Time to do some pruning :)

[trackpads]

Check this out, members list - page 1

[Andreas]

Hmm, what's wrong with the memberlist?

[akanevsky]

Check this out, members list - page 1

Damn straight bro :banana:

Hmm, what's wrong with the memberlist?

Too many members on it? Some people might get claustrophobia, which I assume isn't in the best interest of the site :P

[trackpads]

"Incest" is the name of one user. Looks like someone was registering to get their spam names on the page 1.

[amykhar]

There's another one on there too.

[akanevsky]

"Incest" is the name of one user. Looks like someone was registering to get their spam names on the page 1.

Oh crap someone registered to get their spam names on page 1... help, I'm scared, we need to do something really quickly until they take over o.OOO... why don't you go ahead and register about 20 more names with about 5 punctuation marks in front of each to makes sure they get pushed down to the second page? others will join later and push them even further

[Paul M]

Maybe it's just the fact that all those listed have never visited in the last 18+ months and have never posted, hence they are just cluttering the list ?

[Darkwaltz4]

jeez, and vbulletin has several methods of preventing this sort of thing too!

You can require a minimum post thing, or why not just only display members who have proven their liscense status O.O if its all just a usergroup~ should be a piece of cake?

And yes, they are so obviously spam. At the very least prune off members who never posted, werent verified, and havent logged in since registering, a long time ago (time to be determined by admins). WHY let them sit there? There is no point harboring hope that they will return and actually be members. Unless it is just a way to inflate usercount or something >.> Its impossible to find normal users unless you know their name immediately. Sure vborg has tons of regular users, but a great alarming number of such fakes. My favorite idea is simply only displaying users who have proven liscense status.

[peterska2]

A nice prune unlicenced after 6 months should help. After all, if it's longer then leased licence holders could get pruned if their licence lapses, but it's more then long enough to make up your mind and purchase.

Some users with 0 posts are still licenced and subscribe to the give and take philosophy, but only take and never even give thanks. Then there the 0 posts coz they only log in to post a service request and perhaps post in the lounge every so often.

[buro9]

It is spam. Debated heavily on vb.com a while ago.

Basically they register and fill in the homepage link. If the profile pages are public or if the homepage link appears on the memberlist, then they go up the Google PageRank.

Best defense:
1) Take homepage off of your memberlist.
2) Make member profile pages members only (no guest view).

Just take a look at some of the URL's set as their home pages