Improved forum defense against spammers

[blueznl]

Lately the amount of spam is getting annoying. Is there a way to improve the board's resilience against spam?

[c4s]

I think there are some forum addons, see the last thread I asked for it: http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 17&t=43135

If I remember correctly freak said in the german forum that the current amount of spam is successfully possible to handle with the exclamation button so I think they don't want to change it for now...

[nco2k]

yes please! its extremely annoying. -.-

c ya,
nco2k

[flaith]

Or maybe a new section "Spam" like in Arduino's forum (http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaB ... web_system)

[DarkDragon]

This section would be useless. You can report spam through the exclamationmark at the right bottom of each post.

[flaith]

I know about the report button, but with the section, Moderators/administrators of the forum did not received several reports where you have only one report in the spam section.

[Rings]

exclamation marks are just fine.

[DarkDragon]

I know about the report button, but with the section, Moderators/administrators of the forum did not received several reports where you have only one report in the spam section.

I can't understand you. You say "with the reportbutton the moderators get all postings and with the section they would only receive one report for a group of spampostings" which would be far more difficult for the moderators and the users of this forum to handle.

[flaith]

Never mind! My contribution doesn't matter

[blueznl]

I understand the amount isn't too much to deal with it manually, it's the annoyance it causes...

[nco2k]

getting spam every single day is something that shouldnt be ignored, if you ask me. i cant remember when was the last time i visited this forum, without running into spam. and since this forum is so vulnerable, it will get worse and worse, if you continue ignoring it.

c ya,
nco2k

[PB]

> exclamation marks are just fine

Hardly. I was able to view porn here the other day.

[skywalk]

> exclamation marks are just fine

Hardly. I was able to view porn here the other day.

And why no sharing?

[rsts]

Since this is a "feature request", we should have Fred/freak stop work on PB and work on a spam filter?

I'd rather use the ! flag.

cheers

[IdeasVacuum]

I think the ! Flag is good enough, especially now I know that it is there. Perhaps more of the regular forum visitors could be given the right to delete spam, so that it can be taken out more quickly.