How about flood control on the forum?

[cparka23]

Since R2R seems to be a frequent target for forum spam, it seems like a cap on the number of posts/few minutes would be something worth consideration. It might give less incentive for spammers to try multiple posts if they find that they need to wait for a set duration before posting again.

I can also see this stopping the occasional Joe who wants to get to 25 posts in half an hour in order to advertise something in the buy/sell forum (I'm aware of the 30-day wait for the new forum registrants, but said-Joe sometimes isn't).

Obviously, the trick would be to balance legit, quick responses and intentional spam so people don't have conversations interrupted. What do you think?

 

[Spiderwoman]

If you have Captcha in place and forcing JavaScript controls to be on, that should block spammers if they are bot based. Humans are another thing.

Putting a post timer in place can be really annoying sometimes when you are trying to reply to multiple messages and in some cases ones that could be time sensitive.

 

[cloakerpoked]

Yeah, but then again a 30 second or one minute time limit wouldn't be that much of an inconvenience.

 

[bannshy]

I agree with spiderwoman on this one. I really think that R2R has great moderators that have handled all the spam efficently.

 

[FiReBReTHa]

I have yet to see Any spam.

 

[Gimili the Great]

i have seen a few posts but they are almost always taken down very shortly after they are posted.

great job to the moderators for being so active

 

[Hypertek99]

I have yet to see Any spam.

Cuz we're spam snipers! I took down like 4 today.

 

[FiReBReTHa]

sad.

I have so many funny anti spam fotos, and dont get to use any

 

[Hypertek99]

Putting a post timer in place can be really annoying sometimes when you are trying to reply to multiple messages and in some cases ones that could be time sensitive.

Yeah i don't like the sites that have the post timers. Very annoying for me.

 

[ddr_phish]

I think the Mods are doing a great job against spam here already. Spiderwoman is right about the time sensitive posting, it's annoying as hell and you might miss out on a nice deal in some cases.

 

[RUGDOG]

yeah some knothead threw up a thread early today about Obama and Clinton that was full of jiberish. I responded with a ????? and a very short time later it was gone!

 

[Hypertek99]

I noticed the spam has died down a lot too.

 

[MikeB]

Make me a MOD, I live on R2R. No spammers will get by me!