Fight spamming

Excellent guidelines shared. From past one month or so, number of spam posts have significantly increased. You can now easily see at least one spam post deleted in every topic in forums. Need to get strict guidelines led so that Boddunan stays spam free.

I too accept to Gulshan and i like the views and let us see what the moderators are to up to say for the views

Gulshan, very valid and vital suggestions shared. Let us wait for the moderators views.

deleted -spam post

My suggestion is that first five posts of a new member should be published only after moderation.Then only we have a control on spam posts.

Today, some spam posts have been inserted in current GD. These are first posts. The activities of fresh members need be closely watched. The existing members should also be careful in introducing new members.

I think they are deliberately spam posting. They should be given warning by the concerned person through sending private mail. This is diluting the quality of this site.It should not be taken lightly.

I think the spammers target threads which are very old. :( :(

nagalakshmi.karunanidhi wrote:
[quote]I think the spammers target threads which are very old. :( :([/quote]

Even this thread on spamming is targeted by the spammers. It is also worth mention that the spammed posts are maiden posts. This proves the necessity of prior scrutiny of first few posts of the new members.

Pradeep Kumar Nanda wrote:
[quote]I think they are deliberately spam posting. They should be given warning by the concerned person through sending private mail. This is diluting the quality of this site.It should not be taken lightly.[/quote]

They will never use the same email address after they post spam.

I mean to say that sending private mail(PM) to the user ID which they have with Boddunan. First send warning, then bar them for a week or so and then ban them permanently. And if they are coming through refferal scheme then give a notice to that member who has referred these new members.
This kind of increasing traffic will have adverse effect in long run for Boddunan.Some new categories of members will start entering into Boddunan just to destroy the quality of website.
I am not a technical person and I even don't know the technicalities of spamming. but I think they are doing this spamming after registering with Boddunan.

We are having good moderators and some senior members who are highly active on forums. They should closely monitor spamming and if they feel then they should delete that post immediately. Earlier in some threads I have seen that few spam posts were deleted stating the reasons for deleting. This process should continue.Even, those members(including me) who are writing anything wrong post should be reminded of in the next post by any other members, so that he/she can rectify it.
If, spamming is not taken seriously, then in the long run Boddunan will lose it's identity.

[quote]I mean to say that sending private mail(PM) to the user ID which they have with Boddunan. First send warning, then bar them for a week or so and then ban them permanently. And if they are coming through refferal scheme then give a notice to that member who has referred these new members.
This kind of increasing traffic will have adverse effect in long run for Boddunan.Some new categories of members will start entering into Boddunan just to destroy the quality of website.
I am not a technical person and I even don't know the technicalities of spamming. but I think they are doing this spamming after registering with Boddunan. [/quote]

Pradeep, its a good idea but it will not work with the kind of spammers who post information regarding sex drugs, dating, porno sites etc. because all they want to do is post links to such type of sites everywhere they can in the hopes that someone is bound top click on that link. They do not join boddunan because they want to become member here, all they are doing is selling their stuff! Also like Maverick said they do not use same email ID again. All we can do is keep deleting their posts and accounts.

We are working hard to fight against spamming. Deleting the posts as soon as possible. However if they post in non-peak hours where our editors/moderators not available, it may take some time to delete. PM to spammers would be waste of time. Spammers would not login for second time (and they are deleted from boddunan time to time). They use multiple accounts.

Anyway, I support reward for reporting spamming on forums. Would like to see more inputs on this.

That means it's a sole duty of moderators and active members to keep a strong Virgil on forums and going on deleting such posts as this is the only way left to stop spamming or reduce the numbers of spam post.
Yes, a reward given for reporting such spamming is really a good idea.

Obviously spammers have launched a sustained attack and I would suggest some pre-registration verification to fight off this menace.Over the last couple of months I observe an abnormal rise in membership!

[quote]That means it's a sole duty of moderators and active members to keep a strong Virgil on forums and going on deleting such posts as this is the only way left to stop spamming or reduce the numbers of spam post.
Yes, a reward given for reporting such spamming is really a good idea.[/quote]

Yes, Pradeep keeping up a constant vigil is the only way to deal with this problem!

Rewarding the reporters of such spams is a good idea!

i totally agree with the suggestion given by gulshan sir, hope its implemented

We are going to introduce improved registration process and are believing the spam would stop.

Yes, a strict process for registration can be followed and the activities of the newly registered members should be watched for some time.