Jul 19
2007just say no to evil message board spammers!
Filed Under (Stitching the Night Away) by Loretta on 19-07-2007
Spammers ~ ugh grrr evil. I get spam registration on the STNA message board all the time, it’s very annoying. I had to turn on the admin approval for new registrations so I could weed them out and keep spam off the boards. Basically they register, and include the link in the profile where it lets you fill in your website info. It’s a blackhat seo technique (and one that doesn’t even work that well!)
I fell behind on the cleaning out the list, even with the help of of my moderators keeping an eye on things. We’ve sorted through thousands of these things this week and I’m getting a ratio of 2 or 3 actual members for every hundred spam registrations (sometimes I get 100 or more spam registrations in a day!)
My friend Angela is looking up some stuff that might help make the forum spam free, she’s great with PHP stuff. Thank goodness, without her the boards would be total crap and I would have given up and deleted them ages ago. Hopefully our boards stay spam free and keep growing.
Sorry if this has caused anyone a delayed login to the boards recently! And a big welcome to all our newest message board members.
Hear that spammers? We don’t like you and we have blocked from access so stop trying! GO AWAY SPAMMERS!
I am so tired of spam and now there is all this software that allows the spammers to submit about a million spam comments in 30 seconds. I used to blog at one of the well known blogging communities. I went there for the first time in months and there were over 1,000 comment links to porn sites.