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Jason

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Maintenance
« on: January 21, 2012, 12:18:50 PM »
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I am getting tired of the spammers who are running rampant on my forum.
From now on, all new members are subject to approval. I deleted over 100 of these fuckers out of the database today, their sole intention is to spam.

I am behind the push to make spamming a criminal offence punishable with minimum 10 years in jail, that's the only way they will learn that their actions piss people off and waste my resources!
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Re: Maintenance
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2012, 12:52:58 PM »
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Agreed.
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Re: Maintenance
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2012, 01:07:20 PM »
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I've just finished cleaning this place up, the memberlist looks more or less like it did before these spammers came with their botnet. If I've missed a few, please point it out/help by deleting them
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Re: Maintenance
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2012, 11:21:04 AM »
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I just started a forum and had 3 bots from Finland register within 48 hours with no advertising whatsoever. The amount of spam is a bloody nuisance, good job on the cleanup!
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Re: Maintenance
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2012, 01:50:47 PM »
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Making the captcha hard to read and adding more questions to be answered during sign-up seems to have put paid to the problem
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