Careful what you post!!!

[NorthernBoy]

Please be considerate of others when you post links to videos. We have under age people viewing these threads. Unexceptable material includes; sexual content, racial bias, most things rated R or higher would be unexceptable as well.

This is a zero tolerance rule and you will be banned for violating it. Remember when you post we get your ip address and can also report you to the proper authories if you expose minors to inappropriate material!

[DemonShark]

Also if you see a susposicois link dont click on it tell one of us mods and will see what it really is!

[Full3R]

Did someone post something like that?

[NorthernBoy]

Yup. I deleted it earlier. He is banned now!

[DemonShark]

I fully deleted it

[Severus]

Was it just a spammer or an active member?

[NorthernBoy]

probobly just a spammer. I havent seen him b4.

[Lady Hobbs]

It would be nice if spammers actually CARED but they don't. Anyone who would post smut on a community board has a problem and posting on a board that has young people is a low- down dog with no morals of their own.

[Lady Hobbs]

Ahhhhhhh.....guess they are not reading this thread. I have deleted either 7 or 8 today. Lost count!

[crackatinny]

Like this new blokes post, Skydadt, check his posts. I have come across a few like this in the past couple of days.

[crackatinny]

Or this one

[crackatinny]

Another sicko
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aquariumforum/showthread.php?t=2196

[Lady Hobbs]

It's been deleted and he's been banned. It's been really bad this past week especially.

[crackatinny]

Thanks hobbs, any chance of putting in a thread in the main part of the forums for reporting this sort of trash

[Lady Hobbs]

Just yell for a moderator. It's the first thing I check for when I log in. Some are pretty bad.

Actually, it would be nice if moderators had a little star or something next to their names so people would know they were a moderator. Or....Moderator under their signature.

[crackatinny]

Ok HOBBS its me again

The party pooper, the dobber

Afraid I lost my temper with this one and replied, seems this sort of trash know when you yanks are sleeping.

But as long as there are Aussies on here to keep up the night watch, we will try to keep them away

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aquariumforum/showthread.php?p=15616&posted=1#post15616

[DemonShark]

Ok we will try to stop the flow of bad emails from a difrent aprroach

[Lady Hobbs]

Many of the sites you register in will request an email addy and when it's submitted, you have to wait for a confirmation email from the site. In this way, that email addy is no longer useable and you are unable to sign in again under another name and use that same address.

I have banned 8 or 9 users in two days and others just deleted. It's been nuts this last week especially. One of them today had actual nude pictures. Another problem is that even if they are banned, they still remain in the Members List. I'd venture that many of those members were spammers and that's why you see so many that have never posted. They sign up, do their dirty deed and then remain on the Member List forever.

I tried to log into a site the other night that would not accept my login due to "inactivity" after 3 months. Of course when I tried again to register, got a message that my email was already in use so that's another way to keep repeaters from returning. Kept me out and I'm not even a spammer. :)

I don't know of any other way to keep them out. I do wish we could clean out that Members List, tho, and get rid of all those names of people who haven't been on the forum for ages or who have never even posted. I have a feeling that many of those are repeaters who just register under another name.

[NorthernBoy]

Most spammers are bots and will never actually return. We just have to remain on top of it and delete the posts as they appear unfortumately.

[William]

Yes. Most, almost all spam are mad by bots so banning or not doesn't make much difference.

I will look into removing banned users from userlist. However a lot, I would say the mayority of the users that have no post are legitimat users who just never posted. The trick is to get such user to start posting.

I really appriciate the great work the mods do.

[William]

FIX: Banned users are not viewable in the userlist!

[turbomkt]

I'd still second the suggestion to make moderators more obvious (Title under name similar to William's "Administrator"). This can also help when a thread starts to go astray and the mod tries to keep it on track...but people don't realize it's a mod and don't take the directions seriously.

