Spambots

JkPwNsTeR · 07-20-2008

Lately, there's been way too many. I suggest that we make a forum that only the "Stalker" level can see, and they'll have to be promoted manually by an admin or mod, to be able to post elsewhere.

tails2 · 07-20-2008

Care to elaborate on what you mean by stalker?

JkPwNsTeR · 07-20-2008

It's the "rank" when you have no posts. I'm a "Junior Member", you're a "Member", you get the idea.

Job · 07-20-2008

and I am a valued member...
a stalker is someone with 0 posts? Not really a nice term to use

tails2 · 07-20-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by JkPwNsTeR

It's the "rank" when you have no posts. I'm a "Junior Member", you're a "Member", you get the idea.

That's what I was thinking, but I hadn't seen anyone with no posts in a long time so wasn't sure.

JkPwNsTeR · 07-21-2008

But anyways, that's my proposal to help isolate the spambots until they are confirmed as humans.

tails2 · 07-21-2008

Sounds like a good idea. Maybe he should clear out the members that have 0 posts also that have not logged in in a certain amount of time, like about 6/9/12 months.

SteveMB93 · 07-21-2008

I don't think that's necessary. It's not that bad. If it was worse, I think it would be better if there were members that could delete the topic if it were spam. Or you can have it where if so many people report the topic, the topic gets deleted.

JkPwNsTeR · 07-21-2008

I manage Zetaboards forums, it's not possible there, but I'm not sure about vBulletin.