Forum Spambots

tacorajim

2009-04-30 01:19:52

Since 4/11/09 there's been about 60 new members of questionable interest to this site. Like some foreign invasion by someone(s) with little or nothing to contribute to this great niche forum.



Earlier I bragged about the acceleration of new members this year. Valid praise methinks ... but then all hell broke loose and we have 2-3 pages of . . . what . . . forum spambots across the globe listed as new members.



Can we take this site back?

Jon

2009-05-26 17:48:45

phpbb's captcha was cracked recently by spammers. I deleted about 100 spambot users and made some changes to the registration process that should stop the spam bots.



Thanks,

Jon

mydona

2011-06-23 16:12:51

Jon Thanks so much for cleaning this up .. again. I almost got a hold of you yestrdy for a request. I was thinking that Dale (ATA) may like to also act as a administrator? The new ATA page has a link to here for post and announcements. I had even gone as far as Google'n Frank-n-ass. He had been spammin everywhere. Several were related to fishing and 1I explored seemed to be from around the HI. Islands. Again.. Thank you, Al

Jon

2012-09-28 01:20:36

If you see spam, or other inappropriate posts, please use the 'Report Post' icon above the post and it will get dealt with right away.



The icon looks like this:



[img="http://www.salmontrolling.com/styles/prosilver/imageset/icon_post_report.gif" alt=""]

Once and Future

2012-09-29 13:03:11

My computer/internet skills seem to be diminishing, so it's probably just me; but I can't find that icon above the posts. Off Topic Discussion is full of kitchen ads I was going to report.

Jon

2012-09-29 14:30:12

The icons will only show up if you are logged in. Is that the problem?

Jon

2012-09-29 15:11:55

Found the spam posts in Off Topic Discussion... I left one for you to test out the Reporting on :)

Once and Future

2012-09-30 02:13:33

Yes, logging in made the icon appear. Thanks.

Anonymous

2019-02-02 16:55:07

i logged on went straight to the garage to have a look and when i went to the discussion forum list they were all marked as read...

Anonymous

2019-05-11 22:23:09

I just joined the HTC Forums and was disappointed not to find a Forum on HTC Smart.

Did I miss something?