A Thank You to our Mods.

[guidofatherof5]

From the looks of the "Who's Online" over the last couple of days I know our Mods. have been very busy keeping the spammer off the site. I know little about what they do but I'm certain it's a lot more then we all realize.
Thank you Mods. for all you do.

[d_virginiana]

I used to be on a great frog forum; probably the best one I'd found, but I had to stop getting on it because of all the spam. You couldn't read the actual posts without also seeing five others that were pornographic. I went back to it a couple months later and it had actually shut down because of this. idk what they do either, but I'm glad that's never happened here.

[Spankenstyne]

I second Steve's sentiment. As a mod elsewhere I fully understand how it's a thankless position, the best ones usually go unnoticed.

I don't remember if it's the same here but a good way to combat spammers we've used elsewhere is to have all new accounts need to be approved by a mod or admin. A minor inconvenience but can save everyone countless hours of work. It's usually pretty easy to tell who the spammers are by the account info. Just a thought.

[ProXimuS]

I second these sentiments. I knows there's plenty of times that I'm sitting here being bored and nosey, and check out the "Welcome to our newest member" area on the bottom of the forum home page, and looking at the profile it's obvious its just some kind of advertisement/spam....


Thank you guys for keeping the forum clean:)

[guidofatherof5]

I second Steve's sentiment. As a mod elsewhere I fully understand how it's a thankless position, the best ones usually go unnoticed.

I don't remember if it's the same here but a good way to combat spammers we've used elsewhere is to have all new accounts need to be approved by a mod or admin. A minor inconvenience but can save everyone countless hours of work. It's usually pretty easy to tell who the spammers are by the account info. Just a thought.

That is done here also. I'm glad they can't post their crap on here before it is found/noticed.

[ConcinusMan]

Speaking of new members, here's one online right now working on their profile. Hasn't made any posts yet. View Profile: arrackiva - Garter Snake Forum (http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/members/arrackiva.html)

[ConcinusMan]

Speaking of new members, here's one online right now working on their profile. Hasn't made any posts yet.  View Profile: arrackiva - Garter Snake Forum (http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/members/arrackiva.html)

And another View Profile: czgafatol - Garter Snake Forum (http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/members/czgafatol.html)

Judging from the ICQ I.D.'s given for these two, (among other things) I think they're spammers.:cool:

[ConcinusMan]

Don't know what happened there. Oops. ^^^

[Stefan-A]

Here are the first two pages of General Talk, as viewed by a moderator:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/thamnoph/photos/garbage/generalspam1.jpg

http://koti.mbnet.fi/thamnoph/photos/garbage/generalspam2.jpg

[ConcinusMan]

Holy crud. Looks like they got you hoppin'

[ProXimuS]

Wow....Double thanks! That's really alot of crap...

[Stefan-A]

They have been aiming almost exclusively at General Talk, so this is pretty much it. Minus the couple of deleted threads on page 3 and the 20 or so I physically deleted before choosing the marginally quicker soft deletion. Plenty of time to clean up when the holes are plugged.

[ConcinusMan]

"soft" deletion?

BTW: more spammers incoming (registering/editing profile, etc.) too I see from "who's online" Jeez, I guess they don't give up easily do they?

[Stefan-A]

"soft" deletion?
The thread disappears from the view of the common folk, but can be revisited and restored by moderators, if necessary. We can do the same thing with posts, by the way.

[chris-uk]

But I want to know "then truth about abs" and the cheapest places to buy vagrant. ;)
Keep them out Stefan (and other mods).

[kueluck]

.......and I thank you also.

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah thanks. But we also know you make the big bucks doing this.:rolleyes:

[-MARWOLAETH-]

Much obliged, mods:D

[Invisible Snake]

Boy these spammers have been coming on in full force the past couple of days, maybe we should nominate a member to become a new moderator (with Boots' blessing) to help you guys out?

[gregmonsta]

Big TY from me on the modding modders ;)

[Selkielass]

Kudos to you all for your efforts.
Also, many thanks for keeping this community accessible, readable and friendly to enthusiasts of all levels.

