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Banned as requested.

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[sonu_anand]

I thought this was going to be interesting :lol:

[Trundler]

another possible spammer: SEOpostLEX3
has a pharmacy web site detailed in profile.......

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[Broccers]

Beat you to it this time. :wink:

I can't ban their IPs until they post though so if a mod deletes any posts then let me knwo the IP address.

Ta.

[Nessamot II]

Another one by Ludolph in Good/Bad dealer section.

Could we create a sticky subject with ***Please Remove***, or rename this one and make it sticky.

Nessamot

[Nessamot II]

and another one: Snowsendru same section

nessamot

[Chris H]

How come this site has just started to be hit regularly by spammers? It seems to be at least a couple a day now :roll:

[Greenbat]

More new members with porn links

Greenbat

[Trundler]

as per a previous post on this thread:
can we make this thread a sticky?
change the title etc, so we can report spammers .. ?

[Broccers]

Why is Neil M peed off with the forum ?

The spam isnt that bad, is it ?

[Trundler]

v odd - and all his posts have had their content deleted.

[Broccers]

A protest of some sort :lol:

[Greenbat]

Why is Neil M peed off with the forum ?

The spam isnt that bad, is it ?
Read the 'vid' thread and you will see why. He spat his dummy cos he felt the thread was going off track.

His loss.

Greenbat

[Broccers]

Have you a link ?

I'm on dial up at home and have been since mid Dec so might miss the odd thread / spam :)

edit - seen it.

Time of the month :lol:

[Greenbat]

Have you a link ?

I'm on dial up at home and have been since mid Dec so might miss the odd thread / spam :)

http://www.z3mcoupe.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=3613

Greenbat

[Broccers]

Thanks - that's the first strop I've seen this year :D

[coupe fan]

Woke up hungover and in a bad mood :evil: . Who can I take it out on? - SPAMMERS :D
In the memberlist, taking Luni23X as member no 1, which it was at 8am, the following are traders sites only and nothing to do with the M Coupe:
Yank drugs 3 8 13 32 33 43 68 69 72 79 81 117
Yank services 14
Yank credit cards 1
Yank perfumes 16
Yank weather 18
Yank porn 23 30 56 75 80 85 93 96 98 128 129 132 166
Yank guitars 102
Yank online casinos 60 112 113 171 172 174 185 186 297
Yank love/alchemy(?) 25
Yank chamber of commerce 28
Yank battery chargers 34
Yank business referral company 38
Yank mp3 downloads 39 49 123 271
Yank traders (sites down) 70 71 73 102 169 202 214 215
Yank book downloads 114
Yank jobs 119
Yank mobiles 122 176
Yank spyware sales 143
Yank saunas 293
Russian drugs 209 249 254 283 289
Russian dating 210 224
Russian gambling 264 265 268 275 280

That's 73 out of the most recent joined 300; I read something about not being able to remove them unless they make a post but surely there must be some way of eliminating them. Or perhaps we can provoke the russian sites to attack the yank sites and start a war :idea:
Must go as the men in the white coats have just arrived :shock:

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That's 73 out of the most recent joined 300; I read something about not being able to remove them unless they make a post but surely there must be some way of eliminating them. Or perhaps we can provoke the russian sites to attack the yank sites and start a war

LOL - I can't see how to ban these people other than entering their username onto the ban list (which still means they can post from their IP as we can't find that until they post).

When the people in white coats release you (of if anyone else has a spare hour) can you list them by username and I'll ban them one by one - the only option I can see. Long and labourious.

Edit - as of 2.30 today I'm hoping we will not get any more spammer members.

[Greenbat]

Broccers can we make the membership limited until your first post? So until you post your first message you complete the registration process and therefore cannot show your location and web address.

Greenbat

[Trundler]

Another had turned up in 'Forum Meets' & 'XS Perfomance': ZenLex

[Trundler]

Another - VioletMan in 'Forum Meets'

[Broccers]

Ta

[Broccers]

I think our spammer member problem is fixed.

Thanks for the help guys and keep your eyes out for the 300 or so that joined before we plugged the hole.

[luke]

http://www.z3mcoupe.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=3686

[Trundler]

another: c1f12b19aaa9f96f5e717f072
:roll:

[BEN]

another: c1f12b19aaa9f96f5e717f072
:roll:

saw him the other day! complete nob!

[Broccers]

Banned. Thanks guys.

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Fixed. No guests can post anywhere now.

[Trundler]

Bada6Zoka - in the For Sale/Wanted section

[Trundler]

cgpt - a new member.
(sad i know but have the flu bad and this is about all i can manage!!)

[Broccers]

Zapped. Thanks.

