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09-24-2011, 03:48 PM

After being a member for a a little bit now I agree that the spammers are evolving. It seems they are reading our ideas about having a post with actual conversation and not just a link because now the spammers are copying and pasting bits and parts of previous conversation and trying to make it their own while including a link.

I agree with you guys when you say a "captcha" system is the way to go.

If not, then some kind of time period has to be implemented in between posts and links definitely have to be eliminated from posts until after so many posts have been made.

I think the time period should be after one becomes a "JF Regular" (25 posts) then:

A) they could put a link in
B) No longer have to wait 5/10 minutes in between posts
- Doesn't seem like a hassle anyway since it takes that long to find a
thread, read through it, and decide if you want to post.

Also: We have observant people on here that report spammers/flame threads/etc and would be able to report a spammer copying and pasting parts of conversation just to make it a "passable" thread before they reach their 25 post initiation.

The main problem is---since the moderators seem to have limited rights and the administrator is not in contact with them -- can they even implement any of these ideas. If not, maybe they should just remove this entire part of the forum but .. do they even have the rights to do that lol
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