I am not an IT guy. So, these suggestions may be easily refuted.....

How about a "pre-forum" forum where new members must post several times over the course of a few days before allowed to post on the other forums?

How about a "not a BOT" popup for new members. Attempt to make them prove they are legit.

Our registration system already has a captcha. And we already screen new members, giving them very limited privileges before they can start posting fully.

Also there is very much not a spam issue on HN. Hardly any spam at all. Looks to me like our tools are working great.

Ya your tools are working great for a MAKE IN CHINA piece of crap.

:D Al

? ?

Here are the members signed on 3:18 PM eastern time on a Sunday afternoon. No spammers...right


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How is it I don't ever get spam on this site?

You don't get it the site does. Most days the majority of signed on members are spammers. You are posting on a hunting web site when most of the members aren't hunters but are either spam bots or people looking to sell something. That fact is why there are so few regular contributing members on a site that had thousands just a few years ago and it appears that is OK with Admin. Without real contributing members any web site is dead. 1000 real members are better than 250,000 spammers.

I think your definitions differ from many of us. If you look at Champlain Islander's post about all of the spammers logged in as members at 3 in the morning, it's kind of obvious that the system isn't preventing a lot of spammers and the tools aren't working so well. But like I said, it depends on your definitions for the words you used.

That was 3 in the afternoon Elkman....today. Within a half hour they were all gone so I can only imagine the reason why they were on. I suspect one of those blitzes the mods fear is set to launch. I remember dealing with a few of them when there were spam posts in all the forums. It took a few hours to get the site back to normal so the regular members didn't have to deal with it.

3 PM???? I can see why not many Admin or Mods are on at 3 AM but at 3 PM, you would expect at least one to be online. Do they check in every day or just Monday through Friday?