Anti Spam Actions

[The V8 Files]

Originally Posted by twinturbo

I can ban users as well now so hopefully the problem will deminish a bit.


TT

just out of interest do you know how many have been banned under the current spam issue?

[AshG]

72 this week so far

[twinturbo]

be a few more over night me thinks....

although if inteligent the BOT may check the longevity of its work and decide to move on ... although i doubt it as it's not exactly costly for the BOT owner to keep it pluging at sites.

TT

[twinturbo]

another bunch of users banned and 30odd posts removed...

TT

[baz-r]

would there be some way of only book owners been able to register here to post
this way it helps fund the site via book sales?

[twinturbo]

As a retrospective measure no, you would need a complex individual code number in each book. Then their would be the technical aspect, which would far outweigh the work needed to upgrade to a later version of vBulletin which has improved anti-spam measures.

And besides, we want to encourage genuine people to join the self build community.

TT