Spammers!

[Rick]

If you encounter a spammer posting messages on the board (and usually this will only be in the Introductions board) then please:

• Use the "Report to moderator" link (which you'll find at the bottom right of every post) once (and only once for any particular user).
  
  
• Please do NOT reply to ANY of the spammer's messages. No exceptions. Any reply you make makes the cleaning up harder.
  
  

Thanks.

P.S. The Introductions board was invisible briefly, while I cleaned out the spewage...

[Tony G]

What happened????????????????????????

Tony G

[Rick]

An individual registered an account at about 4am(-ish) and set about posting a bazillion messages advertising all manner of fish and pork products with links and images to a variety of dodgy and unsavoury sites...

[Mac]

didnt see the fish or pork one's, just the Viagra and the usual enlargement ones.
Mind it was a bit obvious with 10 pages.

[Mac]

maybe it is time to change the new member bit so that you have to wait until your accepted before you can post.

[mickw]

How about just limiting the posts - It would become pretty obvious it was spam after the second post, or the 133rd

[Rick]

We've upped the bar on getting registered a bit, for the moment. I'll look into posting frequency filtering, but the board's post groups are geared the wrong way for limiting spammers...

[Rick]

didnt see the fish or pork one's, just the Viagra and the usual enlargement ones.

Elliptical euphamisms, Mac.

Carp is a fish and a common mis-spelling. Pork goes at least two ways, one of which is into spam, and another of which apparently sometimes requires enlargement...

[Rocket Pooch]

An individual registered an account at about 4am(-ish) and set about posting a bazillion messages advertising all manner of fish and pork products with links and images to a variety of dodgy and unsavoury sites...

He did sweeties as well?

I hate these people.