Spam?

By Ian S.
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I think what they need to do (Or maybe they already have?) is for new members, members with fewer than say..10 posts, need to fill out a Captcha or something..To make it a little more difficult to spam..It's been pretty bad recently.

Or, check the title of new members. If it contains a bunch of special characters, to block them..They all seem to contain special characters, making it rather easy to spot as spam anyways..

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Ian S.

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Just report it and let them take care of it.

 

To be fair, for a forum as active and large as Neowin, we see very little spam compared to other places.

Second only to annoying spam, is threads about spam.

Rude much?

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Not at all. Take it as friendly advice from a guy who's run plenty of forums over the years. Threads about spam are as bad as spam.

OK, but I just wanted to let them know. BTW I still see more spam.

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Our spam filters help, but every once now and again we get a flood of spam that requires our moderators to work overtime to clear it. At times it takes a while to get it back under control. If we tweak the filters too much, we get some new members getting flagged as spammers. Thanks for everyone's understanding!

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