Hi,

There are mechanisms to reduce this sort of thing such as deferred membership which ensure posters have to wait or give good reasons for membership or confirm requests for membership via email. On this forum anyone can register without any checks so this will continue. This spammer now has 5 of the 10 visible threads and no moderators to act in time.  Remember that we're not allowed to flag them up using the 'Report'.

Terry

Edited By Terryd on 05/03/2012 09:22:09

Why on earth not? Surely that is what the Report function is there for!

And who says we are not 'allowed'

CB

David's post says it's not necessary, rather than not allowed. However, I'll agree that saying it's not allowed sounds much more exciting.

Chris

I was – still am really – a moderator on another forum and we used to get absolutely masses of spam – mainly internet drugs, 'cheap' finance (if that is not a contradiction in terms) and porn. The forum used to get so flooded with the stuff you couldn't get to the genuine threads.

We eventually stopped it by ensuring that new members registrations went to a moderator for authorisation first – if we didn't like the look of them they were binned! – and secondly we put in a question which required someone to answer. Most spam get done by bots (or whatever they are called, automated wotsits anyway) and they don't do answering questions, even simply ones.

That would help here, not that I have seen any spam here, probably don't look at the right time, but if it happens as it obviously does then action must be taken to stop it.

Chris

Just a humble opinion.

I'm just starting out in model engineering and wish my Dad was still around to ask the thousands of questions I might have about engineering in general. He worked at Rolls Royce for ~40 years on the Pegasus engine test beds amongst other things and was a mine of information. Now he's not here I really appreciate the help and advice I get from a free forum such as this one and I'm not really too bothered about the forum software used, nor feel the need to moan about it. For me it's about the value of the shared knowledge and humor and maybe I'll make a friend or two along the way. With the anonymity of forums it's all to easy to bleat out frustrations. We sometimes forget that there are real people at the other end(s).

Have a look in suggested online resources, there is a thread there by coco huai. Ian S C