Nice work mods!!

[traffic903]

Just wanted to congratulate the mods for jumping on that piece of *s-word spammer before he posted another thousand times. Great work. Well done.

 

[Jon1212]

Just wanted to congratulate the mods for jumping on that piece of *s-word spammer before he posted another thousand times. Great work. Well done.

Thanks!

This go round was 3 1/2 pages posted on the Chainsaw Forum in a matter of mere minutes. @Dub11 tipped me off to it last night.

My first act was to ban the offender, then came the PITA of deleting all of the threads.

 

[Ryan Browne]

Thanks!

This go round was 3 1/2 pages posted on the Chainsaw Forum in a matter of mere minutes. @Dub11 tipped me off to it last night.

My first act was to ban the offender, then came the PITA of deleting all of the threads.

Could the powers at be make it possible to ban a member and then delete every thread started by that member all at once, instead of having to do it one at a time?

 

[Dub11]

Thanks!

This go round was 3 1/2 pages posted on the Chainsaw Forum in a matter of mere minutes. @Dub11 tipped me off to it last night.

My first act was to ban the offender, then came the PITA of deleting all of the threads.

I was going to text you but it was late. And we should thank the house full of kids at my house that wouldn't go to sleep.

 

[Wonkydonkey]

Being in the uk, and sleeping at other times than those on the other side .

I was up and reading, when those bots started spamming on two of the 3-4 occasions, but I just have to make a thread and link to the @mods in the thread. So as to bring there attention to it.
Cheers to you all for the speedy work and clearing the trail of mess they leave.

I,m also glad that I can put the spammer into ignore, so I can still read all the other threads.

Cheers

 

[Jon1212]

Could the powers at be make it possible to ban a member and then delete every thread started by that member all at once, instead of having to do it one at a time?

Yes.....if you can figure out how to get them to come to work dot dot dot

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

There has to be forum software out there that can help you guys out with this. Pretty clear that these are bots of some kind as they always hit the chainsaw subforum and it has the most traffic.

 

[Stihlsmoking]

Being in the uk, and sleeping at other times than those on the other side .

I was up and reading, when those bots started spamming on two of the 3-4 occasions, but I just have to make a thread and link to the @mods in the thread. So as to bring there attention to it.
Cheers to you all for the speedy work and clearing the trail of mess they leave.

I,m also glad that I can put the spammer into ignore, so I can still read all the other threads.

Cheers

All you have to do is click the report button and say spam. Instead of creating a whole new thread ?

 

[Wonkydonkey]

Ah cheers for that. How did I miss that

 

[Jon1212]

If a thread has been reported, please "reply" reported. So that [we] don't end up with a myriad of reports for the same thread.

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

If a thread has been reported, please "reply" reported. So that [we] don't end up with a myriad of reports for the same thread.

Good point and duly noted.

 

[Wonkydonkey]

But who's gonna look at all those spammed threads to see if it been reported
When you get a thread every min or so.

I just see.. China text and or some wierd translated guff, and go.. Holy cow poo bots doin it again.

Unless like a hombrew forum I belong to, once a thread gets reported it can't be reported again

The simple life would be stopping them in the first place. But that's very easly said and hard to accomplish
Cheers

 

[Jon1212]

But who's gonna look at all those spammed threads to see if it been reported
When you get a thread every min or so.

I just see.. China text and or some wierd translated guff, and go.. Holy cow poo bots doin it again.

Unless like a hombrew forum I belong to, once a thread gets reported it can't be reported again

The simple life would be stopping them in the first place. But that's very easly said and hard to accomplish
Cheers

All good points @Wonkydonkey

Allegedly, there is something in the works to block the spam bots.

 

[Termitebuffet]

If a thread has been reported, please "reply" reported. So that [we] don't end up with a myriad of reports for the same thread.

Reported

Sawhawgz, ruining the internet since 2012...

 

[Jon1212]

Reported

Sawhawgz, ruining the internet since 2012...

Ignored!

 

[Termitebuffet]

Ignored!

As always

Sawhawgz, ruining the internet since 2012...

 

[Al Smith]

Probably what's happening is somebody some how has a bunch browsers open and pings them all at once .Presto instant chit sandwich .

 

[Ryan Browne]

And they're back again, @Jon1212

I bet this is super annoying.

 

[Grimmy]

On VB forums that I maintain, I set it so that new users would have their posts moderated and had to be approved before they would be seen. After 10 posts, the forum software would graduate them into a regular usergroup. It was an easy way to keep the spam threads under control. I also had a mod installed that once I banned someone, I could easily remove all their posts, so it would clean things up. The sooner you catch and stop it, the less clean up needed.

 

[CR888]

The bots from the land of the complete cheap full parts saw kits have returned to fill the new posts page. Between the bots & John1212's Chinese language insights, I'm beginning to speak mandarin quite well.