Spam

[Skim]

This forum used to be my 2 nd stop daily to catch up.

This continuous and lots of spam (or whatever it's called) is really irritating.

Is it impossible to eliminate it? Good luck to admins, hopefully we can get back to normality.

[GS Jim]

I agree. This has gotten out of hand, there must be something that admin can do, they are all first posts so they need to screen first posts. This has been going on for a while and getting worst. Admin? Any comments?

[Ruan]

Hi Both

It's really an uphill battle, we've changed the ability to post to wait approval of your user last week, but after approving a small batch of users, some bots made it through.

At this point we're considering actually not allowing new signups until that person logs a support ticket, because just one bot (of the 4 that caused havok over the weekend) posted 89 posts. The other 76. It's difficult for us to maintain at all times due to our other obligations, but we've cleaned everything up again.


We're looking at ways to make this better, and we do apologise for the spam - know that it pains us as well!

Kind regards
Ruan

[WayneC]

The SPAM regarding the dark web is as a result of Govts taking down a couple of the largest dark web criminal sites & now the there are attempts to set up new dark web sites, quite a bit of info on it in the specialist IT press

The thought to delete/disable Russian language came to mind over the last week