Lots O' Spam

[desert-rat]

Hear is what astral dynamics is doing , they check out people first . Making sure it is at least a real person .  http://www.astraldynamics.com.au/showthread.php?15706-BOARD-POLICY-CHANGE-Registration-and-Posting    desert rat 

[Lionheart]

 Thank You for the link Desert-rat, I shall bring it up to Adrian and David and the other Moderators here.

According to their site though, it's not fool proof though and can irritate new members who accidently get passed over.

[desert-rat]

Another site has a " common post area " open to non members .  Prospective members can post there and if the site owner likes what they have posted will acecpt them .    The spam does not bother me , but I can see where it is a problem for the site .  desert rat 

[ChopstickFox]

*guiltily steps forward* I know I should have just ignored it... But I couldn't resist :3

[Lionheart]

 I just wanted to update everyone here on the current situation.

As you can see the spammers are attacking with full force. We also have been attacked with a DDOS attack, which slows the system down greatly. So slow, that you may not be able to log on at times.

I just wanted to Thank You all for your patience and to say that we are trying currently working on rectifying this problem.

Just know though, that when one of the Moderators logs on, we immediately begin to remove the spam posts from this Forum.

But on a day like today when there was over 30 of them, it takes a while to achieve this.

Once again, Thank You for your patience!  

[Astralsuzy]

You are doing a great job getting rid of the spam.  I do not read the spam.  I ignore it so they are wasting their time.  If everyone ignores it, they might get tired of it so the spam may stop.

[Xanth]

Sadly, we found out recently that they don't actually post it for it to get read.
They post it so that their "name" gets out there more and they get a higher google index #... the higher your index #, the closer to the top your searches appear for people when they google search you.  >_<

[Anonymouse]

 

I really can't.., god. Never mind 

[desert-rat]

I thought they were trying to make money from the spam posts .  Not really spam , but I remember an electronics forum that an automatic add would be posted on a thread , as I remember , for an electronics school, some parts places , ect. I guess it provided money to keep the forum up . 

[ForrestDean]

Looks like an all out assault today.  Too many to even report. 

[fuzzywuzzy]

It's very likely that there is a "company" selling "link packages" to webmasters. They pay the company to get their website backlinks. The website owners probably don't know that their links are being spammed. The "company" probably has this website marked as one of their routine placed to put links, which is why it keeps happening.

[desert-rat]

Another forum that is getting hit worse that hear is http://www.paranormalforums.net/   , you need to be a member to read it tho. These look like different spam links . The ones that I have scene in the past few days there are porn sites , and alwayse the pharm drugs . ( viraga , ect.)

[Xanth]

What they (and the Pulse) need is a good black list checker.
I put one on my forums last week and my spammers were reduced by, literally, 99.9%. 

[Volgerle]

What they (and the Pulse) need is a good black list checker.

... so are the admins doing (installing) this now?

[desert-rat]

Unless they use a program to alter there i.s.p. number you could block there i.s.p. number . 

[Stillwater]

Yes, they do alter their IP's... it is pretty standard for their lot. In fact, we have seen the same spammer use over a dozen IP's.

[Xanth]

Yeah, there's no "blocking" anyone who is banned from the site.  All they need to do is get a proxy and adjust it.  It's really simple really.

Adrian, who is the only "admin", would have to install/setup something, and he's a very busy man these days. 

[Blazewind]

I've noticed it still horrible when it comes to the spam on this site in the last few days. I've not even reported it to the mods recently because there is just so much I fear I might overwhelm the moderator team's in-boxes.  Lol, maybe if we all post more and more int he way of useful topics, at least the spam would kind of be overlooked to a small degree?

[desert-rat]

Not really spam , but we had Buck_hornda .  A person making  very strange statements . That one of the mods was going to the 4 th dem. in a black hood , doing evil and some how making money doing this . As I think on this , this person either has mental problems , or they are on drugs .

[Xanth]

Buck is just a troubled individual.   
Suffice to say Adrian has been and is still dealing with the issues.

The spam has been greatly reduced, but as everyone can see it hasn't gone away yet.  The individual who began this, will be dealt with permanently one way or another.

But yeah, it's probably not a good idea to continue with the "report to moderator"... one of us will check the site every so often and remove all the spam we see. 
Thanks for the concern guys.  Just keep sending your good intent and energy to Adrian to give him the energy to fight this crap.