So how about add real accounts where no one can post without having a validated email address - which can be blacklisted?
And how about add a 'Report' button where it's enough if 2-3 people with 500+ posts press it to auto-hide the post. Or 5-10 people with maybe 25+ posts. And revoked rights to tag threads if abused for other purposes. Maybe even take a chance and let some users alone hide spam threads.
In the end, it's well known that the use of a captcha does not really help - there are too good libraries for auto-processing of them.
Maybe even be mean and requiring that a new account needs to wait for at least 1 hour before being allowed to make any posts to make it less fun for robot software to create an account and then pump in new threads.
This forum can only survive if spam threads are removed fast enough that it isn't meaningful to try to get Google and other search engines to catch and index the spam threads before the treads are dead. Right now, that is a failing battle because too much spam threads survives far too long - making this a top-priority site for adding even more spam.
and amply demonstrated this weekend!
There's even been a few spams making an attempt at an on-topic looking title.
The better spam software does scan a forum for magic keywords to add to better pretend.
But with the amount of spam now, I think the spam software will mostly pick magic keywords from other spam threads.
But this forum will die very quickly if nothing isn't done. A month or two and everyone will be gone. It's just too ridiculous that many individual users each should have to scan past 95% spam to locate real threads.
auto-hide the post would be cumbersome, make that "auto-hide posts by ..."
also, just making the spam 'read' is not very efficient, that bastards believe that as long as the post is there some idiot will read it
"also, just making the spam 'read' is not very efficient, that bastards believe that as long as the post is there some idiot will read it"
Not sure what you mean. Of course the intention is to make the posts inaccessible so normal users can't see them - then a Keil admin can quickly browse and verify that the hidden posts should have been hidden and aren't the result of someone abusing their powers by flagging valid posts by someone they do not like.
Not sure what you mean. the last batch of garbage is not removed, just marked read
Just marking spam as read wouldn't accomplish anything. There would still be pages after pages with spam, and Google would still pick up the spam posts making it valuable to add even more spam.
The only way to handle spam is to make sure that there are zero traces of the spam.
Even if you had only a couple of "moderating" users, I think this stuff could get killed really quickly.
If the site detects multiple off site links, the preview could provide an impossible to complete captcha, or merely suggested the one entered failed.
The TI forum does this - although it does sometimes get it wrong & block posts with "on-site" links!
Guys, it seems that the admin has turned his deaf ears. and that he is either headbent to not implement the registration-verification-login system or faces technical difficulties in doing so.
No need to turn any deaf ears. And no need for suffering any technical issues. Just that companies has lots of managers that may decide on other priorities.
Perhaps he's busy doing something about it rather than yabbering here with people he doesn't answer too in a business sense.
There are plenty of people lurking here who participate/communicate through secondary channels.
Totally agree. This crap is killing the forum. Keil needs a proactive moderator to kill the stuff. And the best captchas I've ever seen as questions:
what is the answer to a*2 + 5 where a is 2? These are almost foolproof.
there are fora that manage to stay (virtually) spam free without having the annoying captchas (except for registering)
Erik