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injinjoe · Ex Guild-Master Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 1698

What's with all the marketing bull shit on our forums all of a sudden? I had to delete 4 topics and "users" within the last 24 hours that were just advertising crap.

narok · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:36 am Post subject:

I did 1 as well, ban there ip if they do it again
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Ashlynn · Loyal Poster Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 262

Sometimes happens Joe

In my old forum for my italian guild, i had to change all the permissions and make it private, without any section free.

When someone of this stupid guy or program or whatever is,found an active forum (like unfo or my old one was) it start to post everyday (that's why i say "program", like "auto-post" ) a spam message.

I tried to ban every single ip, trying to stop it, but it was impossible =_= so i changed all the mask permission and made a complete private forum..
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narok · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:58 pm Post subject:

I hope we dont have to go down the members only route, it will make aplications hard
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injinjoe · Ex Guild-Master Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 1698

I went through the members list and just deleted 11 more accounts that we're created over the past couple days. I did come across a couple that I felt were legit and left those alone, but the ones I deleted all had the same characteristics with their email addresses and profile settings. The majority of them also had business websites associated with the account.

HoLyVieR · Loyal Poster Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 94

You should check if you have any option to set all the link to "no-follow" in the forum. I noticed that all the link in the forum and the profile don't have this attribute. Having this, will remove all the benefit that people can gain from having spam link in here.

I have a strong feeling that those link to commercial website are there, because someone is doing Black Hat SEO to gain more Page Rank on those site.
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Dang looks like we gettin hackz

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injinjoe · Ex Guild-Master Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 1698

4 more users deleted today...

soiledmyself · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:18 am Post subject:

well thats about as annoying as a spammed email account

Vansire · Vice-Master Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 907

When i get a moment ill have a look at this but starting a new job role in work so a little bussy

narok · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:08 pm Post subject:

Try not to delete accounts for rage members please
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injinjoe · Ex Guild-Master Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 1698

Well, unless people from Rage are trying to sell cat products, casino information, or New York limo services on our website, I shouldn't delete them. Laughing

fatherjim32 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:18 pm Post subject:

What if they sellign cat products to use in a limo on the way to a casino....seems legit to me. Can't you trace the origins to a spectrum of IP's? Been a long time since I tried something like that, I am not hip to the latest technology.

injinjoe · Ex Guild-Master Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 1698