Spam
 

So seriously, there has been an onslaught of spam lately.

Can we have some kind of system setup so that when someone registers, they have to access their email to click on a link and activate their account before they post?

They already have to. I'm trying out other mods, but none yet seem to give us what we want.

Sorry, I guess I did that too when I signed up, just can't remember...

I wonder what other boards do?

At work we ban most forign IP ranges, but our business is exclusively American. I would ban the major countries these attacks are coming from if we don't already have users from there.

we are working on it
 

we are working hard to come up with a solution to this problem.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

Codefreak

I have an idea that may help. What would you think about making it so a new member has to use a captcha for their first 10 posts or so. Maybe even for all of their posts until it has been verified somehow that they are a real person and not some bot. Yes it would be somewhat annoying to new members but if it helps to reduce spam then I think everyone would be ok with it. This is my first post and I would rather have to go through some 'initiation' like that then see a great looking page be overrun with spam. :)

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