Spammers

[easy]

Hey earlybay, i see that the old spam traffic is on the increase, i.e. spam members. Do you just delete them?

we do on our site, its a pain in a**e but i dont know what else you can do.

 

[Guest]

depends on your forum software, but theres not alot you can do except enable admin activation which means doin it all manually.

 

[Shaggy]

yeah that easy is such a spammer :twisted:

 

[Anonymous]

I know its a pain - I just have activation set to manual so I have to 'vet' every registration - every now and then delete all the spammers ... no real answer to it I guess ...

 

[Justin & Muttley]

I'm curious, how can you tell that they're spammers?

 

[Shaggy]

I was thinking that, please do tell

 

[Scampi]

Yeah, how do you tell there spammers?

 

[slammedkustom]

Spammer 'Spa-am-er'_"one who enjoys the pork based delights of the Spam company, often ate raw or fried" To have spam or serve spam would involve a "spammer"
To be "spammed" 'spa-mm-ed' involves one individual slapping their forehand against a second persons forehead while quoting "Spam!" the second person would be the "spammed" while the first would be the "spammer"

I found that in the dictonary, or my head one of the two... so thats the official definition of a spammer. hope that helps guys? :wink:

 

[easy]

usually spammers have nonsense log on names (not just funny ones) and they usually have no details apart from a website link. Never click on the link as it will ruin your machine. :shock:

 

[Guest]

login in names are usually auto generated like easy says but the emails are a give away, something like [email protected] etc. if its hotmail, gmail etc you know its not a faker.

 

[Anonymous]

Easier than that for this forum as I have changed some of the profile fields (eg. year of van) - spammers just put rubbish in there (that field by default is used for occupation) so they just put some stupid occupation in there - anyone genuine actually reading the screen sees the difference ...

 

[dubberdaz]

Nice one :wink: