Profile Trouble
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:39 am
I was trying to edit my profile and it keeps saying something about a domain name.Ive been using the same adress for years and now it says this.
A few free email providers were banned as I was getting a lot of spammers using them; over 20 bogus registrations per day. Yahoo.com was one of them but is should only affect new users not existing ones. I have now unbanned yahoo.com so you can update your profile.
The spammers don't manage to post most of the time as they use automated spamming programs which move on to another forum when they can't post straight away. User and email address verification is required before anyone can post on this forum and spambots usually don't find a way around this. It's just a pain to manually delete them from the pending members admin page as some registrations are genuine. I have to check each IP and user addy against known spammer databases before I determine the user is a spammer or not.
If you go to the members page and click on member since to put newest members first, you will see how many are banned - these are spammers that make it through the filtering and manage to be able to post. Most however just register and put links to their spam web sites in their profile to boost google rankings. I have had links to child porn sites posted so I <i>have</i> to check / delete them.