nitrogen

We need a mod to ban those damn spammers. Stoner, are you there or are you going to give someone else admin/mod rights?

Sayo

Threads pruned. Users banned. They'll likely just change their ip, though.

Newnonimous

I forgot to thank you Sayo for stopping the spammer, you're simply the bomb! I know there will be more though in the future but if you could would you swing by every once in a while or if we inform you to make sure no more spammers appear? we'd all appreciate it.

nitrogen

This favel bastard is still there. So either he signed up again or it did not work.

I am aware of users changing their IP but we can just block their whole block if they are coming from an IP range that nobody else uses.

Dark Samus

Thank you, Oh powerfull Sayo, Nightmare of the Spammers, for bring the Ban to the Unworthy...Ok, That was lame....anyway, thank you very much Sayo-san, very much. But could you please return the tittle of Top poster to his original owner Newnonimous? Favel still has the higher ammount of post here, and the only thing it done was spamm and spamm and spamm.....I forgot to say that he spammed?XD That´s pretty unfair for poor Newnie.

10megaman

A lot of the spamming issues seem to come from "bots" rather than spammers. Essentially, these "bots" are for 2 reasons. 1) advertising. 2) phishing.

IP range ban is good, but deleting all the topics they made and their accounts on top of that is better. (A lot of forums have had this problem. Not just forums, but also some places like "Gaia Online" where random keyboard-letter-named accounts run up from three to four days online, advertising things nonstop.)

nitrogen

Thanks, Sayo, for doing the work and getting rid of some of them.

The only way to stop these bots to spam is to introduce a captcha upon registering that they cannot crack.

Newnonimous

You're too kind Samus

I was a hacker once back in my days but now Ive lost it all... Anyway what I was getting at is that if I remembered I would have track their ip and messed it up real bad as payback. I could learn it again but it just takes the fun out of surfing the web plus it's a cruel habit that I was doing.

10megaman

We need more ban-hammer-armed admins. Eh, you might as well give the somewhat more active members admin powers (What's it matter? We're not going to ban each-other. Though, we'd have fun banning the crap out of those annoying pests, erasing their accounts and posts, and blocking their IPs.) We need to be armed with this:

The ultimate weapon and perfect defense against the evils of of the evils of the spambots of evil. </Redundancy> Die, SpamBot Scum!
Speaking of which, we should also create an RPG-style RP where the active members fight against an army of robots (known as "SpamBots") in a cybersteampunk world. We can search the internet and develop character designs of cybersteampunkness to design the robots and the people that fight them. Plus, the Hammer of Ban can have a different transforming form for each person. This way, we have a place to remember the names of the evil spambots that harassed us, and that way we can have our revenge in stylish fun.

Now, we want to be more equipped to combat these evil spambots, and to keep them from taking over the forum! Who agrees with me?
Okay, I'm overdramatic.

nitrogen

I completely agree.