Whats with all the Chinese Spam!!

Jim Steele

I thought this was 'fixed' when the forums were updated. Please consider introducing a Captcha so guest accounts can't be created by bots

Cheers, Jim

Speckles the Destroyer of Worlds

Atleast under the old forums, I could click on the spammer's profile and hit ignore, and wouldn't have to see all the posts. Ignore doesn't seem to do anything to filter them out from the listings anymore.

[DB-DoBetter] Dragoshan

The good news is, spammers don't bother with dying/under performing games.
So... yay.

RNGeverything

Are you not entertained?

Captain Steve

The SPAM is annoying, but perhaps equally annoying is the need for people to post about the spam. It happened all the time on the old forums. I think everyone (including DB) can agree the SPAM is annoying, but posting about it doesn't stop the spammers and after the forums are cleaned up then this thread will remain... which can be just as annoying.

(And now I have added to it.)

Peachtree Rex

Flagged as spam

[DB:DB] Deb

Speckles the Destroyer of Worlds wrote: »

Atleast under the old forums, I could click on the spammer's profile and hit ignore, and wouldn't have to see all the posts. Ignore doesn't seem to do anything to filter them out from the listings anymore.

A couple days ago, it worked for me.

Edit: Just checked. If I search for the ignored person, their post shows. If I browse to the post, their name shows, but the post doesn't. Hope that works for you.

RNGeverything

Captain Steve wrote: »

The SPAM is annoying, but perhaps equally annoying is the need for people to post about the spam. It happened all the time on the old forums. I think everyone (including DB) can agree the SPAM is annoying, but posting about it doesn't stop the spammers and after the forums are cleaned up then this thread will remain... which can be just as annoying.

(And now I have added to it.)

Agreed.

Shan

So I have made a modification that I hope will help but in addition to this, the best way to make the anti spam tool do its job is to flag those threads as spam.

I too wish it was no longer happening, believe me.

Paund Skumm

There’s nothing wrong with Chinese Spam, I think it’s better than the American version myself...

Jim Steele

Another day, another load of spam!!

[DB:DB] Deb

Worse, I think. In the old forum you could ignore, and it kept the spam under control. Here, I tried flagging as spam, and nothing happened. ... DB's site so their rules...

Borg Immortal Emperor

Support has been assimilated by unknown species. So happened to moderators. One more (the devs) and the assimilation will be complete.

Dralix

Deb. wrote: »

Worse, I think. In the old forum you could ignore, and it kept the spam under control. Here, I tried flagging as spam, and nothing happened. ... DB's site so their rules...

You still have an ignore function, and I hope you didn't think that flagging as spam would automatically delete it. That would be problematic.

Data1001

Dralix wrote: »

Deb. wrote: »

Worse, I think. In the old forum you could ignore, and it kept the spam under control. Here, I tried flagging as spam, and nothing happened. ... DB's site so their rules...

You still have an ignore function, and I hope you didn't think that flagging as spam would automatically delete it. That would be problematic.

But ignore unfortunately does nothing in these new forums when the ignored user is the one who initiated the thread. It still shows up in the Recent Discussions section, which is the main page I go to every day when visiting the forums.

I'd really like an "ignore thread" option, actually. One that would hide it from view completely. I'd surely also use this for many threads that I just wasn't interested in, for whatever reason.