PLEASE DON'T REPLY TO SPAM POSTS!

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:29 pm

It's easier for the mods to delete a post if there are no replies to it.

GeoTrail · Post by **GeoTrail** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:44 pm

You mean like this thread?

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:53 pm

Is this thread spam?

Oops, shouldn't of replied to it.

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:25 pm

DoH !!!!

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:13 am

Lets hope people read the heading and make it easier for the Mod's.

Joakim Christiansen · Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:18 am

Why is it easier?

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:28 am

It's been said loads of times but here goes again, if no-one replies to a message then it can be removed in a couple of clicks, if someone does reply then the work to remove the post becomes alot harder with other peoples messages needing to be removed.

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:30 am

Derek wrote:It's been said loads of times but here goes again, if no-one replies to a message then it can be removed in a couple of clicks, if someone does reply then the work to remove the post becomes alot harder with other peoples messages needing to be removed.

Yet another reason why phpBB sucks

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:56 pm

Brice Manuel wrote:Yet another reason why phpBB sucks

Yeah... :roll:

With Invision Power Board it doesn't matter if anyone replies or not, the number of steps needed to delete a thread is the same....

Select thread(s)
Choose delete
Apply to selected thread(s)
Done!

Doesn't matter if the thead has only one post or a hundred.

Of course Invision Power Board isn't free, so I guess you get what you pay for....

But still, why reply anyway, it's just going to be deleted....

Joakim Christiansen · Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:59 pm

Brice Manuel wrote:Yet another reason why phpBB sucks

Guess I have to agree there, maybe they make it easier in the new version. Hope they also make their spam protection better, because damn I hate these messages I get in my forum each day...

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:25 pm

I really don't understand the Hassel about this arf..arf..arf

In the german Forums wich is also phpBB there is no problem to delete a complete topic with just one click, no matter how many answers are there.
and that was already before the last update, and before the last update we had no captcha...
so, I presume it's not a problem with phpBB itself, but with the Templates used.

milan1612 · Post by **milan1612** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:34 pm

Read, understood, accepted

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:52 pm

Might be the version used. I notice the copyright on this version says 2005 so its about two years old unless the phpBB devs haven't been updating that.

They do have captcha but it looks pretty basic, lots of contrast between the characters and the background and the characters aren't too mangled.

A spambot with fairly current OCR could probably get past it.

Post by **Berikco** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:09 pm

A thread can be deleted with 2 klicks, replys or not..no problem.

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:49 pm

Berikco wrote:A thread can be deleted with 2 klicks, replys or not..no problem.

@netmaestro

What forum software are you using?

Maybe you need an upgrade!