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Old 10-12-2012, 04:13 PM
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Maybe you could add some sort of questions or something to the registration...so you'll know it's not only a real person, but someone who KNOWS what a CRT is...or what AGC stands for. We were having this sort of problem at soulhamsters.com...and the mods added some Kia Soul specific questions to the registration process.
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Old 10-12-2012, 06:50 PM
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I would if I knew how. I think it's an add-on vBulletin module
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Old 10-12-2012, 07:02 PM
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Thanks for your hard work to keep the forum's high quality intact, Tim.
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Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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Old 10-12-2012, 08:20 PM
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Perhaps not allowing posts until they answer a pm from you. No module required for that
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Old 10-12-2012, 09:00 PM
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Well basically at this point, every time there's a new registration, I get an email. The email shows the user's name, their email address, and their registration IP.

These idiots have been easy to spot, using uj8yag8cewopc@gmail or some such. Not real inventive. Might get tougher to spot at some point, but I have to think that as of now, it's being done by some kinda web spam robot program....
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Old 10-12-2012, 10:30 PM
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Thanks for your efforts, guys. We all appreciate it!
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Old 10-15-2012, 07:08 PM
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It's nice not having the old semi-regular waves of spam.
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Old 10-17-2012, 01:18 AM
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After the barrage of spam got this morning, I elected to turn on moderation of new members. This means that I'll be manually approving each new member that joins, from this point forward, to eliminate this crapola.
I am sorry this is happening....... This is sadly the ONLY WAY to make sure spam doesnt get thru
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Old 10-28-2012, 11:46 PM
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Still see spam. Still is on the stove cooking apparently.
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Old 10-29-2012, 06:19 AM
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These are from registrations before we enacted the system. We're doing our best to clear them all out, but they're like trying to get rid of ants in the kitchen cupboard, as soon as you think they're all gone, you see one more come out....
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Old 11-12-2012, 11:45 AM
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This one joined just this month.

http://www.videokarma.org/showthread...07#post3053907

I still feel it's going to be impossible to eradicate it without extra help.
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Old 11-12-2012, 12:04 PM
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Gone within 10 minutes of the post. Minor inconvenience, but we get 99% of them on registration.
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Old 11-12-2012, 12:14 PM
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Not sure if this forum software can do it, but when I administered a forum some years ago, this was the registration process.

1. User registers.
2. Gets an email to verify.
3. Clicks link to verify, and then gets to only see one introduction forum which is hidden from normal user view. User must introduce themselves to prove human, and once they do, they get unlocked to the rest of the forum, and that intro post gets moved to the normal introduction forum.

That has worked very well. Only some complaints from new people, but they get over it.
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Old 11-12-2012, 12:26 PM
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I'm not in control of the site's software, so here is how I have it set up, which has worked out pretty well.

1. User registers.
2. Gets an email to verify.
3. Clicks link to verify, their username is then held in a queue. From there, I inspect every one, and delete the obvious spammers. Then, each one that appears valid, I cross-check their IP to their location. Ones from China, Pakistan, and the obvious ones are deleted. The rest are accepted.

Many of these current spammers are from old registrations prior to implementing the policy. This one may be fresh, but you can't catch every one. That said, the moderation team is doing a great job at keeping the place clean with what we have to work with.....
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Old 11-12-2012, 02:02 PM
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I check in when I get on 1st thing in the morning. They're usually REALLY easy to spot, the usernames look like a chicken has been pecking on the keyboard, & the message-If its even in English-Will be something that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever-"The blue LOUIS VUITTON dog jumps over the LOUIS VUITTON moon during the 3 days of LOUIS VUITTON twilight", w/ obviously "Louis Vuitton" taking you apparently, to their website.
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