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  1. John Holden

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    No I wasn't talking to you bluegene. And I'm not PO'd Eric. Sorry if I made it seem like I was. I've been following this on my phone and only trying to help because I've been through the same thing. Sometimes I just read the email notifications and I somehow missed the posts where you guys responded. Sorry about that! I was really just tryin to make you guys see what I was talking about but onviously (now) you alteady did. Like I said I was only being helpful in mentioning what worked for me in this same situation a few years ago.
     
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    Acornridgeman MCCI Wisconsin State Rep Moderator Supporting Member

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    Thank you John ............ :Handshake

    We really do appreciate all the help and suggestions from you guys, specially reporting bad posts.

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    He did, they do have questions. I know a few companies that will pay me 5 to 10 dollars an hour to sign up on forums for their spam bots.

    How ya gonna fix that?

    A friend of a friend owns a company that will pay me 2 dollars per account, I'm perfectly willing to admit that I have made the occasional fast buck selling off a few hundred accounts to competitor gaming guilds web sites in the past.
     
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    That just sucks!
     
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    Someone who spams is in the same class as a liar and a thief...shame on you. :naughty:
     
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    Eh, 5 years before that I would have just hacked their site and put pictures of dongs all over it. Which was how I got banned from Battle.net in the late 90s.

    Look at it this way, in competitive gaming usually the webmasters and site admins are top tier members of the guild. If you have them busy cleaning up their website you can get one over on them in the game. I don't consider it being a liar and a thief, I consider it a tactical advantage. Victory usually goes to the general who can decide what battlefield he fights on.

    (and not to sound racist or anything, but I usually only did that to the Korean clans/guilds)
     
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    Thanks. :thumbs2:
     
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    I did a few posts up.
     
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    Are you still seeing it?
     
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    Thanks for mentioning it. :thumbs2:
     
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    Im pretty sure these are people answering the questions.

    :rolleyes:
     
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    Acornridgeman MCCI Wisconsin State Rep Moderator Supporting Member

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    He should clear his cache - I am clean I swear ....... :dance: :rofl2:
     
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    I'm not proud of it, but at least I'm honest. It's a pervasive issue all this spam. Really slows everyone down and wastes a lot of time. And just about everything you can do to make it more difficult on the spammers makes it more difficult on your desired userbase.

    The best thing you can really do is have automated scripts to clean up the spam.

    One site I used to use frequently asked users to use a specific keyword when reporting spam threads, then an automated script would delete the thread and ban the user. Every now and then someone would get in a tiff and get someone banned, but it was pretty few and far between. That sort of thing works on a smaller community, but once your talking like over 10k users, its pretty certain that would never work.

    Also it can make the site noticeably slower depending on the server specs.
     
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    I've made a few tweaks that should keep them out.
     
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    I just grabbed a free version of malware bytes anti malware tonight and ran it but it didn't come up with anything. like i said they show up while using fire fox but not while running internet explorer
     
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