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Floods of spam
« on: April 04, 2016, 03:25:02 pm »

Can anything be done to clamp down on the hideous amounts of spam that we've been getting over the last few weeks?  :thinking: :fighting2:

Driving me nuts lol
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2016, 03:26:38 pm »
Spam posting on the forum?

Up the security for registration.
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2016, 03:27:01 pm »
You mods must be doing a good job as I can't say I've noticed any?

SeatCupra.Net on the other hand - been loads lately and very little action from the mods on there
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2016, 03:27:18 pm »
I don't know if it shows before it's been approved but there's been loads
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2016, 03:27:52 pm »

It's constant. The odd ones seem to be getting through and reported
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2016, 04:52:29 pm »
The ones I've noticed is the same person spamming as many threads as he can will porn links and it's not vehicle porn, I mean what's the matter with those Russian dickheads!
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2016, 04:52:45 pm »
Quote from: Dan_FR on April 04, 2016, 03:27:01 pm
You mods must be doing a good job as I can't say I've noticed any?

SeatCupra.Net on the other hand - been loads lately and very little action from the mods on there

You wont see it as all first posts that new members make have to be approved before they are shown.

We did this so that the general forum members wouldnt see the f*ck loads of spam posts.
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2016, 05:06:01 pm »
Another 40 odd

It's a pain cause I don like to delete them en mass in case of deleting genuine posts from new users



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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2016, 05:11:45 pm »
Youll have to get daz to set the captcha to advanced.
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2016, 05:19:40 pm »
I can honestly say I never clicked any of those links  :grin:
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2016, 05:21:11 pm »
Quote from: rich83 on April 04, 2016, 05:11:45 pm
Youll have to get daz to set the captcha to advanced.

@dazza can we have sodoku level 1000 before being able to register? Lol
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2016, 05:23:25 pm »
Quote from: Tfsi_Mike on April 04, 2016, 05:21:11 pm
Quote from: rich83 on April 04, 2016, 05:11:45 pm
Youll have to get daz to set the captcha to advanced.

@dazza can we have sodoku level 1000 before being able to register? Lol

Lv 1 Suduko and I'm stuck!  :laugh:
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2016, 05:24:47 pm »
Quote from: MC71 on April 04, 2016, 05:23:25 pm
Quote from: Tfsi_Mike on April 04, 2016, 05:21:11 pm
Quote from: rich83 on April 04, 2016, 05:11:45 pm
Youll have to get daz to set the captcha to advanced.

@dazza can we have sodoku level 1000 before being able to register? Lol

Lv 1 Suduko and I'm stuck!  :laugh:

Same tbh haha
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2016, 05:36:38 pm »
Quote from: Tfsi_Mike on April 04, 2016, 05:21:11 pm
Quote from: rich83 on April 04, 2016, 05:11:45 pm
Youll have to get daz to set the captcha to advanced.

@dazza can we have sodoku level 1000 before being able to register? Lol

PMSL... that would be funny
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Re: Floods of spam
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2016, 05:43:55 pm »
Or explain how an epicyclic gearbox works in 200 (English) words.
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