The Spam is driving me nuts!!

[t_3]

Just give us some time unti the hoidays are over and we a re all back working again in the office next week

Radiance

ya, sure! go enjoy your honeymoon instead reading & posting the forum all day

[steveps3]

Just reported about 8 more spam posts, sighhh.

[steveps3]

holy C**P the new year has certainly brought out the spammers in spades.

[t_3]

holy C**P the new year has certainly brought out the spammers in spades.

~50 posts / >10 different spammers/bots until now (today)

[radiance]

Hi guys,

Until we have our redesigned e-shop that does not rely on a forum registration for a purchase anymore, we cannot do much against it right now.
We will need to continue like this for a few more weeks, and if there is too much spam, it means we dont have enough spam modators, so those who complain with a purple nickname, should think of applying as a moderator

Radiance

[bb3d]

I noticed, that this forum is based on phpBB. We had serious spambot problems at another phpBB forum until we installed the Anti Bot Question Mod. Since we use that, no single spam entry anymore.

This plugin is highly configurable. In addition to the standard captcha it presents a configurable question to the person who wants to register. It should be a simple question, that can be answered by anybody (except spambots), so you will not lose any customer. Installation and configuration shouldn't take longer than 1 hour for an experienced admin, but will save a lot of time for the moderators in the future

[pixelrush]

Yeah its really annoying that they won't do this.
Who wants to visit a forum with a lot of spam posts puked on it every few hours?

[steveps3]

I don't which is why, sadly, I only visit about once a week now just to see if there have been any software updates.

[t_3]

now this day marks a great new record: 100 spam posts withn 12hrs. nearly 1 new spam post every 5 minutes

[bb3d]

They also posted some pr0n images just for our pleasure (maybe rendered with Octane?)