Spam killers!!

[Lawrence_fx]

Hey Steve,

Thanks for raising this and our apologies for the disruption it's causing. We're working to ensure it's removed ASAP and prevented in the future.

Cheers

[Lawrence_fx]

Hi Steve,

Just an update - we took the forum offline to do some tidying and we're now back up and running. We're looking at further preventatives we can introduce to prevent further issues from occurring.

Thanks again for your vigilance and support.

Lawrence

[Kickflip]

It's been a couple of months and the forum's still regularly getting hammerspammed!

[Kickflip]

Spam's got really bad again lately, any new measures that can be brought in to hold it back a bit?

[kingtubby]

Spam's got really bad again lately, any new measures that can be brought in to hold it back a bit?

It might seem a bit drastic, but if it were up to me I would ditch this entire forum and re-invigorate the old kvr forum instead. At least spam isn't really a problem there. Currently it seems that they don't have the will or manpower to deal with the situation here.

[Kickflip]

Spam's got really bad again lately, any new measures that can be brought in to hold it back a bit?

It might seem a bit drastic, but if it were up to me I would ditch this entire forum and re-invigorate the old kvr forum instead. At least spam isn't really a problem there. Currently it seems that they don't have the will or manpower to deal with the situation here.

Not so sure about ditching the forum, as there's a lot of useful info here, and spreading it between two forums could get confusing... that said, Cypher 2's forum is on ROLI's site instead of this, which feels like an odd move.

it creates a really bad impression for any new users and just makes it impossible to find posts from people genuinly wanting help so they get ignored.

This is the bit that gets me the most... it's not a good look and could well be putting people off purchasing the software. Also at times when I've logged in to check the posts and the spam's been cleared, I've found posts from 2+ days ago that I could have helped with much quicker!

I don't understand why they can't just limit any unregistered people posting down to one post per day and that posts would need to be checked first. Hardly daconian or unfair and it would completly rid the forum of spam I think.

As I understand it it's newly registered users that are making the spam posts, unregistered users can't post. But yes, limiting new users to a few posts - I'd say maybe 5 as a genuine new user may have more than one question, this would be a good solution for the time being.

The Cakewalk forum allowed a handful of regular users to become moderators too which made a big difference.

Maybe not actually a bad idea. Was going to say I wouldn't be up for having to delete 1500 threads every day, but if you can just delete a user and all their spam posts in a couple of clicks, that'd make logging in a much nicer process. Could even deal with a certain troll while I'm at it

[kingtubby]

Spam's got really bad again lately, any new measures that can be brought in to hold it back a bit?

It might seem a bit drastic, but if it were up to me I would ditch this entire forum and re-invigorate the old kvr forum instead. At least spam isn't really a problem there. Currently it seems that they don't have the will or manpower to deal with the situation here.

Not so sure about ditching the forum, as there's a lot of useful info here, and spreading it between two forums could get confusing... that said, Cypher 2's forum is on ROLI's site instead of this, which feels like an odd move.

Maybe they could clear out all the spam here and close this forum to new members. That way the information would be preserved and new users encouraged to register at kvr instead. It's not ideal I know, but surely better than the current situation.