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Spam :(
Arseen:
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--- Quote from: Arseen on November 11, 2011, 11:41:41 PM ---The spam wiould be easily lessened with one simple change I've suggested, but NO, others fear. ;D
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Take it to Snowcone. He's a great guy that listen to suggestions. If he thinks your idea would be beneficial to the site, he'll do it.
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I did, no responce.
tiktektak:
We have a captcha in place afaik but that doesn't keep spammers away completely. These aren't bots those are people who get paid for spamming.
Arseen:
Hence my request of removing that one thing.
Would make them atleast use some effort.
UncleBob:
The thing that would probably make the biggest difference would be setting up a robots.txt file that exempts the forums from all the search engines.
Spammers aren't posting on the forums to sell crap to you and me. They're posting trying to get the various search engines to pick up on their links and jump them up in the rankings.
Take the forums out of the search engines and you'll slowly see spammers go away.
AppleQueso:
--- Quote from: UncleBob on November 12, 2011, 11:03:06 AM ---The thing that would probably make the biggest difference would be setting up a robots.txt file that exempts the forums from all the search engines.
Spammers aren't posting on the forums to sell crap to you and me. They're posting trying to get the various search engines to pick up on their links and jump them up in the rankings.
Take the forums out of the search engines and you'll slowly see spammers go away.
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I agree with this.