Seems like the forums are under attack...

That has worked well on any forums I've helped maintain over the years.

 

For Great Justice.

I guess that was his revenge.

LAME

 

Great

 

yeah had some PM's myself, a spam filter will be good

 

Hey,

Guys if you get inappropriate spam in your PM box, click the report button and we will deal with the user(s) in question.

 

I know the guy who made this image... He plays on my server in FFXI (the image is made out of assets of the said game, FYI). Very appropriated.

 

Spam-O-Matic works really well on a vBulletin 4 forum i own.

You can block by keyword too, so if a bot is constantly spamming your forum with "hotfile.com" in the message for example, you can simply blacklist that and he will always be denied posting. After a person has mad a set amount of posts (e.g. 5) you can disable it checking any posts made by that user.

 

okey, i didn't even noticed this spammer?

 

I got a pm from him as well.

 

I won't point fingers, and you can call me paranoid... but I seem to be seeing more and more new users posting everywhere just to get to 50 posts and be able to sell in the marketplace...

 

I haven't seen that many...but I definitely see at least one here.

 

Raise it to 200.

 

AND at least a three months old account on the forums. That will stop people from posting (flooding) like crazy.

 

Same thing I use on a board about twice the size of assembler, works well, highly suggested.

-Doom

 

I've seen a lot, they mainly hang around the "member collections" section and just say "Nice collection" on every single one.

 

As well as in the Member introduction...
They also bring up some old threads with small and non-relevant comments.

 

Seems a round of nazi pedo bear PM are going out. If you get one just report it and we will ban the user.

Stupid spill over from neo-geo/shmups. =/

If you see it. Please report it. I already zero out an account and gave a week ban for it. Another user was flagged but he had been here for a few weeks.

 

That wouldn't be fair, a lot of great users didn't knew anyone from assembler prior to joining us. And ASSEMbler is the definitive knowledge database for a lot of gaming related stuff, we would basically lock people out of it. And it would gradually kill the forum.

 

Just because someone posts on a forum doesn't make them any more worthy or deserving of the community's trust. By raising it to 200 you are basically asking for more spam posts and making it harder for people to sell their goods. Sure, adding a 200 post count barrier might seem like a good idea, but scammers will easily get past it if they have money as a motive. Especially on a forum where people sell items worth hundreds. It's up to the purchaser to decide whether the seller is a scammer or not. I see the rationality in a 50 post count limit, but 200 seems like a stretch and will just push people to sell their items elsewhere.