[Stefan-A]

Boy these spammers have been coming on in full force the past couple of days, maybe we should nominate a member to become a new moderator (with Boots' blessing) to help you guys out?
I don't think it's necessary, it's well under control. As for nominating a new member, sure, as long as I get to veto the result. ;)

[-MARWOLAETH-]

Such a shame .The world will never know "The best way to lay out a wedding gown"

[Stefan-A]

Such a shame .The world will never know "The best way to lay out a wedding gown":p
I think I regret deleting "Imaginative York Conclude!" more. Almost as much as I regret deleting "bofugr belbls dvrdmm hwt".

[guidofatherof5]

I think I regret deleting "Imaginative York Conclude!" more. Almost as much as I regret deleting "bofugr belbls dvrdmm hwt".

I have no idea what any of this is but it sounds funny.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

http://koti.mbnet.fi/thamnoph/photos/garbage/generalspam2.jpghttp://koti.mbnet.fi/thamnoph/photos/garbage/generalspam1.jpg

[SilasBannook]

Thanks for the time you guys do put in.

[infernalis]

it does distract from everything else.

It has been affecting all forums lately. I know of one that shut down all registration of new accounts.

[Light of Dae]

I've seen an increase in junk in my email as well as stuff that slips past into my inbox... It's crazy... and now most of the spam has 'emotes' in the subject line... It's very annoying.

Keep up the good work mods!

[katach]

Great job keeping this forum clean and spasm free! Thank you guys so much!

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Thanks for helping to keep the forum clean!

[infernalis]

What baffles me the most is how anyone would think that advertising ugg boots or online pharmacy deals over a reptile forum is going to be effective???

[EasternGirl]

Thanks to all the mods!

[Light of Dae]

What baffles me the most is how anyone would think that advertising ugg boots or online pharmacy deals over a reptile forum is going to be effective???

As funny n true as that is I think its mostly random generated junk. Don't know if people actually sit don n place single ads here n there... I'm sure they got bots to make most of it then it pauses at the "type the characters you see in the box" and maybe just a person goes n fills those in n then its back up to a bot?

Thats my thought.

[infernalis]

As funny n true as that is I think its mostly random generated junk. Don't know if people actually sit don n place single ads here n there... I'm sure they got bots to make most of it then it pauses at the "type the characters you see in the box" and maybe just a person goes n fills those in n then its back up to a bot?

Thats my thought.

It's a software script, writing accounts faster than we can delete them.

I have seen a slew of new registration names that look like this "abcdef123" "jklmno4401"

Since the user names are generated patterns, it tells us that there is a registration script that automatically fills in the new user form, and does it in a few seconds.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

^^^^
That's messed up

[ProXimuS]

Man, that is messed up:p I mean, does this ever actually work out for them? Like do they really make money some how with all those kind of advertisements? Do people really fall for those ads?

[ProXimuS]

I just noticed the Spam-O-Matic thing at the bottom of the main forum page. Awesome:cool:

[Greg'sGarters]

Thank you Moderators! I cannot count how many times moderators have helped me out with my problems and changed things for me!

[snake man]

Thank you guys.

[ConcinusMan]

Every time I log on, there's a new spambot member. Jeez.

[ProXimuS]

Yes and on most of them they're biography says "Man." I saw one the other day that said the occupation was "Russia" lol:rolleyes:

[guidofatherof5]

It's been awhile since this thread was updated so I thought I'd give it some new life.

Thanks you Mods. for all you do.

[Stefan-A]

Thanks.

What we do isn't much, though. Setting up the contests, blocking the occasional spammer and jumping in when someone has a bug up his / her ***.

[jwolfe152]

Thanks.

What we do isn't much, though. Setting up the contests, blocking the occasional spammer and jumping in when someone has a bug up his / her ***.

it is a lot when you spend your spare time to filter stuff out to make the forum nice and tidy for real members so they don't have to filter out crap. i want to be a mod so i can get all the chicks and mad bank :rolleyes: thanks for everything guys

[guidofatherof5]

It's time again we thank those that help to make this forum such a great place. Not only our Mods. but the site owner (Boots) Jason.
Many thanks from the T. radix Ranch.

[chris-uk]

Indeed. They do a good job.

[MiddletonMouse]

Thank you moderators! :D