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- meffid0
NEW SIGN UP PROCESS FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK.
- ********0
OK, so they get a new signup process, one that requires authentication... So what? Anyone with an email address can authenticate through the signup process. What? an extra step before spam? Big deal.
Even Facebook, twitter, OpenAuth won't help because they're sharing the content they want. you can only censor it once it happens, just like we experience now. making a new twitter to signup with not hard, making a new Facebook, not hard, only the OpenAuth would work because they would eventually run out of people... and that's only because I don't know exactly how it works.
You think that allowing members to flag spam won't get abused? how many users or comments that are publicly acceptable just not qbn acceptable would be prone to this deletion? It wouldn't take long for the mobs to form as well as members with multiple accounts and the "voting down" of members would commence.
All you do is create a new problem, one you're more happy with because it serves your personal interests not the sites.
I say leave it like it is, allow the tattle tales to do their thing and be happy with your current mod, it's a shit job, the users are unappreciative. I'd say they are in general though, so much expectation of the site, with so little given to it.
- Continuity0
'Anyone with an email address can authenticate through the signup process.'
True, _however_ in all likelihood, the spam QBN gets is bot-generated, and there are many ways of preventing this from happening, including (but not limited to) Captcha code input, which requires human interaction.
Even a simple Captcha or inputting the answer to even the most basic of maths formulae at sign-up would go a long way to preventing spam, IMO.
- registration currently employs the use of a captcha. i'd be more prone to listen if you were better informed********
- Well, there wasn't Captcha when I signed up, so I couldn't know, could?Continuity
- I'd take your correction more seriously, if you didn't sound like such a complete cunt in pointing it out.Continuity
- you could have... by logging out and checking, just like i did********
- registration currently employs the use of a captcha. i'd be more prone to listen if you were better informed
- ********0
to post with a qbn account you must first receive the email from qbn and activate your account via clicking the link sent to you to the specified email address at signup.
it is not possible to post to qbn without first email authenticating your account
- cool bot that checks its email, activates its account, and chooses random threads to post in********
- cool bot that checks its email, activates its account, and chooses random threads to post in
- utopian0
Spamming the PC
http://www.qbn.com/pipijuice/
- utopian0
THE RETARDS HAVE AWOKEN!
http://www.qbn.com/topics/661809…
- ********0
I nominate utopian for most vigilant anti-spam watch dog in QBN
- hans_glib0
welcome to the new week of spam
http://www.qbn.com/nolewanacura
http://www.qbn.com/topics/661817…
http://www.qbn.com/topics/661815…
- ********0
QBN should start deleting individual posts as well as threads. The spam is polluting tonnes of regular, quality threads.
- this is a MUST! dealing w/ spammers every night is one thing but when they ruin everything else...prophetone
- the qbn experience is ruined.prophetone
- ********0
Dodecahedron
Post the particular post if you see a spam post.
- but will anything be done?********
- well if you look in this thread all spam links have been deleted, so I guess it would...********
- but will anything be done?