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Robert Brooks wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 12:12 am In the meantime, I found a simple way to hide the posts you don’t want to see, using the ‘foe’ list.
If you click on the spammer’s profile, you can ‘add foe’ and it hides everything they post. Just for you though.

See who thanked you, my foe list is massive, insert dirty joke here

My suggestions are

Signature ban until approved (set number off valid posts)

First 5 posts need to be approved (painful but got to be less work than deleting threads)

ISP log for the spammers (got to be possible)

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10. Restricting users to a small subset of the forum until they have X number of posts or Y number of days or something similar may help -- the bots will activate and spam those regions instead of the rest of the site.


I like this idea/suggestion, I can't believe that I didn't think to ...

Girlspns wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2025 3:45 pm Well, one of the new anti-spam countermeasures seems to be working, so at the very least the spammer won't have an easy time getting around it.

May you be proved correct

Maybe turn off new membership for now, until can figure out how to block these spammers


If its a human, which I think it is, we need to approve posts before they appear for people under a set number of posts and restrict signatures for another number of posts and as I've seen on another forum ...

PhilMarlowe wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 6:57 pm I am sure that some of us will volunteer to help with that moderation.

/Phil

I have, earlier in this thread, but the boss has to trust the people involved

Girlspns wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 12:18 am

If I didn't know this same MO happened in other forums, I'd suspect this dude has a personal vendetta against the forum itself, but that's just me being paranoid.

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you


"It’s not paranoia when it’s real." — Colonel Walsh, Doctor Who : The Zygon Invasion (Peter Harness, 2015)


I misquoted

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22 First ...

I imagine if you post clearly that its AI and not your own work it should be ok, I did a few short paragraphs on some AI links that were posted on this site last year and they were ok for my tastes (they would be, they were my prompts), but they weren't long enough for my tastes.

I just like ...

Maybe you could mention the ages of the characters? Other than that, good story




Over time, the busyness of life had created a wedge, we had got jobs in separate cities and now lived an hour away from each other, but we still met up every few weeks to have fun and catchup. Today was one of ...