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Removing the spammer

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Postby wibadgervbfan on August 3rd, 2012, 5:53 pm
Is there a way that an admin. can get rid of the spammer. It's annoying when every page seems to be updated by them. I've reported several posts and nothing has happened yet.
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Postby wibadgervbfan on August 3rd, 2012, 8:17 pm
Sorry, thought I clicked on the problems section.

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Postby CstrFan512 on August 3rd, 2012, 8:51 pm
I sent a PM to an admin and it's been taken care of by him
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Postby wibadgervbfan on August 3rd, 2012, 9:05 pm
Thanks. I'm sure I wasn't the only one really annoyed by the spammer.
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Postby wibadgervbfan on August 3rd, 2012, 9:44 pm
CstrFan512 wrote:I sent a PM to an admin and it's been taken care of by him

I guess not yet. 9 new in the off topic. Another post in the Wisconsin State Fair thread.
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Postby Galvan on August 5th, 2012, 6:29 pm
I have removed the spammer, I was away the last few days. Sorry about that.
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Postby wibadgervbfan on August 5th, 2012, 7:21 pm
Galvan316 wrote:I have removed the spammer, I was away the last few days. Sorry about that.

Thanks
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Postby ViperFTW on August 10th, 2012, 2:15 pm
The "Removing the spammer" thread has been spammed...oh the irony.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on August 10th, 2012, 3:22 pm
I hope all of the people on this site are smart enough to know all of these "4 free Six Flags tickets" things are scams :lol:
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Postby ViperFTW on August 18th, 2012, 10:44 am
Holy spam batman! :shock: A ton of new threads were added for products today.
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Postby Coaster Justin on August 18th, 2012, 1:28 pm
And he has another thread that has yet to be deleted.


I think Galvan should let us be able to close topics/ Bad people.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on August 18th, 2012, 1:36 pm
^ That has the potential to get really bad, really fast just making every member a moderator.
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Postby Ilovthevu' on August 18th, 2012, 2:08 pm
When you sign up for this site, do you have one of those you have to type a certain goofy word, so than a spam bot wouldn't be able to sign up for that?
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Postby DejaVu2001 on August 18th, 2012, 2:24 pm
^ That worked for a while. As anti-spam technology improves, so does spamming technology.
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Postby Coaster Justin on August 18th, 2012, 3:42 pm
How about you need to do 100 posts before you can start a topic?
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Postby tribar on August 18th, 2012, 11:27 pm
^That's not a bad idea. Whatever happned to the first 5 posts having to be approved by a admin or mod and your username being yellow?
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Postby ViperFTW on August 19th, 2012, 12:14 pm
Has spam ever been this frequent before? Or is it normally just a once in a while thing?
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Postby DejaVu2001 on August 19th, 2012, 1:25 pm
^ It seems to happen in waves. There won't be any for a while, and then there will be a bunch of spambots.
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Postby [jonrev] on August 20th, 2012, 9:47 pm
DejaVu2001 wrote:^ That has the potential to get really bad, really fast just making every member a moderator.


Totally; just like with the old member rating system it will be abused quickly, although with that I have seen forums that will automatically speedban someone who recieves [x] amount of negative ratings in a short amount of time, but I am fairly certain that isn't a phpBB feature.
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