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Spammers are now PM'ing Us?
Hello Laura!!
The user “govouv” sent you a message:
Subject: hello
my name is sara,i like us to be friends so we can exchange pictures and ideas.i also have something important to tell you,of which i believe your advise will help me.please i like you to write me at my email hzokora@gmail.com so that we take it from there if you dont mind.God bless you
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- Laura
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RE: Spammers are now PM'ing Us?
Captcha tests are now in place for "new users" for sending PMs, posting blogs, and posting to the forums, as well as registering for the site. This should also help to really cut down on those darn annoying spammers.
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Brent - Lead developer
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I go send friend requests periodically which means sorting fans by the newest members option. It does appear that the number of new sign ups are down..hopefully meaning that it's the spammers that aren't able to break the captcha. But it does look like about 1/3 of the new sign ups over the last day or day and a half are still spam. It's just such a waste that they do what they do. Especially since they sign up but don't do anything other than set up a profile and add links to trash. And there are a few that have multiple accounts and just add a different number behind the name. Real members don't really click and follow links off these accounts, do they? Is is easier sending requests since the overall number of (spam) accounts being created are down...but it's too bad it's so easy to create the bot to spam but so difficult to stop them.
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RE: Spammers are now PM'ing Us?
I've added a new button to forum posts "Flag as spam" -- if a certain number of people complain a post is spam by clicking the button *poof* it will disappear. Stopping them from getting in can only go so far, as Pearl stated above, so this will help by letting the fans send spam posts into oblivion.
Thanks for hanging in there guys!
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Brent - Lead developer, Ground(ctrl)
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RE: Spammers are now PM'ing Us?
I got that same message a week or so ago, but I didn't reply to it. I think the person was deleted before I got to reply to the message or something because it showed I had a message when I got the email, but not on here.
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RE: Spammers are now PM'ing Us?
I got that same message a week or so ago, but I didn't reply to it. I think the person was deleted before I got to reply to the message or something because it showed I had a message when I got the email, but not on here.
Yeah, we disabled them so you would not have the message anymore.
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Re: Spammers are now PM'ing Us?
Looks like this is under(ctrl). Get it?
haha You guys are a funny bunch.
And I'm by no means being rude or disrespectful here, but I'm amazed by the number of spam sign ups still since implementing the captcha system. I bet it's close to 50%. I've gone back to foregoing friending members because it's just so time consuming sorting through them. But with that being said, the spam does seem to be down on the forums and site in general.
And the new reply box is a BIG plus..being able to see the topic replies while posting a reply is one of the very first things I asked for on the site back when it first went live and it caused a big war with the whole 'personal preference' thing. I'm able to start a reply, use the page numbering system (right above this reply box) to go read the entire topic- then go right back to my reply that was already started. HUGE IMPROVEMENT for the site. *two thumbs up*
~Pea
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Re: Spammers are now PM'ing Us?
Yea, the amount of people trying to get in here to spam blows me away. Though I do have a nice little chuckle every morning when I check out how many spam attempts have failed thanks to the CAPTCHAs. They'll keep coming up with new ways to try to get in and we'll keep finding ways to kick them right back out.
