[Joshinator99]

Originally Posted by arpad_m

Josh, are there any post filters or automatically applied rules in this forum engine? These spam posts are so easy to identify from their metaproperties, all one needs to do is define a few filters and they'd be gone, never to return.

Well, at least until AIs can make actual posts that look like genuine contributions, but we could cross that bridge when we get there.

The version forum engine we’re using looks completely different than the Camaro6 one. I suspect this boards version is super out of date. Sorry I’m not more help.

Originally Posted by SSE 4 2SS

The difference being you are an admin… We are but lowly moderators…. Owner seems a bit eccentric and apparently doesn’t trust us to have IP ban capabilities… I’ve asked…

Problem right now is only three of us are even logging into the boards… and we spend a huge amount of time chasing these prick spammer bots…, and sensitive people that get panties in a wad over a simple warning…

If the three of us decided not to log in, the board would either crash from over saturation with spammers, or it would become unusable due to spam posts… Hell the paid adverts are bad enough….

I would love to come in and read and interact with friends, offer my limited knowledge, but with hundreds of spam posts a day, from dozens of bots…. Who has time???

Negative, my friend. I was a moderator for several years before becoming administrator and as moderator you have the same spam tools as well. So as mentioned above I really think it’s just the board software being so out of date. Which is surprising, since we have paying supporting vendors here and with the paid ads that’s usually enough money to keep the software up to date….

Thanks again to you, Mike, and Radz28 for doing your best. If you guys are ever in New England , drinks are on me (you too Arpad!).