Increasing amounts of spam bots

[e30shmobberr]

damn this is a tough one

[Nsquared97]

No we aren't. We do have lives. Plus I'm on my phone trying to ban and delete all the spam.

Hey Jason, does reporting posts help you guys do this any quicker/more efficiently or no?

[AsharC]

They are going ham. LOL, pun intended.

[dothadance]

i thought yesterday was bad. this morning... holy shit.

[ohthejosh]

It's as if they read this thread and felt threatened and attacked the site while most of R3v was asleep. Spammers be reading the art of war by SUn Tzu dawg.

[JasonC]

Hey Jason, does reporting posts help you guys do this any quicker/more efficiently or no?

The reported post goes to our personal email. And I'm the type of guy who only checks it a few times a week. I can't speak for the others, but yeah it does help. Evermore so when the spam post is in a thread and don't have its own thread

[Massimo]

I wonder weather the ip addresses of the spammers are from a particular country/countries?

Could just block all I IP's from said country/countries, and if someone from said country/countries wants to join the forums they will have to email a moderator. Simple solution if you ask me.

[JasonC]

I've been looking at the IP and seems to be different ones. I've been doing this mainly from my phone, so its been a little more on the difficult side to keep up with it all.

[MonkeyMadness]

I just Bought some land in Nigeria! :up:

[Herr Faust Schinken]

I just Bought some land in Nigeria! :up:

was it payed for by a check from an african prince lol

[Fusion]

Forum version is pretty outdated. Are there any options for captcha during registration?
The attacks are worldwide on tons of forums, not just vBulletin.

[Massimo]

Here is another idea. Back to the spam subforum. Say if everyone with 1000+ posts was given the ability to send threads/posts to the subforum. Like a simple spam button. That way the majority of the users can help with the issue.

Oh and if anyone miss uses it, I believe the ban hammer will solve that problem.

[blackhawkimpact]

Just have people pay up $1-$3 when registering and refund the money within 24hrs.

[Cronopoulos]

jesus, its bad tonight! IP ban africa first...

[Herr Faust Schinken]

jesus, its bad tonight! IP ban africa first...

just not south Africa they have some pretty cool e30s