More spam protection measures.

[lobocursor]

As a moderator myself, in other forums, the biggest problem is when some spam results in some extreme things (like adult images, extreme death images, etc.) and nothing we can do about it but to report, until the moderator arrives to save the day.

Google faces the same trouble with You Tube and flagged videos (zoo, pedoshit, etc.), I wanted to post the link from ArsTechnica but the forum literally wanted to ban me So just look it as "Google worst job ever".

[lobocursor]

How come that ad spammer very recently posted with links in his first post, I thought you had blocked that.

Just we need to look the number of the posts of the user and delete them by hand.

[megaman]

Google faces the same trouble with You Tube and flagged videos (zoo, pedoshit, etc.), I wanted to post the link from ArsTechnica but the forum literally wanted to ban me So just look it as "Google worst job ever".

I am just a volunteer moderator, no one paying my mental anguish, but glad to do it for the users.

Most sites are just to buy pharmacy items, yet some do post as regular users, and it is questionable. They can stay as long as they remove their advertising, but that is how I function, people vary.

[Moonchild]

Most spammers post within a few days of creating their account, usually within minutes - so making it need moderation/approval is a bit more work but overall takes very little time (and it'll never get published/crawled).

Retroactively changing the active group of all 500+ users who have not posted anything yet on the forum is not something I'm going to do ;P

And yes, what prompted me to crack down on it now was a post for a Russian zoo porno site with linked very graphic images, I do not ever want to see that published on this board, not even for 1 minute.

[Rohugh]

Have new members now got their own color code? I see the latest join name in red - had to check in case it was a new admin.

Ah, nevermind, looking at the members list makes it obvious why the color.

[megaman]

One trick devised is to make admin from different parts of the time zones or time of availability.
If you guys got this covered, no problems.

[saint_satin_stain]

I am new. What is definition of spam in a forum? From what I've gleaned, this post could be called spam if some users dont like it.

[lobocursor]

I am new. What is definition of spam in a forum? From what I've gleaned, this post could be called spam if some users dont like it.

Any link to a non-legal web site, p0rn website, warez web site, fraud web site or messages that just try to fool users for do things that harm their computer like install fake add-ons or fake programs.

There is zero tolerance, 1st spam = permanent ban. (and I like a lot to use the hammer ban )

[Moonchild]

I am new. What is definition of spam in a forum? From what I've gleaned, this post could be called spam if some users dont like it.

SPAM in a forum is, in most cases, one of the following:

• Unsolicited commercial posts, either as a new topic or as a comment on existing threads.
• Posts with no other purpose than to provide links to commercial goods
• Posts with no other purpose than to provide links to other sites (SEO spam)
• Posts that may be relevant in content, but have irrelevant links in the text or footer to other sites (SEO spam again)
• At moderator's discretion: Posts that are relevant in content and provide a relevant link, but are otherwise not contributing and with the link being clearly commercial, usually to an untrusted source (e.g. someone posting a link to a niche market, commercial, alternative virus scanner when other people talk about viruses in general - often disguised as "helpful" posts while the person involved in posting this is usually a commercial affiliate). This is the most difficult to discern SPAM as it's carefully engineered. I urge moderators to simply deny these posts and not use the ban hammer, as it may have been unintentional.
• Repeat posts in multiple boards, usually with irrelevant responses, off-topic, or commercial in nature (awareness spamming)

It has nothing to do with people "not liking" a post. There are some very defined indicators for when something is classified as SPAM.