Spam

**jholton** · 09-10-2009, 07:06 AM

Holy cow! The "What's New" section is almost useless because people keep sending that crap! UGH!

**liamw** · 09-10-2009, 09:49 AM

agreed, that is the main section I use to find interesting topics to read, well I used to but now its mainly full of spam threads, which to fair on the whole have been deleted, but the threads still show up in the whats new section.

I have never seen such a spam ridden forum, I know people are working very hard to delete the spam as it arrives but can't you implement a captcha system for posting new threads to prevent this?

**deserttopping** · 09-10-2009, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by jholton

Holy cow! The "What's New" section is almost useless because people keep sending that crap! UGH!

do you mean "new posts"?

**JaceMan** · 09-10-2009, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by deserttopping

do you mean "new posts"?

You do... but they actually mean the "section" (of the screen) that is labeled "What's New"

Which is just the newest of the "new posts"

**ggrant3876** · 09-10-2009, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by jholton

Holy cow! The "What's New" section is almost useless because people keep sending that crap! UGH!

What section exactly are you talking about. I don't have anything that says "What's New."

**deserttopping** · 09-10-2009, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by JaceMan

You do... but they actually mean the "section" (of the screen) that is labeled "What's New"

Which is just the newest of the "new posts"

hey, man.

i see that now, but i see no spam there.

**JaceMan** · 09-10-2009, 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by ggrant3876

What section exactly are you talking about. I don't have anything that says "What's New."

Yes, you do.

It's the first thing you see when you hit the boards.

**JaceMan** · 09-10-2009, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by deserttopping

hey, man.

i see that now, but i see no spam there.

You dont' see the spam, because you mods or the system removed it. When a spammy post hits the board, it displays there. It continues to be shown after the thread/post is removed (temporarily). For about 10 to 15 minutes (I don't know how long the process is set to run), clicking the link will take you to a page notifying you that you have "clicked a non valid thread that may have been moved or deleted..."

Eventually, the process to clean and remove runs, and then the titles are removed from the "What's New" section too.

**deserttopping** · 09-10-2009, 01:23 PM

Oh, ok. That's weird because over 90% of spam is invisible to normal users. Seems like there's hardly any spam that isn't pre-filtered nowadays.

***susan*** · 09-10-2009, 02:10 PM

I agree, most of it is filtered now. I wonder, if for someone reason, that section isn't filtering it out. Let's keep an eye on it, DT, and see if there is some sort of glitch there that we need to fix. When I sign on in the mornings, there is usually quite a bit in the filter I have to delete. I will make sure to check tomorrow morning and see if it shows up there or not.