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Granulated

Location: London

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 9:36 am   Reply with quote         


Make it so that you can't post to the forum until you've posted an image or 3 ??

It would cut down the frequency of drive-by spammers.
badcop

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:27 am   Reply with quote         


.

I was thinking the exact same thing the last time I saw a spammer here.

Bots or humans, there's no way they'll go through the trouble of posting pics on separate days (although if they will it'll make for some very interesting submissions).
Granulated

Location: London

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:31 am   Reply with quote         


hmm..Bot-jpeg creation/submission ! Laughing
splodge

Location: Yorkshire,

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:33 am   Reply with quote         


i sugested this years ago, it was ignored then too Smile




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yello_piggy

Location: Vienna/Austria/Europe

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ReyRey

Location: In a world of $#!t

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:42 am   Reply with quote         


splodge wrote:
i sugested this years ago, it was ignored then too Smile

What splodge?? Did you say something???? Laughing
dunno

Location: here

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:54 am   Reply with quote         


what about a "pay-per-post" system? Shocked

err... nevermind, gotta go... Razz




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Z

Location: United States, Missouri

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:56 am   Reply with quote         


Yep, that would do it! Keep out at least 90% of spammers!
anfa

Location: Geordieland, UK

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:58 am   Reply with quote         


It's easy to stop spambots! In the sign up bit we should have a stage where you put a code in that you see on the screen. Spambots can't see screens!
Grefix

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:18 pm   Reply with quote         


anfa wrote:
It's easy to stop spambots! In the sign up bit we should have a stage where you put a code in that you see on the screen. Spambots can't see screens!

yes, but not al spammers are spambots unfortunately (actually if you look at freelancer sites, they're are quite many offerings to do this kind of job). And these days, some companies use spambots which are able to decipher captcha images (OCR based)...

ps: btw registration here is already protected with captcha.




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Paul Von Stetina

Location: Deep Shit

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:14 pm   Reply with quote         


you mean Jenna, the horny housewife is not real? Crying or Very sad
armogeden

Location: The other side of your screen

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:16 pm   Reply with quote         


i had the same thought




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mason4300

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:24 pm   Reply with quote         


great idea! why not? Actually, I have an even better idea...
Some people that are new like to ask questions or reply to already-created threads, so how about they can reply to threads, but they just can't make their own thread until they've posted a certain amount of chops.

Some spammers might post in threads, but I doubt it would be so bad. the main problem here is the numerous threads that are spam.
ScionShade

Location: VeniceFlaUS

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:48 pm   Reply with quote         


anfa wrote:
It's easy to stop spambots! In the sign up bit we should have a stage where you put a code in that you see on the screen. Spambots can't see screens!

Asked Mr.JMH about that last year.
Mr.JMH says a lot of our spammers are real people
making real money.
Sassy

Location: Tripping the lights Fandango

Post Sat Nov 11, 2006 4:29 pm   Reply with quote         


I found a forum for Panama that dosen't delete the spammers..OMG it literally had taken over the site like weeds (not the kind ya smoke).I found ZERO information and finally gave up.

It had mutated the entire site...




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