Attention all...

White Fox · Post by **White Fox** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:35 pm

Folks, we have been having some trouble with some spammers lately. Some include viruses and some do not.

If you see a post from a new member telling you to go to a great XXX site please do not open those. They will usually (though not always) have some sort of text that is very obviously XXX in content.

We get rid of them as soon as possible. Usually in a half hour or less. However, we cannot get rid of them instantly and some of these viruses that they include could possibly cause you damage.

Again, we will always get rid of these as quickly as we possibly can. And it is generally very,very easy to recognize the messages instantly due to the XXX type content that they pretend to link to.

Thanks all.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Our staff does the best they can and mostly these are gone within a half hour as mentioned. But we cannot get to them immediately.

White Fox
Den Admin

Silky · Post by **Silky** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:52 pm

Is there anyway of delaying new posters, like giving us posing permission, so we can post imeadiatly, but new posters have to be vetted first?

Just a thought?

Silky

Joe Al · Post by **Joe Al** » Sat May 19, 2007 2:49 pm

Hi White,

many thanks for the warning!

Folks, please have an open eye before you click a link posted by somebody you do not know!

@Silky, afaik, there is no possibility to implement that function.

Woolly greetings,
Joe Al

White Fox · Post by **White Fox** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:17 pm

Silky, the only way to do that is to do it via a user group. We do actually have a couple of forums here that we can use on an emergency basis where we can talk to individual members, etc. We used that capability a lot during construction of the site, but we have not used it much since. They are both empty now.

However...
Problem is that to make all of you members and keep up with everything it would be an administration nightmare. And... if we did not know if a member was a troll before their first post it still would not help.

So unfortunately we are pretty much stuck with what we have until the Net in general and PhP come up with more updates in their programs to fight it.

That is the bad news. The good is that usually it is easy to spot these guys quickly. Often we spot them before they even have time to post. The names they pick are always so obvious it is rather hilarious really. Generally they only keep trying for awhile until they find out that their messages are gone here faster than they post them, so they give up quickly.

W