Pete Posted July 30, 2011 Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 Hi folks After the recent increase in spam posts from guest accounts we've had to disable guest posting in all of the news forums. I know there are a lot of friendly lurkers out there who comment on the news articles from time to time, so please feel free to sign up for an account if you'd like to make comments in future - it's quick, easy, relatively painless and we don't pass on your details to anyone else. If anyone has any queries, either PM me or if you're not a member get in touch via our contact page. Thank you Vitezsype 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted July 30, 2011 Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 Is it bots? Any chance of incorporating a new test to stop them if so? Got an ETA for the restoration of guest posting, otherwise? We have some great lurkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted July 30, 2011 Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 Humour would be our contact box suddenly flooding with (more) spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted July 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2011 The only way I'll be able to incorporate something is with a forum upgrade and some of the new ideas I've been talking about in the staff forum. For the rest of you that can't see that forum, there are plans afoot to resolve this in a upgrade in the next month or two and I'm intending to reinstate guest posting then. Don't worry - this is intended as a temporary measure for now, however the content of some of those spam posts was pretty bad and we've taken this measure so as to not subject anyone to them for any length of time if possible, plus save staff members' time in cleaning them up. More announcements will follow on future site developments soon, but for now I'm going to keep them under my hat Humour would be our contact box suddenly flooding with (more) spam. At least it's out of public view and Google's not going to add it to their searches, which is the point of most spam posts with links in them - it increases the ranking of the site the links point to in case anyone else was wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 We haven't forgotten about you, lurkers! We love you very much! Let me kiss you on both cheeks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 We haven't forgotten about you, lurkers! We love you very much! Let me kiss you on both cheeks!That is FACE cheeks. We wouldn't want to scare them off too quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 Hey, it's me that lowers the tone around here. I need this, don't jokeblock me again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted April 7, 2012 Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 Working (read: annoying Pete) on getting this reinstated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 If you can't wait though, please do feel free to create an account. We're not affiliated with anyone, we'd love see you around more and we'll only pass your details on to the highest quality back-alley organ harvesters. I jest, of course. ... About the last bit specifically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted April 7, 2012 Report Share Posted April 7, 2012 Yes, they no longer prefer to be known as 'organ harvesters' because the mental imagery is too bleak. The prefer 'organ requisitioners'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Guest posting is now enabled again on all forums for a trial period. As long as we don't get too much in the way of spam it can stay on I'm working on allowing guest posting through the forms on the main site and will update you when that's ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Lurkers, I have avenged thee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 I think that guest posting should be disabled again - seen plenty of spam recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kret Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 Yeah, noticed it myself. Has actually anybody other than bots used the guest posting since enabling it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted August 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 I've seen a small handful of spam - not exactly a torrent - but it depends on how many other staff members have been deleting stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunflash Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 Ive seen a small number during my peak hours(which is, what, you guy's downtime?), but a very small amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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