Spammers

[Trundle]

I really think that at least for now the forum needs to stop new members joining for a little while.

Yes it's extreme but the spam problem is getting worse and worse. Stopping new members being able to sign up at least gives us time to think of a proper idea to prevent it happening.

[Freesub]

Yes, the forum is nearly unusable at this point
Stopping member creations till we find a solution is necessary imo

[dublinjohn]

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)

[Kazu]

ISP log for the spammers (got to be possible)

This would be possible, but probably not very useful as it can be spoofed or set up through a rented platform, like AWS. A new instance with a new IP can be created manually in minutes, probably seconds automated.

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)

These would probably be the choices go forward with in the long run. Sorry mods. Maybe another one or two could be added for the time.

[Azrael]

So just curious. What about a verification thing? Like pick every picture with a bus type shit.

[dublinjohn]

So just curious. What about a verification thing? Like pick every picture with a bus type shit.

I think its a human rather than a bot

[Buckaroo]

What happened?

I thought new membership was turned off.

[edithdick]

So just curious. What about a verification thing? Like pick every picture with a bus type shit.

I think its a human rather than a bot

It's clearly a human creating the accounts, but probably a bot posting the content... too many times they have used fake accounts designed to mimic real users like Girlpns and Darkly.

I am in favor of restricting new accounts for a week before they can post, if that is a posibility

[Buckaroo]

Restricting new accounts for a week is not enough. Restricting them to all post approvals for a month is needed.

Approving posts can't be as much work cleaning up this crap.

[Buckaroo]

I did a whois on the website. Can someone complain about abuse and get them shut down?

Name: camfree.co.uk
Internationalized Domain Name: camfree.co.uk
Registry Domain ID: D_84081437-UK
Domain Status:
clientTransferProhibited
Nameservers:
dns1.namecheaphosting.com.
dns2.namecheaphosting.com.
Dates
Registry Expiration: 2025-10-04 18:17:50 UTC
Updated: 2024-10-04 18:18:04 UTC
Created: 2024-10-04 18:17:50 UTC

Name: Namecheap, Inc.
IANA ID: NAMECHEAP-INC
URL: https://www.namecheap.com/
Abuse contact email: abuse@namecheap.com
Abuse contact phone: tel:+1.6613102107

Registry Server URL: https://rdap.nominet.uk/uk/domain/camfree.co.uk
Last updated from Registry RDAP DB: 2025-02-12T00:35:25.437Z