Dodgy Signups

football4real · Reserves Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 102

Hi there

One of the problems with running a forum is that we get loads of dodgy signups promoting porn or pills.

Football4Real take this rubbish seriously and do our utmost to delete these signups as quickly as possible. If you do see a signup or a post promoting porn or pills or anything else dodgy please be assured that it won't be there for long.

We are also upgrading our forum to increase the security of the site.

This site is committed to 'real football 4 real fans'

Cheers

The Football4Real Team

Norton_Blade · Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject:

We had a few on our forum.

Some are spammers peddling porn. The ones that don't appear to be making any sense are bots which from what I can gather are mostly harmless if annoying. They usually use the same generated names/email addresses so if in doubt, google is your friend.

Is there any way you can prevent new users posting URLs until they have made a set amount of "normal" posts? To most spammers, it isn't worth the effort and they'll move on to pastures new.

Just an idea
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Norton_Blade · Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:25 am Post subject:

Apologies for the double post:

Is there anyway you can incorporate a "report post" feature in the forums... would certainly help us to help you weed out the bots.... like THIS ONE fr'instance.

By the way... I'd certainly say that every sign-up on THIS PAGE is spurious. The combination of a name plus a few digits points towards a generated sign-up.
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