Spamming Solutions

[MrWizard]

what do you mean by "pretty fucked up" and "too sick" like.... a porn with chicks being ripped in half or what are we talking about?

tubgirl involves a chick eating shit
goatse involves a man's asshole
thewillpower involves a man practicing self-fellatio

let that guide you as to what is meant by "pretty fucked up" and "too sick"

[Cap'n Peg Leg]

yeah, but why even let new comers in if they are just gonna post once or twice?

[linkkid]

Because they want to explore, and I only posted like once my first week lol

[SpRi7e]

well they usually forget about the site after they finished being all stoned so they never come back but it's just a place to chill if your stoned or wanna talk to other people stoned.

[Cap'n Peg Leg]

lol, well, you came back linkkid =P

and im not saying like we should ban them if they dont post enough in a certain time period or anything
just like have a certain forum for newcomers and thats the only place they can post for awhile

[MrWizard]

yeah, not everybody that's interested in getting into the forum is going to become a part of some big, pot-smoking, smack-talking, online dysfunctional family.

also, at 2 pages in less than a half hour, this is probably the fastest growing topic i've ever seen.

[linkkid]

I just realized you have 2.7k+ posts.. damn

Anyways back on topic, yeah true but a lot of them are probably newbies like I was when I first came here. A lot of them don't have the brains to use the search bar because just like the Purple Haze topics there is always at least one of those a month. But if my 2 cents mean anything I say put a good verification random code to which new users have to put in, and as well put in a email conformation.

[Cap'n Peg Leg]

lol, but dont we only want people who are actually gonna stay here/become part of our big pot smoking smack talking online dysfunctional family? I mean whats the point in letting people in who post twice then never log back in?

well its a subject alot of people are intrested in/want to help =P

[MrWizard]

But if my 2 cents mean anything I say put a good verification random code to which new users have to put in, and as well put in a email conformation.

Definitely up the verification, just in case there are bots being used to register accounts. But there already is email confirmation for new accounts. At least when I registered, I couldn't use the account until I clicked a link in the email they sent me.

ol, but dont we only want people who are actually gonna stay here/become part of our big pot smoking smack talking online dysfunctional family? I mean whats the point in letting people in who post twice then never log back in?

Personally, I think it's people like RastaGrrrl, gorecore, SpRi7e (just to mention 3 of many) that make the forum actually an interesting place to talk to people. after a while, you come to think of those little forum avatars as the people they represent. if you never saw the same person more than once or twice, it would kill a lot of the appeal, because you're not talking to fellow stoners, you're just talking to a block of text on a web page.

[linkkid]

Yeah I realize that now, we need a good verification because obviously there are bots that are bypassing it which wont work on the good ones like on download sites.
etc etc

[SpRi7e]

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=393503 i posted this a couple weeks ago when there was another thread of this somewhere but those are the mods that you can actually do to prevent spam cuz most of the things you guys are saying haven't been made by someone yet.

[Cap'n Peg Leg]

Personally, I think it's people like RastaGrrrl, gorecore, SpRi7e (just to mention 3 of many) that make the forum actually an interesting place to talk to people. after a while, you come to think of those little forum avatars as the people they represent. if you never saw the same person more than once or twice, it would kill a lot of the appeal, because you're not talking to fellow stoners, you're just talking to a block of text on a web page.

wait, isnt that exactly what im saying? i cant tell if your agreeing with me or what =S im confused

[MrWizard]

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=393503 i posted this a couple weeks ago when there was another thread of this somewhere but those are the mods that you can actually do to prevent spam cuz most of the things you guys are saying haven't been made by someone yet.

Cool, thanks a lot. Now we can get an idea of what's possible and what people have already done.

The invitation one http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=283054 looks particularly interesting. Just think - if you had a free sub-forum with guest posting turned on, then non-members would have somewhere on the site to talk and ask for invitations. Any member with invites could then send one to a non-member's email. Of course, you'd need to really limit the invites, and only give them to trusted members.

It's always possible that someone who was actively participating in the site would start spamming, but you can always ban them without worrying about 5 more taking his place, because invites are limited.

In other words, if you can control the rate of members coming in, you can ban bots much faster than new ones can join.

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wait, isnt that exactly what im saying? i cant tell if your agreeing with me or what =S im confused

yeah, i was agreeing with you 100%. I just re-stated what you said, insinuating that it was an argument, in order to confuse you

[Cap'n Peg Leg]

hm, i like that, and eventually when the people running the bots realize that they cant set em on our site fast enough, they will (hopefully) move on to different forums

[Cap'n Peg Leg]

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wait, isnt that exactly what im saying? i cant tell if your agreeing with me or what =S im confused

yeah, i was agreeing with you 100%. I just re-stated what you said, insinuating that it was an argument, in order to confuse you

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh well it worked XD