NotAMod wrote:
NO Regret wrote:
spammers will get on any forum sadly. i dont think setting up a new forum will make the slightest difference.
Plenty of forums operate spam-free. The reason NOOL is so badly affected at the moment is because it operates an archaic registration process which is easy to exploit. The new forum's signup procedure is not strong enough either because (as far as I can see) it's not that much more secure than this old one right now.
Adding more mods is not the solution besides who can really be arsed mopping up passport spam all day long? I know I couldn't. The offending "members" producing the garbage need their accounts to be deactivated and the registration process beefed up with extra security.
The logical suggestion would be add an easy New Order related question to the validation process as well as making moderators approve accounts before anyone's allowed to post for the first time. They use account approval on JD Central and the Doves forum so why we can't do it on here is a mystery. It would not only take care of the spam bots but also some of the nastier trolls NOOL has seen over the years.
Well at least there is a captcha, so machines will have a harder time. But there is also the moderation feature that I didn't enable, which requires mod to validate messages (I assume we can do this only to new users)
Can't do miracles, but in terms of security it's an upgrade, and it is a HUGE upgrade in easing the job of the moderators.
Major reason that was a problem is the lack of power of moderators to ban/suspend users. Althugh the last attack couldn't have been prevented by anything other than something preventing you to post more than 1 message every x minutes, I believe the new forums have that.
