spam is coming again

BeenASon

Farmer
And then there was that one a week ago that sent everyone the same message. All we can do is report them, there really isn't a way to completely stop them, sadly.
I mean yeah there's no real way to stop them. All the mods can do is remove them and all we can do is report them. No way to stop them from the root. Because if the mods set up like a manual authentication system for each post the forum is gonna turn into a wasteland. It's obnoxious but there is nothing we can do to quote Napoleon.
 

Lew Zealand

Helper
I mean yeah there's no real way to stop them. All the mods can do is remove them and all we can do is report them. No way to stop them from the root. Because if the mods set up like a manual authentication system for each post the forum is gonna turn into a wasteland. It's obnoxious but there is nothing we can do to quote Napoleon.
It seemed something like that was active around a year ago and there were like 2 new forum members joining a week because something seemed to be up with the initial account confirmation step. People on the SDV subreddit were complaining they couldn't register here and it was obvious that we were getting a tiny fraction of the usual rate of new members. It did keep the spam out of course but it looks like that system didn't quite work as intended.
 

BeenASon

Farmer
It seemed something like that was active around a year ago and there were like 2 new forum members joining a week because something seemed to be up with the initial account confirmation step. People on the SDV subreddit were complaining they couldn't register here and it was obvious that we were getting a tiny fraction of the usual rate of new members. It did keep the spam out of course but it looks like that system didn't quite work as intended.
Those kinda systems don't work as intended most of the time. I personally would not bother posting as much as I do if I had to wait for my submission to be viewed by a mod. The spam isn't worth losing new members and activity. I mean there's the mods and helpers like you to keep the spam out.
 
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