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18-03.-2008, 04:14 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 139
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Help stop the spam
If you have a link to cyclingforums on your personal web page, remove it. The more links there are to cyclingforums, the higher up they appear on searches and the more it becomes worthwhile to spam the forums. I realize this is probably too little too late at this point, but please remove any public links you have to these forums.
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18-03.-2008, 02:19 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Portland, ME
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Re: Help stop the spam
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Perhaps they're just looking for people with the necessary professional skills, i.e mcse, a+, net+, experience with databases, etc who would be willing to volunteer some of their time. |
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18-03.-2008, 08:06 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 464
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Re: Help stop the spam
The problem is that people click on the spammer links and view their "messages`"
This means that it is worthwhile for the spammers to keep doing this. If there were big fat zeros next to every spam post in the number of views column they would probably give up. But the fact is some people are apparantly intersted or curious and that give these bastards reason to continue. |
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19-03.-2008, 12:41 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Kansas City, USA
Posts: 3,560
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Re: Help stop the spam
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You have to view the message in order to report it as spam. I used to do that for a while when I was still deluded that it might help. In reality, I seriously doubt anyone is logging in to see if their spam threads are getting any views. That's all auto-spam from spamming programs. |
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19-03.-2008, 04:12 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 29
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Re: Help stop the spam
does anyone know who runs this forum, or who the mods are supposed to be?
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19-03.-2008, 08:01 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 822
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Re: Help stop the spam
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No one. It runs itself. |
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19-03.-2008, 02:11 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 9
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Re: Help stop the spam
Spam isn't an issue of the users doing anything, its the lack of security taken during registration.
Oddly Enough I thought VBulletin was better at that, I would expect this from phpBB2
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