Tyr
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Registered: 04.Jan.05 |
How often does an honest to god member here mention viagra exept when making fun of spambots and the bottomfeeding scum that made them?
I think banning those posts would decrease the workload on admins considerably and would mean less eyesores when visits the forums.
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Justin T.
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Registered: 04.Nov.08 |
Good idea but their just going to keep doing. At least the admin finnaly put up a Recatchpa but that's not doing much good at all. We need other ideas...
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NapuZ
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Registered: 14.Apr.07 |
There are some problems in Banning a forum topic/post with the constant "Viagra"
there may be a song named viagra.
someone could actually be talking about viagra.
also, unlike email, CTG forums are not poluted with viagra spam.
It is definitely something to look into, but I personally think manually hiding spam threads is worth it right now.
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Tyr
Artist
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Replies: 1054
Registered: 04.Jan.05 |
Well, if you have a song called viagra you can find a way around it, but banning posts containing "online pharmacy" "viagra" etc will at least make your job alot easier since those spambots do not think for themselves  |
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SoulRed12
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Registered: 30.Jul.09 |
Word filter systems usually don't work in the end, because they can be so easily circumvented. For example, maybe I write viagra, but then again maybe I write via gra, or viiagra, etc.
One thing that's been done on another community, was create a "spam board" above all other forums. The forum's threads are set to be moderator-approved before they appear publicly; the point being, that spambots will find the first available forum, and post in it, without knowing that their post won't in fact show up. It's not a catch-all, but it should reduce quite a lot of spam posts/threads and it did on the forum from which I got the idea. |
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Justin T.
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Registered: 04.Nov.08 |
SoulRed12 wrote on 31 Jul. (7:25) :
Word filter systems usually don't work in the end, because they can be so easily circumvented. For example, maybe I write viagra, but then again maybe I write via gra, or viiagra, etc.
One thing that's been done on another community, was create a "spam board" above all other forums. The forum's threads are set to be moderator-approved before they appear publicly; the point being, that spambots will find the first available forum, and post in it, without knowing that their post won't in fact show up. It's not a catch-all, but it should reduce quite a lot of spam posts/threads and it did on the forum from which I got the idea. |
Atleast it would help
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NapuZ
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Registered: 14.Apr.07 |
bully34 wrote on 01 Aug. (3:19) :
Atleast it would help
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It would hinder more than help in my predictions.
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