How to discourage people posting spam in the forums ?

Post by **luchtzak** » 19 Oct 2004, 15:46

Today I noticed 1 nickname posting a few short message all followed with an url to visit a website (just for visiting or for buying stuff).

To discourage this people I suggest not to click on the links. The administration-team will remove them ASAP and the IP-adress that posted this kind of messages will be blocked from visiting the forums thus posting new spam messages.

AN124 · Post by **AN124** » 19 Oct 2004, 16:45

Watch out with this solution Bart, not all providers give you a static IP.
It could be that you are blocking the wrong persons.

Best Regards,
Yvo

Post by **luchtzak** » 01 Dec 2004, 20:02

Dear luchtzak-members,

since a few days we have noticed an increase of spam-messages posted in the forums.

Please don't click on the url's!!

We will remove the url's ASAP if not the entire topic.

Lyulka · Post by **Lyulka** » 01 Dec 2004, 20:53

Perhaps you can make the registration a bit more time-consuming?

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 02 Dec 2004, 05:17

Dear Bart,

Greetings. I think Lyulka makes more sense. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Post by **sn26567** » 02 Dec 2004, 09:40

Lyulka wrote:Perhaps you can make the registration a bit more time-consuming?

I would be against a tougher procedure. We don't want to discourage bona fide aviation fans.

Post by **luchtzak** » 02 Dec 2004, 21:01

sn26567 wrote:
Lyulka wrote:Perhaps you can make the registration a bit more time-consuming?
I would be against a tougher procedure. We don't want to discourage bona fide aviation fans.

Indeed André. In my opinion the registration-process is already rather time-consuming: you need to register, then wait for your activiation-mail then click the url, then login... Don't make it even more difficult

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 02 Dec 2004, 21:43

Let's just try not to click on those links and wait till the admins delete those topics.

By the way, you admins are doing a good job because I never saw any spam topic lately.

Chris

Post by **luchtzak** » 10 Jan 2005, 13:44

May we remind new members that spamming on this website is not tolerated.

thanks,

Bart

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » 15 Jan 2005, 15:32

I also would like to add this: please do not reply to such a spam message, just ignore it. Because answering such a message means more views, more people reading that shit, ...., and also more spam topics.

Advisor · Post by **Advisor** » 15 Jan 2005, 18:33

SPAMMERS SHALL NOT BE FORGIVEN.
NOT BY THE LORD.
AND DEFINATELY NOT BY LUCHTZAKERS.

Post by **luchtzak** » 17 Jan 2005, 16:12

blackhawk wrote:I also would like to add this: please do not reply to such a spam message, just ignore it. Because answering such a message means more views, more people reading that shit, ...., and also more spam topics.

Good point Blackhawk!

BTW today I had to remove spam-messages again

It's getting a trend

CN-RAM · Post by **CN-RAM** » 17 Jan 2005, 17:39

i think it best if anyone sees any spam they should immediately report it to the administrator(s) - or are administrators on watch 24/7? - what also comes to mind is that if they're not on watch 24/7 these spammers can do all their nasty work at night.

i still see 3 forums on the home page with spam content.

Post by **Bottie** » 17 Jan 2005, 17:40

CN-RAM wrote:i still see 3 forums on the home page with spam content.

I reported them around 1530

Post by **luchtzak** » 18 Jan 2005, 00:12

CN-RAM wrote:]i still see 3 forums on the home page with spam content.

Yes, but when you click on the topic you will not see a topic nor the spam-message. As soon as it disappears from the front-page you will never see it again

We do our very best to reduce spam-messages to a minimum.

Post by **sn26567** » 18 Jan 2005, 09:27

CN-RAM wrote:Are administrators on watch 24/7?

Unfortunately not. They have other duties: work or school. They also need some sleep. We do not live in an ideal world.

But keep reporting spam. Whoever is next on duty will remove it.

Post by **luchtzak** » 27 Oct 2005, 23:56

Today one of our members reported a SPAM-mail in his private message box. Thanks to the information I received (nickname + contents of the SPAM) I could locate 189 messages in the database sent to 189 different members. I removed all of them.

Remember this when you receive SPAM via www.luchtzak.be :

- don't open the website if mentioned,
- don't send mail if there is one mentioned,
- don't reply the message,
- report to

ASAP with all the details that you can find (nickname + contents + ...) With the information we can track down all SPAM-messages and we can block IP-adresses and remove false accounts.