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Rank: Total Noob Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 1

Hi!
My name is Adam!

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

As is said by your forum name. Still, I, for one, appreciate your introducing yourself with your first post. Hello, my name is Ashton Gray. (Or at least it is here.)

Forum Admin Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 3670

I wouldn't bother trying to talk to him.

He's a spammer most likely since his registered email address is one of the spamming email addresses. Guess he's testing out his new spam bot software or something and decided to manually post.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

Oh really? Well, even if that is the case, I'm glad I responded to his introduction in kind. We shall see what happens next I suppose but thank you for your advice, Ronald, I shall take it to heart.

Rank: Casual Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 35

Shaun Paul-We Be Spammin'.mp3

Rank: Mr. Fabulous Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 502

That makes me wonder,do these spams actually do anything but annoy people? dry

Rank: Casual Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 47

Spamers SUCK! Evil or Very Mad

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

I would'nt go that far, sLaV, but they are a very big nuisance. Is there nothing to be done about them, are we just to "grin and bear it", so to speak?

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Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 4668

It's fine with me and it seems we have a volunteer and I know a certain Gray wolf who would'nt mind taking a bite out of these nuisances. Laughing

Rank: Mr. Fabulous Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 502

If we're down for some action,dog gonna bite! Very Happy

But i dont think there is a counter-measure against spammers Neutral

Forum Admin Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Posts: 3670

Well, there sort of is a counter for Spammers.

We could get an Add-on that checks for first time posters. Usually spammers aren't too bright and don't spend time reading the forum. Their first post is usually a spam.

So enabling a first posting count check for new users filters out the posting from displaying and let's moderators read it and decide if it is spam or worth posting or not.

Another counter would simply just be an human test, such as requiring each person who is signing up for an account to just simply email us and request us to activate their registered account. But more important, state why they're signing up to the forum. Most people (the non-spammers) don't bother reading rules of a website so this might be too complicated for them to figure out.