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Spam :(
Seraph Man:
Many of them tend to have wild links to whatever they want to link to at around the same place you have the word vark on your profile, as well as in signatures. That's what I've noticed at least.
Arseen:
--- Quote from: AppleQueso on November 14, 2011, 09:42:27 AM ---How exactly would you differentiate spammer accounts from real users before they post?
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read PM
UncleBob:
Probably similar to the way it's done now.
Which is why we have so many members sending e-mails asking why they were banned and people's accounts mysteriously getting deleted.
lcvolt:
i'm not a very involved user on the site, but i can guess 2 things:
i've found this forum to be vey exclusive and somehow hard to find. therefore there aren't too much unwanted visits.
administrators wipe it out quickly
sheep2001:
--- Quote from: UncleBob on November 14, 2011, 08:48:49 PM ---Probably similar to the way it's done now.
Which is why we have so many members sending e-mails asking why they were banned and people's accounts mysteriously getting deleted.
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I'm not usually one to stick up for arseen, but that's out of order. Without him and me clearing out the overnight spam, you guys across the pond would wake up to a ridiculous amount of porn, pills and uggs.
And how many mysterious deletions are we talking about here? I remember 1 regular member from 3 or 4 months ago......
Recently it's been worse than I've ever known it around here. And worse than any other site I am a member of. Just because you know some sites that are worse, doesn't mean its fine to leave things around here as they are. I'm not sold on manual activation, but if arseen thinks hhe's got the time to administer it, I'd be all for giving him the chance!