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I've noticed a number of garbage postings being made recently. Any way to keep these off the site? Possibility might be to bar any postings for new members for a few days after signing up. Then maybe they would go elsewhere. I am a member of one sight that requires a 2-week waiting period before postings can be made.

I agree the spammers are adding garbage to the site. Good job on getting it cleaned off here in a short time in the past. I belong to a few other forums also that require some extra steps during the registration process.The Ross rifle administrator adds another step to the process.His solution to the problem is to email the potential member and ask them to respond with a sentence or two about their interest in the forum before approving the request.
The spammers and automated messaging are eliminated at the source before they can get on the site.Others require the typing in of a scrabbled set of letters that a computer generated spam can`t do.

DWalt wrote:I've noticed a number of garbage postings being made recently. Any way to keep these off the site? Possibility might be to bar any postings for new members for a few days after signing up. Then maybe they would go elsewhere. I am a member of one sight that requires a 2-week waiting period before postings can be made.

As with everything there are a group of folks whose life calling seems to be to make life miserable for others. As one conversation went: "But why"; responds, "Revenge"; but “Revenge for what?”; “For being born!" (from movie Tombstone).

There are several safe guards set up, repeatedly upgraded, and strengthened but as with all "big brother watching over us for our protection" each of these helps/limits cost something, limit our freedom, etc. and often discourage others from joining.

Personally, I think the folks in charge have done an admirable job policing the forum, keeping it functioning, and zapping the spammers as quickly as possible. That said, every once in a while we all get busy at the same time and “they” get through (particularly on the weekends). Regardless, many are zapped before anyone else sees them.

All to say every effort many times a day to stay on them and there new technology to get around our systems. Feel free to PM us anything you come across something that we have missed. Collectively it is our forum to police and keep fun, friendly, and with a family atmosphere - we appreciate the help.

(Hope this is not too disjointed, but felt this important to address right away to assure all that that we are the same page, but, my post surgery pain-drugs has made it difficult to determine if I spelled “I” correctly let along stuck the i in Mr Potato heads ear.)

Mitch is spot on, thank you sir.

Keeping out spammers is only as effective as the forum software. Unfortunately some out there have some sophisticated methods of getting around the CAPTCHA (the jumbled letters & numbers you enter to register). I'm literally on the administration board every other day deleting junk members. Banning by IP's doesn't usually work because they don't usually have static IP's. You'd be floored by the number of domains that are banned on this board...hundreds.

I'll see if there are any other options available, but the in meantime just ignore them if they get through. Thanks for the heads-up (and the patience!)

alright we've enabled queued posts which means if you have less than 1 post (new users), your initial post must be approved by a moderator/admin first. We'll try this and see if it makes a difference. If it doesn't then we'll go old school and change the registration enabling to the admin instead of to the user. The admin used to have to OK all new users but with so many BOTS registering it got kinda crazy. We'll see what happens!

Great - I think that just giving notice that first postings or responses will be vetted should be enough to get them to go to another site. That should be made very clear to anyone who wants to get full access to the site.

So far so good, got our first spam BOT post which was blocked and sent for moderator approval. The new settings will prevent this stuff from ever hitting the board publicaly; the only downside is we'll have to approve all 1st posts of new members. Success