Spam

[inactive_jumpenjuhosaphat]

I've been noticing a huge increase in spam in webmaster forums. I noticed quite a few in the purged forum here, and I've banned 15 or 20 members over that past few days at iwebtool...I wonder why it comes in surges like that....

Something strange, I haven't gotten(is that a real word?) any spam on my lost forum in 3 months...I guess it pays better to spam webmasters..

[temi]

Jump,
This is my expereince at my second webmaster forum as well, its terrible I think they target all forums webmater or now. UK Forums Link Exchange SEO Web Promotion & Webmaster Resources used to be a dedicated link exchnage forum, I took it offline because I was feedup with spammers (it was a phpBB forum fighting spam there was more difficult and time consuming

[gio]

i think they use an automated software to auto post to forums. I have tried a software before call forumposter which mostly targets phpbb forums. i cant remember where i saved it.

[temi]

I see, so this forum actually registers for you and post whatever you programm it to post?

[dhscott]

Originally Posted by gio

i think they use an automated software to auto post to forums. I have tried a software before call forumposter which mostly targets phpbb forums. i cant remember where i saved it.

Its not hard with PHPBB, the script needs a re-write to be honest.

But with vBulletin, I doubt these spammers use automated programs. I think they sign-up and simply spam the forum. Simply because they're aren't that many links over a long period of time. They come in nice tidy clumps. Which, let's face it, is better compared to a small dribble in my opinion.

[inactive_jumpenjuhosaphat]

Originally Posted by temi

Jump,
This is my expereince at my second webmaster forum as well, its terrible I think they target all forums webmater or now. UK Forums Link Exchange SEO Web Promotion & Webmaster Resources used to be a dedicated link exchnage forum, I took it offline because I was feedup with spammers (it was a phpBB forum fighting spam there was more difficult and time consuming

I get a lot of spam on my directory too, how is Habaa? I would assume with a high profile site like that, you probably get a lot of spam there too.

[temi]

Absolutely Jump, I get an awful lot of spam in the hundreds at Haabaa. I am developing a new script that will power haabaa, spam filter is one of the areas I gave the most focus to in haabaa V2.

Yeah, at triphp since going to vb weve had a massive influx of spam.
Ive decided to spend out on software to stop the automated spam.

[temi]

I see, you mean you had less spam when you were on SMF ?

Oh yes...no question..i beleive there is a database somewhere with vb sites to spam!