[steve1]

!ArmenG has just started posting??????????????

[Broccers]

Guys thanks for reporting these - from now on if your report of a spammer is deleted rest assured the username is banned and the post removed.

S

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Neil M - just for bothering to exist

I agree.

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I know it's sad, but i have just had a quick look through the members list, and to me it's obvious that some of those should not be on there, no posts and very dubious web-sites, of course, I had to have a look at them just to make sure, :wink:

Steve.

[steve1]

urchin Trax.!!!

[Broccers]

Ta - I think we need to update the software - our version is nowhere near the current release of 2.0.20

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[exdos]

2 more:

botbb and agikellodom

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Zapped and banned.

[exdos]

Another git; UrchinTraks.

[MrMicko]

phone-cards

http://www.z3mcoupe.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=4009

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[Greenbat]

wrucijguuc

Cheers
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[Greenbat]

Please remove

Cheers
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[dasherdiablo1]

Yet another nuisance....please remove.....jsjeffft

[steve1]

there must be a way to stop all this crap entering our site, like every other red blooded male i am not opposed to this entirely, but if i want this sort of material then i know where to find it, and it's not on here.
Why can't we set something up whereby any newcomer has to apply to join and post, possibly to one of the moderators, but they can view all they want.
If people are genuine then this will not be an inconvenience to them, but might just put others off.

Steve.

[Broccers]

Bloody annoying I know.

Recently to log on as a new member you have to enter a code AND cornfirm your application via email - they are still registering !!

A software update may help - need to find time to do it.

[Trundler]

maybe delete those users with very odd 'handles': such as jsjeffft, jqnyqpquya & wrucijguuc?

[Broccers]

I can't see a way of deleting users only banning - if anyone knows how please shout up.

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Done.

I'm off next week so the other mods can zap but if you leave a list of users to ban I'll sort on my return.

[imported_ascender]

I'm hoping we can get this sorted out with a forum upgrade in the next few days....

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Someone please get rid of the porn posting twats in the Good and Bad dealer section.

[Broccers]

Done, although Dick Lovett came mighty close to being deleted. :lol:

Good to see I've loads of cleaning up to do (and work so bear with me chaps).

Simon.

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[exdos]

ghromm! - scatology Yuk!

[coupe fan]

glanata, has just joined on 3rd July AND HAS MADE A POST (!) under 'Off topic'.

[Trundler]

qicwgqx
in the dealer section

[Greenbat]

Another waste of space

abaxbdyto

Cheers
Greenbat

[David1975]

Hi,

Not sure whether you have noticed but there are a couple of suspect threads in the good/bad dealer section. More Porn stuff i think judging by the title.

cheers

Dave

[Broccers]

Thanks - congrats on your new car too.

Simon.

[Greenbat]

another one

Shellx

Cheers

Greenbat

[Trundler]

Another - Arco adding replies to 3 threads ...

[Broccers]

Zapped.

[BMK]

wqvmjem - In the dealer section. :wink:

[exdos]

lifdbwqay in XS Performance

[maahny]

Zapped.

[luke]

lifdbwqay

http://www.z3mcoupe.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=4385

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Trundler]

nyagyzjle in the Dealers section + XS Performance.

[exdos]

Aaron Zapashniy in XS Performance

[maahny]

Can't we do something about this. Its really ticking me off :evil:

[Broccers]

I quite like it - I mean deleting and banning porn spam along with dealing with grumpy users makes my day complete ;)

We need new software - I'll get on to Mike.

Unfortunately the guy we have offered money to for the update is busy.

I'm open to offers of help.

Simon.

[coupe fan]

Simon,

Some time ago, after the site went AWOL, you said on the 'Lack of Topics' thread that the previous 12 months lost posts were backed up (but nothing before). Any news on that, as there was a lot of useful info during that period?

David

[Broccers]

Yes we still have the old database Mr K but lack of time has resulted in no action.

I must take responsibility for this as Mike has a new family and business to sort out. I'll try my best to get a solution soon. I'll ask a techy or two through my biz for assistance. We need to merge the old and current databses which in theory shouldnt be hard.

While a shame so much info isn't currently available I'm certain a FAQ forum could easily be filled with the same usual questions and answers. I'll set one up now and move stuff when asked or spot a thread.

Simon.

[imported_ascender]

I'm confused as to how we're still getting these considering the changes to the registration process. I'll have a look tonight to see how other boards have got round it.

[flyingsaucer]

another -

!Rapist

in the Off topic section 'car sign writing'

[coupe fan]

another, and it is apparently their second post

zxahafkse in Good or Bad Dealer

[kxl]

xhiqvlfgai in XS Perfoprmance

Also our newest member Linda

[Broccers]

No abuse reported for over a week !!!!!

