07-25-2006, 02:30 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Spammers Suck - Are Forum Changes Required?
I'm just plain sick and tired of spammers. It has been gradually getting worse for a while now, until last night when it just got ugly. Last night we got hit with about 200 spam forum messages. These posts were not like the rest. This spammer decided to reply to existing posts with his spam. The result is numerous emails being sent out to you, are members, about a reply being posted to a specific thread. I don't know about you but I have over 150 of them in my inbox. :evil: So the spam didn't just hit the server, it hit your inbox too. Rocco spent a incredible amount of time last night cleaning up all the spam. (Thanks Rocco! :way to go: ) So if you clicked on one of those emails and saw a post not found message, that is why.I really like the way the forum is currently setup and run. There's a lot of good people here and I don't like the thought of changing things. However, as I said earlier, I'm just plain sick of the spam. I already spend too much time each day dealing with the spam messages. The more time I spend dealing with spam, the less time I can spend finding news, writing reviews, and answering (attempting, anyway) your questions in the forums. There's a couple things we can change to try and block the spam before it gets into the forum. I would like to know your thoughts on these, or other means you might have in mind to help curb the spam. Try to keep in mind the experience for a first time visitor to the site. We don't want to drive anyone away, except the spammers.  I'm not going to make any promises about what if any, changes will be made. But I do want to know how you all feel about this.
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