Moderators?

[Jeff]

I noticed the planet forums appointed a user as moderator to help keep the forums spam free as well as several admins there. I wonder if the ResellOne forums should appoint a few moderators to delete the obvious spam posts on sight?

[sunpost]

I second that suggestion.

[Domains_Aamir]

Hello,

I do as well, however I'm not sure we can commit the resources to appoint people in that same manner. I will however, make a specific request to my superior right now with emphasis on this post as proof that customers are asking for this service.

Thanks,

Aamir A.
Reseller Services

[yurtesen]

I think this forum software should also be upgraded and use better registration protections to stop spammers from registering at first place.

[sunpost]

I think this forum software should also be upgraded and use better registration protections to stop spammers from registering at first place.You mean there really isn't 18,164 human members on this forum :p

[Jeff]

Agreed. A combination of a captcha image (just requires checking a box to enable it in the vbulletin admincp) and an anti-spam question can reduce the spammer signup by 90% as they move on to easier targets; right now with neither, this forum is an easy target.

I thought maybe the captcha and/or anti-spam question were a problem in terms of accessibility for disabled persons or something of that nature keeping them from doing it, but forums.theplanet.com does have a captcha image enabled so I don't think it's that as I would assume the same legal considerations would apply to both.

[yurtesen]

Disabled people if they have a company, can find somebody to help up with signup I think. It is a one time process anyway. :)

[Jeff]

In addition to the captcha, I've found this http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=124828 to be very effective if the questions can be industry-specific and not obvious to the spammers. Maybe the domain registration and secure cert business would be too well known and "google-able" by spammers though for this to be effective. Or maybe it would also help them move to easier targets elsewhere.

Also this is handy http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=156444 to delete all of a spammer's threads and ban the spammer at one time without having to separately login to the admin CP to ban the spammers.

[yurtesen]

Something should be done about this ASAP, I come to this forum and find 11 new posts but only 1 is real... :(