[FORUM] We really need to fix spam (Page 2 of 2)

I disagree with that ideas. I'm not a spammer, but I am fond of write replies and topic without "teeworlds" or other words. I'm not a spammer, but I amnt ready to follow all antispawn rules. I can forget something, but im not a spammer (again, again and again!).

All antispamm programms are able to ban simple players.

I think that only brain can divide players into bots and simple players.

And to add onto that, the "Teeworlds" idea has already beeen said to be more or less a joke but Landil's links look promising. I haven't looked at them but I hope one of more of them will be put into action. Good work Landil.

The spam comes from humans, not bots. The only thing that would probably work is Askimet but it's for PunBB 1.2 only. it's not like I haven't tried various antispam extensions.

phpbb3 is coming closer ^^
take a look at http://friends-clan.tk
that is how a website could look with joomla and phpbb3, just some teeish gfx and it would be perfect as teeworlds.com

offtopic?

Honestly I don't understand why they are attacking Teeworlds. Is there any particular reason why they advertise here so heavily? Maybe if we knew that, we could stop them. Also, if they are mostly humans then "Janitors" does look like the way to go.
I know some of these ideas have been mentioned before but I have some suggestions for new members. No signatures, no avatars, and they can't post links or images until they have a post count of 15 or until a moderator approves a full membership. If they try post a link/image it would be automatically removed and the reason would be visible to them. Of coarse they leaves open the opportunity to have mass useless messaging until their post count is 15, so, (to reduce the opportunity) new members literally aren't allowed to double post. Meaning, if they comment and try to comment again, they have to wait until another member comments before the system would allow them to comment again. Also, new members couldn't post on more than 5 topics a day or ether have a waiting period of 10 minutes before they can comment on a different topics. This doesn't apply to commenting on the same topic because I know most new members create question related topics and as such they need to be able to comment again if they have more questions.

They don't give a shit about Teeworlds, they just want to advertise. It's not a way to attack the forum, just a way to make cheap profit.

Profit > Cost => Go on!
Companies' logic.

Dune got it. Most of the spam is fully automated --> costs per spam entry is nearly 0 --> even if 1 of 1000000 readers clicks on the link they make profit. Besides they profit from better google search rankings.

The spam applications only need some human help if sth. goes wrong. E.g. if they cannot answer recaptcha or some "am I human" questions. But of course creating topics, posts and links is automated.