[Lady Hobbs]

Spam comes in so many forms from car insurance to cell phones to baby diapers but for some reason, this site gets the lowest of the low. It's also strange that none will show up for several days and then wham.....6 will come all at once, which makes me feel they were the same person registering but as you mentioned, probably just bots.

I do have an idea that will put some work on the moderators but will reduce that Member List. I suggest we all take a group of names, for instance, I'll take A's thru D's and send a message to each Member and invite them back if they joined anytime in 2006. If they haven't been here for a year or more, just delete them. It's easy enough to see when they logged in last. If they haven't logged in for 6 or 7 months, send them an invite and ask them back.

I think it's a pretty safe bet that if they haven't been here for a year they aren't coming back, lost interest, had a computer crash or their fish died. :)

It'll be a big job going thru them all but, once done, a cleaned up and updated list and then maybe we can stay on it the end of every year and hopefully get some members back. We would need the tools to delete those past Members or would have to send you a list which you probably wouldn't like because there will be a gaggle of them. I don't know if that option is open to us moderators now or not?

Our job as moderators here is to give you a hand so why not? We can certainly each do maybe 20 names a days. I'm willing.

[Lady Hobbs]

I'd still second the suggestion to make moderators more obvious (Title under name similar to William's "Administrator"). This can also help when a thread starts to go astray and the mod tries to keep it on track...but people don't realize it's a mod and don't take the directions seriously.

I agree. I know most don't know who the moderators are. And I do appreciate the heads-up on the spams since I check my messages first. kudos!

[William]

I will look into making it easier to see who is moderators.

Hobbs I'll take your idea under consideration however I am as you might no working a lot behind the scenes and should hopefully soon be able something similar automatically and it might be better to wait untill than.

[William]

I have finally gotten the proverbial thumb out of my …….. and changed to another registration process to cut down on spam. I know of a number of forums that had spam problems and this system eliminated the problem. Some of those forums have gone a month or more without any spam at all. We will just have to wait and see if it helps us as well. Please let me know if you se a drop or increase in spam the coming week.

If this system don't work I'll combine the old and the new which would work even better but I don't wan to make to hard (much work) to register and scare members away if I don't have too.

The new system is based on questions and you are welcome to suggest questions for it. Just remember that it has to be questions that all humans can answer. I.e. very very easy if you’re a human and not a bot.

However it should be said that systems like these can never prevent human spammers, just bots, but since almost all spam are made by bots …….

[Lady Hobbs]

Wonderful and what the heck......it can't hurt. Thanks so much for all your hard work making this such a neat place to hang.

:22:

[Lady Hobbs]

No spam in three days! :19:

[jeffs99dime]

that's good. spammers are worthless!

[William]

Good to hear. Hope it stays this way.

[jman]

Spam comes in so many forms from car insurance to cell phones to baby diapers but for some reason, this site gets the lowest of the low. It's also strange that none will show up for several days and then wham.....6 will come all at once, which makes me feel they were the same person registering but as you mentioned, probably just bots.

I do have an idea that will put some work on the moderators but will reduce that Member List. I suggest we all take a group of names, for instance, I'll take A's thru D's and send a message to each Member and invite them back if they joined anytime in 2006. If they haven't been here for a year or more, just delete them. It's easy enough to see when they logged in last. If they haven't logged in for 6 or 7 months, send them an invite and ask them back.

I think it's a pretty safe bet that if they haven't been here for a year they aren't coming back, lost interest, had a computer crash or their fish died. :)

It'll be a big job going thru them all but, once done, a cleaned up and updated list and then maybe we can stay on it the end of every year and hopefully get some members back. We would need the tools to delete those past Members or would have to send you a list which you probably wouldn't like because there will be a gaggle of them. I don't know if that option is open to us moderators now or not?

Our job as moderators here is to give you a hand so why not? We can certainly each do maybe 20 names a days. I'm willing.

Haha never looked at this before

[Severus]

Now that i think about it, we have been spam free for quite a long time. Good work William

Knock on wood