We will be enabling Akismet and Stop Forum Spam
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@guru Well 1000s of web pages actually pay for this service, so their business model is to help paying users to block spam. I would agree that there is a potential if this would be a free service to sell of data from what they collect but with paying users its much more unlikely.
The problem is we cannot keep up manual spam moderation. We get an overwhelming amount of fake users registered to our forum by automatic bots, so we have to fight back with automatic bots. Simple as that. Or we let the forum be flooded with spam, that will make it unusable.
The spammers got all advantage in the world, its easy to write a spambot, but its hard to stop it.
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We have managed by mainly manual means to keep this forum, I hope, a friendly and safe place for all ages and people to use. This is becoming harder and harder to maintain using these methods, as has been described above by both @UniSuperBox and @Flohack.
Please remember we are doing and will keep doing this in our own time because we believe it is worth doing and worthwhile. However we now need to add in additional resources to maintain that situation. A decision not taken lightly. I hope this change can be appreciated for what it is, a way to keep the forum a safe and pleasant place to use for everyone and nothing more. -
Flohack said in We will be enabling Akismet and Stop Forum Spam:
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The problem is we cannot keep up manual spam moderation. We get an overwhelming amount of fake users registered to our forum by automatic bots, so we have to fight back with automatic bots. Simple as that. Or we let the forum be flooded with spam, that will make it unusable.
...Wouldn't it be enough to request that subscribers must give a mobile number, and enter a code sent to this by SMS (like
telegramdoes)? This forum at the end is about mobile devices. -
No. Among all the administrative headaches that would cause, programmatic SMS is expensive.
Also, have you seen how much spam there is on Telegram? Not a very effective blocker.
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Doesn't seem to work:
this post should have been marked as spam automatically:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3929/where-can-i-buy-nembutal-pentobarbital-online-whatsapp-1-615-475-7285 -
@Capsia, it's also not enabled yet
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@UniSuperBox Thanks, I agree we need something to stop spam.
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I'd rather ubports team spent time, among other things, fixing bugs, than cleaning up...
Since it's a paid service, we'll have more confidence in their ethics.
So it's a decision that may, at first glance, appear unpopular, but is in fact logical and indispensable: the survival of the forum is surely at stake ! -
This will lead to the fact that real world people, like I, will change their mail addr to nonsense and delete their fullname from the profile so their real identity is not stored together with the post in some 3rd party storage for whatever use or benefit.
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@guru, if that is what you feel you need to do, you are free to do so, assuming the forum software allows it. It would be illegal for either service to use your data for any other purposes than stated in their privacy policies, but you are free to do as you wish with your data.
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@Capsia
Thank you for the flag on this.
As you know it has been taken care of but it took time because done manually.@guru you are not forced to trust the solution, but the risk/profit has been weighted.
Personaly I try to keep things separated as much as possible so I have email address connected to activities, not my entire digital life... -
No, I dont trust in this and perhaps you noted the changes in my profile due to it.
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This post is deleted! -
I assume Akismet is triggered when the post contains a lot of links. I have had that happen to one of my posts also.
What I assume happens is that the moderators of this forum are alerted, and they review the post. No action on your part is needed. -
@ell1e First post with a few off site links from a new user will do it. Should settle down.
