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Att: Hodji Spammers Must D..!

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    • September 29, 2018 at 3:30 pm
    MelanomaMike
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    You F…in’ spammer scamers need to get the the Hell out of our website! Every damn Saturday i wake up to your Snake Oil scams..F… Off!
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      • September 29, 2018 at 9:59 pm
      aldrichdesigner
      Participant

      AMEN! You tell 'em Mike, I can't stand how much there is with how much recaptcha that I'm constantly required to deal with. I understand that they don't want to moderate the forums because then it becomes a bigger hassle for both those submitting, conversations aren't instant and they almost need to be.

       

      But I agree with you Mike, they got to go. The site admins need to figure out a better solution than a recaptcha box. I would start tracking IP's, usernames etc and hit the jokers with the ban hammer.

      Here is an idea, get rid of anonymous posting, that would cut in half at least.

        • October 1, 2018 at 3:29 pm
        Janner
        Participant

        Anonymous posters are NOT anonymous to the admins.  It's only on the BB display that you don't see their name but they had to register as a user to post. 

        • October 1, 2018 at 4:05 pm
        bjeans
        Participant

        It’s too large a problem to ban individual IPs. They tend to be in geographic clumps that can be found and that sometimes is a key, or it was on an international board I helped moderate. Large swaths were set up so the spammers weren’t able to register. 

      • September 30, 2018 at 12:25 am
      Linny
      Participant

      They are real dirtbags. Blocking user names doesn't help because they just set up new accounts. Also blocking IP addresses is futile because they forge IP addresses. The only thing the reCAPTCHA thingie does is prevent a bot from generating spam messages. It doesn't prevent a team of these dirtbags from posting spam messages using the same user ID. Though reCA{TCHA has helped, this forum needs a better solution than what we have.

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