ADULT ORIENTATED WEBSITES & CASINOS, JUNK POSTS

[masterofinsanity]

THERE'S A LOT OF NEW MEMBERS JOINING PURELY TO PLUG THEIR ADULT ORIENTATED WEBSITES, PLEASE NOTE WE DON'T WANT THIS ON THIS FORUM, ANY NEW MEMBERS JOINING FOR THIS WILL BE IMMEDIATELY DELETED ALONG WITH ALL POSTS!!!

[masterofinsanity]

ok as some of you out there have problems understanding the last post i have now enabled account activation so if any new members join they have to get past me first. sorry its had to be like this!

[greengoblin]

Its unfortunate yes , but these muppets really p*** me off too.

Good on you for not letting them ruin this forum .

[Bandido]

Yerp we don't want none of that :smt097

[Jamz]

Well, unless......

Nah - you're probably right.

[masterofinsanity]

i can also ban IP addresses too believe it or not so if you want to waste your time and post as a guest go ahead, this forum is moderated daily so all posts will be deleted, why not go find some other forum to piss about on :smt097

[RedexRobB]

I did notice that little fuckwit Baz, i did give him some shitty replies then thought id take the higher mature ground and delete my posts, dont give him the attention he wants.

[Cro]

ok as some of you out there have problems understanding the last post i have now enabled account activation so if any new members join they have to get past me first. sorry its had to be like this!

Hey m8 just joined a few mins ago and didn't need to activate my account before starting a new thread in the wanted section. Just thought I'd let you know so you can look into it.

[masterofinsanity]

i know, i ditched it after the posts died down. don't like to keep my members waiting!

[masterofinsanity]

THAT ALSO INCLUDES CHEAP FLIGHTS, THERE ARE SEARCH ENGINES AVAILABLE ON THE NET EG "GOOGLE" IF WE WANT CHEAP FLIGHTS WE'LL LOOK FOR THEM, THIS IS A BIKE FORUM SO GO POST YOUR CRAP ELSEWHERE!!!!!!!!!!! :smt013

[masterofinsanity]

we don't want no cheap cigarettes either !

[deviant]

I haven't actually read any of the posts in question, but I'd hazard a guess they are probably posted by spambots rather than human beings. Shouting at them won't do anything. Disabling guest posting as you have done ought to make a difference.

[masterofinsanity]

well i work 24 hrs to keep this forum in order, but banning ip addresses every 2 feckin mins takes the piss hence stopping guests posting for the time being, feckin tossers, looking into security posting such as image verification.

[deviant]

Like I said, they're mindless bots set running by some evil money making bugger who doesn't give a toss about the amount of time you spend sorting this out for us.

I reckon you'll have done a lot by stopping guest posting - it's one thing writing a script to reply to forum threads, but more of a job writing one to register, login and post. It might inconvenience some people, but not much. It will certainly stop the huge number of 'sorry that was me above' posts from people forgetting to login!

If it comes to the point where you need image verification, I'm sure someone on the phpBB forums will have come up with a solution. My blog got infested with a load of spam comments a while back so I had to do something similar - and sure enough there was an answer on the Greymatter forums already. Some sort of human verification on registration, combined with no guest posting, and you are sorted without any inconvenience to people who are prepared to register.

Lastly, love the site and the forum. Don't let the monkeys grind you down.

Dave

[masterofinsanity]

yeah a frequent a lot of php upgrade sites and working on lots of hacks at the moment, it can only get better.