Man, I'm earning my "pay" now...

[Just Tony]

I forgot about the sheer body of spammers before. Oh, well. That's what IP bans are for...

[Kakapo42]

When it rains it pours. They don't usually show up, but when they do, it's dozens upon dozens at once.

I just wish I've been doing a good enough job at loosing bodkins into their throats and then melting silently back into the woodland foliage (by which I mean flagging the spam content as soon as I see it).

[TinyLegions]

Yep, we are getting a lot, and I have been dropping the ban hammer quite a bit myself the past few days. Clearly this website has been found by the dregs of internet society at least.

[Just Tony]

I do appreciate the reports and I'm on here multiple times a day to keep the peace.

Sherriff Tony.



lol

[TinyLegions]

"Sherriff Tony" I like it. Say hello to your new rank.

[Just Tony]

WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TinyLegions]

I upped the anti where any new users must verify by email. Hopefully that will slow down the spamming. I don't want to escalate to where we need to approve new board members, but I will if necessary.

[Just Tony]

Well, if the IP bans work at all it may slow them down even more

[TinyLegions]

I removed a lot of suspicious accounts over the past two days or so. Hopefully that will stem the tide for a while.

[Just Tony]

Thanks for all who report these when they hit. I just had to dump 13 posts from the same spammer. Ironically they actually created a thread to ask about advertising on here. Given the Russian real estate spam that they were posting I felt justified in banning and then post deleting.

[TinyLegions]

The ads are something that I need to work on with this site. Its on the "To Do list" when I get some free time coming up. I have quite a bit of PTO left that I need to burn up so I think that I can carve out a day or two and add some things to the site.