Re: Excessive spamming on CD
 

It's OK, Taylor, size isn't everything.

Ontopic, I feel like having a report function for PMs would be an excellent idea, but feel like kramarczyk is overreacting. If they're a spammer, then most likely they're sending messages out in bulk, so multiple people can still report them. However, if a message is reported that's not spam, (maybe someone is arguing through PM?) then that one report would block that user from the site.

Re: Excessive spamming on CD
 

Using the members advanced search, you can search for members joining after a certain date. You can also sort by join date.

I did that yesterday and found 26 of the 52 people who joined in the last 5 days were obvious spammers. This does not count the people who were banned by other moderators during that time period, so it seems that >50% of new members are spammers.

That does seem better then email, where 90% of all email is spam.

Re: Excessive spamming on CD
 

Has anyone received more than one spam pm?

Re: Excessive spamming on CD
 

Nope, just one here.

Re: Excessive spamming on CD
 

I'm kind of impressed that I haven't gotten a spam PM yet. Maybe because I haven't been posting a lot...

Does anyone know if this is just a huge problem here, or are multiple vBulletin forums being attacked?

Re: Excessive spamming on CD
 

No other forum I use has had this issue. :ahh:

Re: Excessive spamming on CD
 

Perhaps an enhanced user registration system should be used.

Re: Excessive spamming on CD
 

I'm on a few forums, and the spam attacks go in waves. CD isn't the worst, but it also isn't the best.

It depends on whether the spammers are computers or not. If the vbulletin captcha had been broken, I'd expect many more spammers, not only here but on other vbulletin forums. There is also the NoSpam! verification question which asks FIRST related information. It's unlikely someone would program a computer to break just CD's questions.

That makes me think these are actual humans doing the spamming (or at least the registering), and makes an enhanced registration system much more difficult.

I think it would be better to focus on some of the things in the following thread, to make the spam less useful and harder to get started with. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...247#post972247

Re: Excessive spamming on CD
 

Some forums I have registered for require a waiting period while an admin/mod checks out all of the information you have supplied. This sort of manual selection works very well.

Re: Excessive spamming on CD
 

I'd really feel uncomfortable if the CD registration experience became intimidating for a "good faith non poster" - i.e. someone registering to send a PM to a user about their robot or whatnot. Spam is annoying, but not so annoying that we should make our user experience require background checks.