spammer rant

[underground57]

What's up with the spammers as of late. I've noticed that people are signing up just to post their site/product/agenda/pyramid scheme. First of all none of these are sponsors. Secondly, they're annoying and mostly useless. Lastly, there's an advertiser's section for a reason. These threads are like bad commercials. I stopped watching tv and listening to the radio because of that. I can handle no tv and radio, but NICO I'm not willing to do without, so you annoying spammer people, go the **** away. Please.

That is all.

Edit: A big thank you to the mods/admins for keeping this place all happy.
Modified by underground57 at 1:06 PM 12/31/2004

[Rex]

One suggestion that has been made is to set a "timer" that wont' allow you to post for 24 hrs or 3 days or some set value after you set up your user name. Of course, this would only deter the quick hits.

Not sure if this is even possible, but the bogus posts may help make this happen??

[AZhitman]

Please feel free to notify me or any other mod/admin when you see these.

I delete the user on sight and ban IP address for 2nd offenses.

[Mr1der]

they do tend to get the mighty hands of manos striking them swiftly though....

glad we don't have a chat room to get full of camwhore bots....or am I?

[themadscientist]

I keep them down in the basement with the cucarachas!

[Rex]

One thing I'd reco for now, is do not click a,link in a thread posted by someone that's joined like that day and has 1 or 2 posts total. If they get no traffic from it, maybe they'll stop even trying.

[574-240sx]

I say make a button to notify mods of a problem and a place to type a brief explaination. Many times mods don't see it until a few hours or day later.

[mkory]

Great idea 574. Maybe it could be like a "report thread" option in the user cp area.