertising.

Previously, I was spending 5-10 minutes a day clearing things out as they cropped up, but got sidetracked over the holidays and let it build up.

There has to be a better way to handle the spam in the forums. Something akin to Akismet (which prevents thousands and thousands of spam comments from appearing on the blog). I’ll be looking into this over the next few days and trying my best to keep the forums clean.

So please resume your conversations there. Thanks.

Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007 by Jason

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  • 1. Big Cajun Man  |  January 4th, 2007 at 3:13 pm

    There was porn and I was uninformed!!! -C8j

  • 2. Nick  |  January 4th, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    I found this phpBB mod to be 100% effective on a forum of mine that would get 100+ spammer registrations a day.

    http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=435694

    If someone registering fills in any of the fields like Website URL or Interests (as spammers always do), the registration is quietly thrown away. It also adds a big bold message to the registration form telling users to leave those fields empty. They can add them after registering without a problem.

  • 3. Jason  |  January 4th, 2007 at 7:20 pm

    Thanks for the heads up. I’ll be looking into that.

  • 4. Johnny Pancakes  |  January 12th, 2007 at 7:20 am

    So you clicked on the links why….? haha

  • 5. xztheericzx  |  November 9th, 2007 at 4:05 am

    i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
    forward to participating. hehe unless i get
    too distracted!

    eric

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  • 7. SaimaLayedy  |  January 24th, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    http://josephgibbons.110mb.com/of7747.html

  • 8. Benchiktovchik  |  June 5th, 2008 at 11:14 am

    Приветствую всех!
    У меня такой вопрос,кто что интересное подскажет буду признателен.
    Мы с друзьями собираемся поехать в круиз по просторам России и ближнего зарубежья месяца на два на своих машинах,но не как не можем согласовать маршрут,если у кого уже был опыт такого путешествия,может,что посоветуете.Девчонок с собой не берем,думаем,что во все городах России с этим не будет проблем,если у кого будут рекомендации и в вопросе отдыха с девушками тоже буду признателен.

    С уважением Сеньчик

  • 9. ribkosnow  |  July 14th, 2008 at 10:43 am

    hey , please ban me , im a stupid girl i like to write weird things and to flood ! Thank you , sorry for inconvenience
    bebebe lililil mamam nenen

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