What is up with all the Spam???

Since when did the Sonar forum become a public urinal??? seriously, does anybody moderate this place anymore or has Roland just written the entire thing off??

maybe this forum software needs to be updated though.. seems to be an old version and maybe getting more vulnerable to spam? 

not a big deal though

We need hall monitors appointed from the user base.

I thought this thread was in response to Mcq's bitter, pointless, childish Cake-bashing threads - I see it's about the passport people.  Sorry.
 
I'll get my coat..

John

Shambler


There's nothing up with the spam, it appears to be very high quality spam indeed.

LOL! At least is better than gym shoes. 

If it's in batter who could tell the difference?

It's a plague. There is nothing particularly worse about the spam situation on this site than on other sites. Look at the comments in Gizmodo and other Gawker blogs. That site is HUGE, and yet there's at least one "my sister makes $7843 every night on the computer" posts in every comment thread. Sometimes they last quite a while before getting deleted. 

I've learned to ignore them and they don't bother me (after all, advertising is all around us and you learn to tune it out), however I'm at a loss to understand why the "boffs" as it were can't just write algorithms to combat forum spam in the same way they combat viruses, i.e. with a constantly updated database of spam definitions. We can install ad-blocking plugins on our browsers, so why isn't there spam blocking software in forums and comment threads? 

OP:
Do your part and report it via the forum software and don't post in their threads and it will soon get moved. It seems to come in cycles.

many of us have asked for the forum (or parts of it) to be for registered Cakewalk users only but this suggestion has not been acted on. Conclusion is that it doesn't fit Cakewalk's model and that's that.

its brutal that spamming

To me spam is like littering. But littering is a thoughtless act where spam is intentional.  It takes a person with little self respect to do either. 

Marcus Curtis


  I seen people trying to sell kitchen crap in her a few weeks ago 

I have all the crap I need thank you. 

Bump to bump the spam off the first page. 

vance miller is his name..  he is known as the "kitchen gangster" in the UK. I only know him coz of his spamming here..  I will not buy anything from him or any of his companies as a result.

problem is , he is hiring a 3rd party to spam up every site that uses this cruddy forum software.. other sites I go on don't have this issue..

but other places who uses this forum s/ware do. 

it's bot's doing the spamming, and they get around the "captua" type things by using OCR to get the right code.

not sure how steiny or props stop it.. both forums don't have this issues.. and it looks unprofessional here.


this forum can't even format text right IF in the wrong browser... says a lot

Here's a little info about my own email server back 2006:

I pulled my email logs for last week. For a period of 168 hours (7 days), there were 7153 attempts to deliver email to my server. 4888 were rejected due to DNSBL (thanks www.spamhaus.org); another 1159 were bounce'd, no such user. 254 connections ended in timeouts (most were from cnet.com); 6 were rejected due to relaying. The remaining 670 email's made it to my client, where 567 found there way into the SPAM folder.

In summary, out of 7153 attempts to deliver email to my server, only 128 were for legitimate email.
 
Since the Cakewalk forums are very well known and popular, I would imagine the numbers here 10x more than what I just listed.  I've run forums in the past, it's a lot of work.  I would say it is like recording a piano, with the monitor speaker inside the piano aimed at the mic. 
 
I watched a forum get so overrun by spam it had to shut down.   It was a good forum.  I'm also a member of several closed forums.  It keeps the riff-raff out, but it's a lot of work for those that run it.
 
I was looking at purchasing a product and had to registered with a forum to check it out, I moved on.
 
With all this talk about spam, y'all made me hungry...
 
-JJ
 
 

I must say the mods are getting quick a getting rid of spam. I reported a guy who had spammed 13 times in a short period throughout the Cakewal forums. That was about an hour ago and they are all deleted now.