Spammers volume 2

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Spammers volume 2

Post by glasgowjim » Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:52 pm

There are too many of them and its a losing battle just now even with the 3 of us mods its just insane the number of spam posts.

completely despammed

the secret life of...

general discussions

sales / wants cars

sales / wants parts accessories etc...

wastegate now clear

non volvo problem cars now clear.

How to .. section now clear.

and will endeavour to maintain these threads clear of spam.

Apologies to any members who have seen their post count decrease but on some threads you are looking at 10 or 11 spam posts and only 1/2 genuine plus the thread is either old or not vital in my judgement so I have deleted the entire thread. Drastic I know but its a dire situation. Have given up on trying to eliminate all the new spam posts there are just too many so have concentrated on these and if I get the chance will try on the other sections but its difficult .

In the time it has taken me to type this there have probably been another 4 or 5 spams added to the forum.

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Re: Spammers volume 2

Post by coyote1980 » Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:23 am

I have as a drastic measure disabled the registering of new members and am sipping coffee while fighting the damage already done.

Hope dragon will install a mod I recommended to present more spam fighting tools as this is just insane...
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Re: Spammers volume 2

Post by glasgowjim » Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:13 am

totally agree Daniel.

Many thanks.

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Re: Spammers volume 2

Post by Iroll480 » Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:53 am

Wow, what a relieve to see the forum spamfree. Drastic measures where needed indeed, good job moderators!

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Re: Spammers volume 2

Post by chriskay » Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:27 am

Looks as if one escaped the net. zirvata.
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Re: Spammers volume 2

Post by coyote1980 » Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:34 am

There are still zero-post users registered by spammers in the past which they can put into use to post spam.

But this seems to be on a scale that is manageable by the moderators. Just removed the spammer and the two spamposts by the user you just mentioned. 8)
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