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Forums Down Until Spam Problem is Fixed

Jason 25 January 2007 1,164 views 2 Comments

I’ve been trying to stay on top of the spam problem with the forums, but the spammers are fighting harder and harder every day. I delete 25 spam posts and 50 more spring up right away. The last 500 or so posts have come from spammers.

And I understand why there haven’t been many legit posts lately; it’s hard to swim through all that crap.

The forums are unusable in their current state and all the porn and stuff looks really bad for the site. So I’ve taken the forums down until we can get something more stable in there. All of the old user and post data is still in there and should be available again when (if) the forums go live.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your understanding.

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  • Greg said:

    I had the same problem. Eventually I had to make it so that Admins had to approve all new users and banned any user that posted spam…

    Slow solution, but at least effective at stopping spam.

    # 26 January 2007 at 9:27 am
  • Review of FinanceMarkets.co.uk on InvestorGeeks said:

    [...] While I wish each blog post had comments on it, there is a Forums section of the site, which hasn’t yet run into the spam problems we’ve had. The forums are separated into appropriate categories and seem to have some decent use. [...]

    # 28 February 2007 at 4:40 pm

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