Been out for a few hours, came back and saw we'd been hit by a spammer who had somehow got through the protection. Started deleting the spam posts only to see the number of them was going up not down. Looked at the spammers profile to see that he had posted 71 posts which rose to 76 while I was looking at it. By the time I'd clicked the Ban Member button, he was up to 78! At 3 mouse clicks to delete spam, it's normally fairly simple but when there's 78 to get rid of......
It also doesn't help that there was a bug which I've sorted out where you couldn't just delete all the spammers in one go. There's been a bit of a cleaning of the stables since...
Well again thanks for all your work on this forum Richard and Gordon!
Well done guys, I would imagine that all members are very grateful for your work. I, personally, wouldn't know where to start !!! Thanks again.
Pierre3.
That's because you don't have the extra button marked 'Moderate' showing like we do.......
Pity can't use their heads to play football with ---- sounds like a PITA of a job sorting out the problem ---- well done to you for time and ability to do it 👍👍👍
FWIW the spammers are usually using a tool like XRumer to automate signing up and posting. Although the library that handles the form that you type your post into has some trickery to protect against automated posting, there are people out there who are using a lot of skill and ingenuity to work round it.
Judging by the spam signups, it looks like rrpub is included in XRumer's list of possibly usable forums. I guess no publicity is bad publicity, right?
I deleted 2 spam threads the other day from a user called games_bebra. I tried to ban the user but got an error message reading something like 'method not allowed'.
That might mean someone else was trying to ban him at the same time. LPGforum kicks up some errors when two people are trying to moderate the same posts at the same time.
I banned Games_Bebra a couple of days ago, so maybe at the same time you were trying to do it. Or I got to him a few seconds before you did and it wouldn't let you ban him as he was already banned. I've noticed that odd things happen on LPGforum when we are both logged in and obviously dealing with spam at the same time. We're just too good, that's the problem.......