Spammers

[torgosPizza]

Well I just installed a couple antispam extensions for the forum, so hopefully it will cut down on it a lot.

As always please continue to report spam to the mods and we'll take care of it.

If anyone wants to know what extensions I've enabled for use on your own forum, send me a PM.

[MrTorso]

You should add some east coast mods to cover the time differences.

[Henry88]

Any chance once you do get something that helps here, you could, say, give Hor-Riff-ic Productions some pointers on how to prevent forum spammers? Just askin'...

oh dear lord yes ,they need some  real help taking out all  that spam

[torgosPizza]

You should add some east coast mods to cover the time differences.

Tripe is East Coast, I believe. He usually gets to the spammers before I've even woken up

[dignan]

East Coast Mod was my favorite music style out of Norfolk and Suffolk counties in the 60's.

[RoninFox]

Fighting spammers in a forum seems like exterminating ants in a national park.

[Bob]

East Coast Mod was my favorite music style out of Norfolk and Suffolk counties in the 60's.

Damn you beat me to it......

[mrbasehart]

I'm much more East Coast than any of you guys. 

[torgosPizza]

Fighting spammers in a forum seems like exterminating ants in a national park.

It pretty much is. Because we got a bunch of them with links to the actual forum in the posts, I think our site was listed in some spam db somewhere, hence the sudden influx. Luckily I have a few things enabled now, including a link harvester honey pot. Sort of makes my life easier.

Not to jinx it, either, but it looks like the 3 or so anti-spam modifications I installed are working! Huzzah!

[Henry88]

 i agree that we  need more mods from other parts of the country.

[RVR II]

I think Detroit is CST where Tripe is but close enough

[k1]

I think Detroit is CST where Tripe is but close enough

Yeah I think you're correct on that one.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

id be happy to take the job, you know for the half of the year that AZ is off just slightly from west coast time. 

[Watchman]

I don't remember, are there any security measures for new members to weed out the humans from the spambots? Like those CAPCHA(sp?) devices or a question that only a human and/or Rifftrax fan would know the answer to? I used to belong to a music forum where they beefed up registration security by adding a question like "What is the name of this band's debut album?"

[torgosPizza]

I don't remember, are there any security measures for new members to weed out the humans from the spambots? Like those CAPCHA(sp?) devices or a question that only a human and/or Rifftrax fan would know the answer to? I used to belong to a music forum where they beefed up registration security by adding a question like "What is the name of this band's debut album?"

Yeah right now it's just a captcha, but those are easily beaten. I do like the more human ones that ask you to identify something from a lineup, or word problems, those are definitely deterrents. Not sure if there's something like that available for our version of the forum software, though. I looked and didn't see much but can check again - that would definitely help keep them from registering.