Record.

Now, where is young Neil ? 8)

[BMWboy]

give the poor bloke a rest man :roll:

[Broccers]

I think you missunderstood my post - I quite like Neils postings, very entertaining. 8)

[coupe fan]

I agree, where is he :?: :?: :?:

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[coupe fan]

As they say, you don't appreciate what you've got until you lose it.

Welcome back :lol:

[Broccers]

:!: :?: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:


:D

Are you offended by the strong language Neil ? I take it you don't watch the F word.

[Trundler]

New user 'Waci' in the For Sale section ....

[coupe fan]

annika18 in General Discussion - just posted again

EDIT and in Good or Bad Dealer

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[coupe fan]

I am looking into the issue of spam members to see what can be done, if anything. It wasn't so long ago that membership went over 1,000 - it is now 1,700, the vast majority of which are spammers.

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RobertHall
no posts, but looks to be a drugs co. :roll:

[coupe fan]

Neil/Trundler,
thanks for the info on the latest spammers. I have now nearly sussed out what might be the best site mod to enable

1/ 'Registration Robots' (as somebody called them) to be ineffective in registering new members. This is by way of a registration obstacle which only a human being would be able easily to get around, and

2/ a 'Mass Delete Users' programme' which enables an Administrator authorised person to (very selectively) highlight one 'member' after another and then remove the whole highlighted lot at once. Going through the (alternative) process individually for each 'member' is impractical as it would takes hours and hours (and days).

Hopefully nearly there, then no more sex or drugs sites :( :cry:

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Coupe fan has a cure to this disease - just need to get in touch with Mike to inject the poison.

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[Trundler]

khall - more viagra ... :?

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HThompson - same ol' .....

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[Broccers]

Cheers for the reports chaps - nothing is being done with rogue new members as we are waiting for a mass fix installing that coupe fan found. Please report spam messages as they are the only items that will get deleted.

Thanks for your help.

Simon.

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[BEN]

Yet another one who needs drugs to get it up :lol:

JohnHill - more impotence crap

some people find that helpful! :wink:

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[BEN]

how did you know! :oops: :lol:

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[imported_ascender]

That's us just deleted a few hundred spam members, so from now on it should be easy for us to keep on top of it. Thanks to coupe fan for the links.

[Broccers]

Excellent Mike - David's (coupe fan) time was well spent finding a fix 8)

Thanks for sorting it.

S.

[coupe fan]

Mike,
brilliant - glad we are on top of these bastards at last.

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[imported_ascender]

Scratch that.

This seems to be a bit of a hot topic at the moment, so there's a couple of mods available which seem to work. I'll try to get one in place this weekend.

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[arfurdaly]

has posted a viagra link on the gallery pages: -

http://www.z3mcoupe.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=318

The details are :

Anonymous
140.158.50.25

Can we delete this post?

I've reported the post through to AOL, so hopefully the site will be closed down.

Cheers

[arfurdaly]

http://www.z3mcoupe.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=319


They are some rascals, aren't they...

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[arfurdaly]

The devil's are all over the place - how about giving me or other volunteers the ability to delete these posts? I'll report the swines to thier ISPs as well - getting their sites canned might just cut down some of this spam....

[Broccers]

While these bots aren't posting there's no real issues. All the forums have mods to delete if necessary.

[arfurdaly]

Sorry, Broccers, I didn't put where the problem was - the gallery. Unregistered spammers are posting 'comments' to the gallery. If we give these people an inch they'll take a mile....

This is one of about ten posted on my pics -

http://www.z3mcoupe.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=318

[Broccers]

Cripes - not noticed that, thanks for the heads up.

I can't do much in the short term as I'm officially not working (online) from Friday this week until 2007 but will pop it on the 'to do' list.

S.

[arfurdaly]

Thanks Broccers - they are a pain!

[arfurdaly]

All these spammers appear to be unregistered - could we change access to the gallery comments to registered members only?

[Broccers]

I've turned comments off - I suppose if someone wants to post a thread here they can include a link to the photo they wish to discuss.

[arfurdaly]

That'll stop the swines! Thanks very much

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[Broccers]

Neil thanks for the 24 hour watch on these critters - we'll always get spam bots joining I'm afraid, its one of those things. Just let us know when they post (not register) ta.

And by the way its well past your bedtime ;)

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[Broccers]

Night owl - I'm more of a drunken insomniac myself :)

There is a way to get rid of the dormant members, coupefan spent many an hour finding the fix. I, personally, can't sort it maybe down to lack of t'internet skilz, even tho surprisingly I actually studied computers at uni (although my c++ programming was total rubbish, hence me being in sales now).

