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Spam and Porn in the Forums

4 January 2007 13,869 views 8 Comments

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.

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  • Big Cajun Man said:

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

    # 4 January 2007 at 3:13 pm
  • Nick said:

    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.

    # 4 January 2007 at 6:31 pm
  • Jason (author) said:

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

    # 4 January 2007 at 7:20 pm
  • Johnny Pancakes said:

    So you clicked on the links why….? haha

    # 12 January 2007 at 7:20 am
  • xztheericzx said:

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

    eric

    # 9 November 2007 at 4:05 am
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    # 2 January 2008 at 9:49 pm
  • SaimaLayedy said:

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

    # 24 January 2008 at 7:21 pm
  • Benchiktovchik said:

    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

    # 5 June 2008 at 11:14 am