Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

Honestly, this is getting ridiculous.
Is there anything else we can do than just reporting and getting the thread removed?

Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

When I was a new user and I made my first post, wasn't there something like "your post may not appear until moderators approve it"? What happened to that?

Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

Well, it's a little controversial, but we could require team numbers.

Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

Is there anyway someone can track the IP adress of where these posts are coming from? Just an idea. Don't know if it can happen.

Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

Team 180 might object...;)

Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

As the Olympic Games are currently occurring, these will probably be posted with increased frequency. Be on the lookout, everyone!

Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

Yea I had to do the same, is that still something new users need to do? (also replying on this post makes people think this thread is a valid thread, maybe this is not the place to have this conversation)

I'm not sure. For me it didn't apply and my first post was immediate.

Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

I'm pretty sure I did the same.

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I sent a message to Brandon today. The issue is that most of the forums that get hit with heavy spam have very few mods. Like rumor mill only has 13 mods where the general forum has 31. The amout of spam across the site has increased, and the mods do the best job they can, but the Spammer find the sub-forums that don't have many active mods.

also many mods have disabled the email notifications for spam because of the volume which also doesn't help the problem.

Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

Happy to mod if he wants me to. I've only been around 14 years....

Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

Reported!

Just kidding. :p

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(emphasis mine)

Keyword "may".

Not to give them any ideas, but they'd eventually outsmart it, which would be worse.

Possibly, but I think they're in different places from different spammers, so it wouldn't stop all of them.

Definitely. It's pretty obvious if it's spam though, as the titles are nonsensical incomplete sentences. Don't get me started on the grammar...:p

That's it? I heard that you need to have maintained an active account here for at least 30 years...

Kidding!

The spam is becoming a bigger problem, but even though the mods aren't always able to remove it quickly, I'm not sure how effective it is for the spammers. We all know it's spam, and therefore don't click the links, thus not benefiting the spammers. Is there an email account confirmation? I can't remember. They're obviously bypassing the CAPTCHA...what if no hyperlinks are allowed in first posts or if the account is fairly new? Spam accounts rarely post more than once.

Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

Rather than continue discussion in a spam thread, let's use one of the many prior threads about spam prevention.

Everything mentioned here has already been discussed in those threads. Keep in mind, CD currently runs a very old version of vBulletin (the forum software). CD will be moving to a new software at some point:

Re: officers dragging a woman off the
 

Edited in. They've gotten around that one long ago.