As long as the forum is readable and not full of junk then we are ok I reckon.

Best get some zzs before the tennis at 8 :)

Tra.

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[pie-boy]

dreamath (http://www.z3mcoupe.com/forum/member.php?u=3027)

Nob alert! 3 posts so far, all spam.

[h4pry]

Spam all over the forum again! What is going on with the recruiting of more moderators?

These spamming idiots need to be banned!

[c_w]

Spam all over the forum again! What is going on with the recruiting of more moderators?

These spamming idiots need to be banned!

Yep, we could have had these posts deleted. Also "beijmanli" is spamming.

[coupe fan]

Spam all over the forum again! What is going on with the recruiting of more moderators?

These spamming idiots need to be banned!

PM the site owner ascender with these thoughts - I have given up trying to push things along:beatdeadhorse5:.
Not only are the lights not on, there's noone at home either:out:. It's pathetic.

[pdwarren]

The spam was deleted as soon as I became aware of it. Sorry it took a little longer than usual, but I actually went 24 hours without reading the forum, which is pretty rare.

Rather than posting here, or trying to paper over the problem by bumping other threads, please use the "report post" option on the top of any spam post. I think I can make it email me when this happens, so I'll find out quicker. It also gives a direct link to the spam, rather than leaving me searching for (as in this case). You only need do these once for each user (rather than once for each post) as I'll just delete the user and all their posts.

Paul

[Broccers]

I dared to go on holiday too :lol:

Nice one Paul, I'm sure everyone appreciates your efforts.

[coupe fan]

Nice one Paul, I'm sure everyone appreciates your efforts.

Seconded, but that does not address the central issue plaguing this forum.

[davieb]

Might be wrong but the second reply on my “Air-con problem” thread in "Technical discussion" appears to be spam. [“KaiyureBoy”] [And by the way, is it possible to edit the title to a thread? Called it air-com by mistake]

[pdwarren]

Seconded, but that does not address the central issue plaguing this forum.

OK, it's probably worth explaining why this is an issue and what can't be done to stop it. At around the time that we moved the site to the new server, we also changed it so that all forums are publicly visible (but not postable). Aside from making the forum more accessible to new users, who would otherwise have to sign-up for an account before they could see any posts, the main reason for doing this was to build Google page rank for the site. If you type any of the following into Google:

"Z3 Coupe"
"M Coupe"
"Z3 M Coupe"

You see that this site is the top result. This is great news if we want to attract new owners to the site, but it also attracts spammers. Spammers can build the page rank of their own sites if they can create links to it from another site with page rank. This is why it is attractive to sign-up for accounts on this forum and link to other sites.

Spammers have gone to a vast amount of effort to automate the process of spamming forum sites. The posting is almost certainly automated, and the sign-up process may well be too. Our sign-up is already about as bot-proof as we can make it as it requires both a response to an email (to prove that the user is using a legitimate email address) and reading a CAPTCHA - one of those images which contains an obscured text string that the user must enter. These are pretty hard to automate, but many of them have been broken.

There's a few things that we can do to further reduce spam. These include:

1. Moderate the first post of all new users (this can be done, but requires some effort to set up)
2. Make the CAPTCHA stronger. There are some options that I can fiddle with on the forum software.
3. Moderate the first post of all new users who sign-up with address from the well known free mail provides (hotmail, gmail, yahoo). I'm not certain if this is possible in the forum software, but it would require less moderation effort than (1).

I'm intrigued by the suggestion that spam is "plaguing" this forum. We've had 2 or 3 incidents of spam this year. I don't know about your email, but I get around 200 spam emails a day, only half of which are caught by my spam filter. The spam on this forum gets cleaned up reasonably promptly - and when it does, it is deleted without trace.

Obviously, if we implement either options 1 or 3, some more moderation effort will be needed. We already have a thread containing volunteers to be moderators. I can contact a couple of people on that thread and sign them up.

Paul

[Broccers]

Paul,

Updating the forum software to the latest version may well do the trick - if you get a spare mo can you sort it ? We may need to pay, so let me know on that front.

http://www.vbulletin.com/product_detail.php#license

[pdwarren]

1. Moderate the first post of all new users (this can be done, but requires some effort to set up)

I've now done this. Apologies to those people who tried to post since I set it up at 2am this morning - I didn't get it quite right first time.

Paul

[h4pry]

I've now done this. Apologies to those people who tried to post since I set it up at 2am this morning - I didn't get it quite right first time.

Paul


Thanks for your efforts Paul...

I like a few other posted in the volunteers to be moderators thread and have not really received a response...

There are a lot of helpful people on here willing to help out and would certainly make your life easier on deleting these spammers.