:: View topic - TWIZZ OR WHOEV: WE ARE GETTiN SPAMMED OUT!!!!!

Lots of threads to delete on here and users to eliminate.

Either that or there are just a lot of builders who fund their hobby with a job as a mobile phone salesperson or movie reviewer.

When I did my backup forum experiment (now shutdown because skibuilders has been going well) I used phpBB3 which has a lot less trouble with spam. There are a lot of threads on the php forum about stopping spam. I found the most effective method to get rid of spammers was to make it compulsory to answer a multi-choice question when registering (along with the captcha word entry - auto spam programs can break this now I think). The question should be related to ski/snowboard

eg. Who is the father of rocker skis? then have 3 different possibilities to fool the spambots.

I think the main trouble is that this is only possible in phpbb3 and as our forum is running on php original I think it has been around a long time and the spambots have it sussed out.

I don't know about the upgrade to phpbb3 - shouldn't be too hard though I think.

who is the rocker father? Shane Mcconkey, Steven Drake or Gene Simmons? haha...

Yeah man, I delete them as soon as I see them. Unfortunately I'm only a moderator, not an admin, so I can't delete user accounts (I don't think?). And I'm not a moderator of some of the forums, like the for sale forums, so I can't delete those posts/threads.

The worst part is that Kam has nobody as a moderator of the commercial for sale forum! It's a free for all!