BOC, i understand now why you messaged me and banned me for a while, just like to apologise as I took your message in the wrong way and replied flippantly but it was all something new to me. I will also now try to help by reporting these things and being more careful. Thanks for your hard work and time consuming efforts.
Why you have just been infracted
congratulations.
You thanked the spammer. Despite my constant requests, pleas and beratements you gave acknowledgement of the same spammer's efforts to disrupt this forum and in all likelihood infect users' machines with spyware, malware and other nasties. What is worse, you did so just a few posts following a direct warning that INCLUDED THE IMAGES BEING USED and a request to ignore the spammers posts.
I'm sick of fighting this battle on two fronts and being undermined by idiots from our membership.
Since you have just one the BOC Award for Rocket Scientist of the Day I have great pleasure in presenting you with your prize.
An infraction.
Keep going and you'll follow the spammers you thank out of the door.
BOC
In Reply to your post #948751
I've only recently realised how bad the spam you deal with is. Fucking crazy.
I've been reporting as many as I see. A number of forum hosts (even free ones) have features that disallow new members to post links for set time period or until they've reached a certain post count. Others also disallow members to join with the nonsense names like spammers usually do. blueoystercult already the people running this place don't have the coding facility but I'm sure those mods will be available on some source forum out there and it should be as easy as installing them to the forum directory.
Saying that, I'm sure it'd only take spammers a day or 2 to get around it and continue doing their thing.
I thought it would have been fast and simple but I don't run the forum or know the system it uses. Shame it isn't an option as it would have made life much easier for you, keep up the good work you're doing anyway.