Do the moderators have any control over the who is allowed on the memberlist ?
There seems to be a lot of new members who are certainly not interested in MOHO or any other drawing/animation topics but solely to advertise their wares on their web sites.
moderators control
Moderators: Víctor Paredes, Belgarath, slowtiger
Re: moderators control
the short answer is no, moderators acannot do anything about member sign up. that is regulated by the forum administrator. Only he has the "God" authority which enables who is in or out.bunnyb wrote:Do the moderators have any control over the who is allowed on the memberlist ?
There seems to be a lot of new members who are certainly not interested in MOHO or any other drawing/animation topics but solely to advertise their wares on their web sites.
What you are seeing is spambots, authomated programs which log onto forums and post spam to preset forum topics. Basically, a company searches the web for forums using this software. They then manually enter the forum, list certain topics as good for spam then enter the data into their software. They then sell this service to clients, saying they will publicise the client site or products on X number of pages worldwide. The majority of these companies are in the old soviet countries and their dependants (Ukraine, Romania, etc).
These autoposting programmes can be limited by the latest version 2.2.20 of the forum software - I have this on my forum and it stops 98% of the problems. Lost Marbles might want to give serious consideration to upgrading because the spambots are in full flood at the moment.
You will never stop all of the spammers, they will always get through. But the moderators do get them (and some are very sneaky - one posted links to his "buy precription drugs" site by coding the links only in the punctuation marks ... not bad but we are better
).This is not a problem but an advantage - I'm in asia and working when most of the US is asleep ... that is when I get most active in dumping posts.One of the problems is that moderators may well be in different time zones so they don't always jump on them immediately.
Curiously, I had to dump one post not becasue it was spam but becasue it was posted in the wrong area - had it been in the miscellaneous chit chat, there would have been no problem to having the message posted - having it in Moho 5 area meant instant carnage and distruction ... I don't think I can move a post using the current settings.
Bear with us ... most spam and inappropriate stuff gets killed within 4 hours. But a very sneaky and determined poster can slip one through if they post a straight message then goes back some days later and changes the contents - those are hard to spot as they get lost in the overall message stack. If you see one which has been missed, send a PM to one of the Mods telling them where it is and we'll kill it.
Rhoel
As a normal user, I have the problem that the highlighting of the new posts is not working if somebody changes only an old message. These changes could be interesting but remaining hidden in the lists. Is there any solution? The new version works differently?But a very sneaky and determined poster can slip one through if they post a straight message then goes back some days later and changes the contents
- - - Fazek
Eventually Mike will have to add one of the phpBB modules that reduces spam signups through different authetication mechanisms. Even though you kill spam they remain in the memberlist and on the profile pages; one of the web designs forums I popped in on suggests that large numbers of porno and spam links like this, if picked up by search engine spiders, can cause the site to be blocked by the automated software resulting in less relevant hits when people are searching.
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