Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:58 am
jcgorla wrote:I guess I picked a bad time to be the new guy on the block, make my first post and include a link. After hearing about the problems you've had recently I don't blame you for being extra cautious. Seriously, there are features of vBulletin that can make it difficult for spammers, I was a little surprised that I had no restrictions on posting a link.
I believe admin has stopped short of not allowing new members posting/linking ability. Not sure if that could be easily implemented or not.
In the mean time we are acting as enforcers ourselves. At a minimum we post a 'warning' to others. When we see a warning, we simply enable the 'ignore' function for that member so that we never see any more of their spam. The first one to 'suspect a spammer' also notifies admin by PM.
I believe admin monitors PMs from home as well and can take action from there if he deems it appropriate.
You ,may notice some strange signature lines. That is the result of disabling some formatting functions due to spammers using them.