Spam on this group...?

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:49 pm

What that dumbass is doing is trying to promote his website by creating as many links to it from other places on the Internet as possible. This will increase it's relevance in some search engines because it will make his website appear more popular than it really is.

People have written bots to spam forums, newsgroups, and blogs all over the 'net. The better search engines have of course picked up on this and know how to deal with this deception.

MikeGunter · Post by **MikeGunter** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:31 pm

THoff wrote:I received a Nigerian 419 scam PM on the Canopus forums through a PM about two months ago. The moderator that I reported the PM to indicated that other forum members had also received that crap.

Which mod did you write to? We have had very good luck with spam control.

Mike

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 11:32 pm

Almost to fifty posts now... Could you imagine if there was 20 or 30 of them running around rampant in here, it would be a mess. That's the first thing I thought when I saw I saw this forum that it was open to abuse. Oh well...

david reece · Post by **david reece** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:29 pm

i have spysweeper installed and in this site it keeps on removing a tracking cookie!

owner@phpbbulead.com

you may wish to check thisout!

and i wished that tw*t would stop leaving messages as well!

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:10 pm

david reece wrote:i have spysweeper installed and in this site it keeps on removing a tracking cookie!

owner@phpbbulead.com

you may wish to check thisout!

and i wished that tw*t would stop leaving messages as well!

That cookie is for the auto login feature, some boards use it for the post icons but phpbb is databsed for that.

kebrinton · Post by **kebrinton** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:57 pm

I belong to the Sound Forge forum, and was reminded of a feature there: You can click "Ignore this person" which (I believe) would eliminate posts from that person from your view of the forum in the future. I always supposed that if enough forum participants found a particular person obnoxious enough, they would "ignore" him (or her) and he/she would soon find him/herself talking to the empty air.

Wishing to show UVS members what it looks like, I went to the Sound Forge forum and discovered that in the last few days they have revamped the forum and required new passwords and eliminated the "Ignore this person" feature.

That's just great! Now what?

Keith

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:58 am

That feture is available in phpbb but is a modification that has to be installed, there's hundreds of mods available. Even game mods, I just installed one a few days ago. The trouble is the more mods you add the more processing power it requires to process the page. Each page is dynamically generated by the server, so evertime you click a link it needs to create a new page. For large forums that can produce problems.

If it's phpbb forum maybe they decided to can it for better performance, or haven't installed the mod yet. I'd request it, if it's run well and enough people ask I'm sure the host will oblige.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:07 pm

thecoalman wrote:I've also pointed it out that particular user to the only admin that I can seem to get in contact with a week or two ago, there's 1 or two other users too.

Yet another example of Ulead's fine customer support, you've pointed out a spammer filling up the board yet they did nothing.