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[Mimitchi]

Since most of the new signups are spammers or advertisers I have changed registration to approval only. Aka new users have to wait to be approved by me!

If you want on this forum, I highly advise using a tama related nickname to get in. Spammers use a very obvious naming convention with all of their registrations, if you do anything like "joejohnperson01" or "annbellsmith" in all small letters and use a spamming company name for your email such as "@selling-stuff-online-whatever.com" chances are you won't get approved at all. That is the spammers way of naming and I'll just eject those people automatically.

For others, I can look up IP addresses now, websites out there list off commonly known IP addresses of spammers and bad companies.

I'm done with the spam, this is the only way for me to really combat it head on without it getting to the forum. These people care not that they are posting on a forum like this and the subjects they post are filthy and I don't care to see any of that here. So hopefully this will win for all of us.

The forum might be mostly dead but I don't want it to be a place for garbage and spam.. ugh.

[TigerLily013]

Here here!

Sorry to see the low traffic, but the spam fight has just been tipped in the forum's favour! A lot of forums now (the medium to smaller ones) are low traffic right now from what I've seen and experiencing similar issues.

One forum I went on they had a question for new registering names to ask them if they liked cake or pie as their favourite food LOL! Bots obviously can't answer either or so they usually got stopped by that question (offtopic but IMHO it depends on the cake and pie for me to go either way haha).

Anyway glad to see the spammers got a smack to the face!

[Mimitchi]

Hey that's a pretty neat idea, I get it's just some plugin or something

And me tooo... depends on the kind. ^.^

There's been a ton of ugh signups so far.. glad to see there's no more junk though

I hope you are doing well ^.^