The recent flood of porn spam

[Dean C]

I know we can't expect your staff to be around 24/7 but there's been a post in the lounge with pornography in for 5hours now. Some of us browse this site from work and public computers during the day, and we can get in a lot of trouble if this kinds of content/language pops up on our screen.

What is the administration going to do to address this ongoing issue?

it's actually the second or third porn post in the last hours...

the guys do not want to add more products to the installation, your only guess would be to report these posts...

(or stop clicking the links where you see pussy, ++++, ++++ etc in the title!)

EDIT: add pussy in the swear filter please.. lol

[Dean C]

Well reporting isn't working is it. Something else needs to be done. At the end of the day vBulletin customers, some minors, are being exposed to this content. I find that unacceptable, and actions need to be taken to prevent it.

[Paul M]

You answered your own points, the site is not monitored 24/7, spam will be dealt with as and when it is reported (or spotted) by any available staff. Just like it always has.

[King Kovifor]

I actually preemptively banned several spammers last night when I signed on.

[Dean C]

There are things you can do: scraping of posts for content, using the forum spammers db. There's plenty of things out there to help with this. Seems to me like you're not even interested in looking into them.

i feel someone is grunting loudely in his living room...

[Shelley_c]

There are kids on this forum exposed to this material and staff have always stated they rely on members reporting spam which you don't feel too bothered about when there are script preventions you could implement. There's not a lot that really bothers me but when it comes to children and pornography being exposed to them as a human you do anything to prevent this and for you to dismiss this amazes me when intelligent people advise you what preventions to take even though you know yourself that they need to be taken

I even suggested cutting the report times for each post from 60 seconds to 30 seconds and whether you like it or not you know yourself this is a beneficial move to take.

Maybe we can't expect you to do anything, but jelsoft themselves will have to step up to the plate by either implementing the morale preventions and/or upgrade this forum to the latest software which has additional sercurity.

Nexy also suggested stopping unlicensed members posting in the general area? To me, this is a good precaution. it's going to cut down on the spam and it's going to give you more time to deal with other issues or spend your time eleswhere. What is the harm in working with these suggestions? Your doing your part in eliminating these dirt vulgar spammers that are posting these images on the forum.

I'm not having a go at you paul, I'm asking on this one occasion you listen to the members and do something about this. This isn't your average "we want this" this is to cut down on the spam pornography here which we can both agree on has no place here.

[Paul M]

What amazes me is the never ending ability of the same few members to keep having a go because we dont bow to their every wish.

Spammers come and go.

We are not going to start making wholesale changes to the site just because we got four spam threads for porn, three of which were dealt with well inside an hour. If it becomes a proper issue, then we will look at things. ATM, the current system for dealing with spam posts is fine.

wholesale changes... cool, some new expression to quote in the future..