Matt Wise;407156 Wrote: > To be honest ... its all a work in progress right now. The fact is that > we have a serious spam issue and we're not sure what the best "fix" is > going to be. Unfortunately right now that means that we're trying > different things out to see how they behave. > > Ultimately, it may simply be a little bit more difficult to post, or > register, or both ... or it might not be, if we find another silver > bullet. > > One thing to keep in mind is that we're working within the confines of > VBB. Patches welcome. :)
I have noticed a huge trend in Spammers using a new account and their signature as a means of advertising. I hate to say this, but would it not be easier and better put any new account with a signuture "On Hold" until an Admin or Moderator can approve the new user account? Also could it be set so that any user with under 100 posts makes changes to their signature that the account is held until re-approved? This would not impact new users that need instant access to get Forum support as long as its made clear during sign up that adding a Signature will delay Forum posting access until approved by Admin or Moderator. Would this type of process help with the problem? -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: SB3, GFR-700HD, Thiel 2.3, Second Boom Home Office: SB3, NAD C370, two VSM-1 Home Gym: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, Thiel PowerPoint 1.2 Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61462 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss