ways to stop the spammers

I’m a newbie and I’d agree to it. Seems like we’re getting a rash of them in the last week or so.

-- Dave; Lansing, Kansas

Martin seems to do a pretty good job of taking care of things… When we see them we should just ignor them and PM Martin. ...just a thought

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

It’s annoying to message martin every time this happens, only to never have him reply back. The spammers are getting worse if you ask me.

-- Julian, Park Forest, IL

Just about all the blogs right now are filled with spam! This is getting crazy!

-- Ellen on Cape Cod

I think recently the internet as a whole has received tons of spammers… I run a message board and we’ve been getting a ton of accounts registering out of Russia trying to peddle diet pills and the like. I have created some unique ways of preventing them from registering, and it has cut down from 20 a day to probably around 3 a week.

-- San Diego, CA US Navy

I noticed also that since the kids are on summer break, that the bogus posts on craigslist have jumped through the roof.

-- Julian, Park Forest, IL

I pm’d Martin about one and he responded.

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

Julian.. actually that probational period is a good idea. I’m thinking about this issue each day. We will resolve it…

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

Here we go again…this time it is both blogs AND videos!

-- Ellen on Cape Cod

sisorama is the newest violator!
What gets me is that these new spammers get so many greetings on their homepage. PEOPLE WAKE UP!!!

-- Julian, Park Forest, IL

Unfortunately, for the fine folks like Martin, spammers greatly outnumber the good guys and they have a single focus. I’m impressed with how little spam actually gets here considering how much is floating around the web. It’s a nuisance, but so is rain at a picnic. If you pay attention it won’t do you much harm.

As for probation, it’s an interesting idea. However, someone is going to have to monitor those on probation and that could take a fair amount of time. Unfortunately, it’s not a simple task.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Well in most forums I peruse, there are plenty of moderators that watch out for things like this. I don’t see spam like this in any of the other forums i’m involved in.

-- Julian, Park Forest, IL

Martin does a great job of keeping up with all the issues on LJs

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

And how is Martin going to filter out dedicated spammers like me who spend a year learning woodworking and posting projects just so I could infiltrate your site. MMMWUUAAHHH haaa haaaaaaaaaaa! Ok I’m just kidding don’t delete my account!

-- Wipe the blood stains from your blade before coming in.

You forgot to add lol at the end of your post. DELETE HIM!!!!

Seriously though, the spammers with their hyperlink loaded posts need to go.

-- Julian, Park Forest, IL

maybe require people to enter a code? you know, the blurry ones to prevent bots from posting. I’m just putting the idea out there, although I don’t like it. I think it would reduce contributions by people. maybe you need to enter a code teh first 50 times and then after that, you are good to go with your account. That would help us frequent posters.

lets not start that frequent poster discussion again…!!

-- Ellen on Cape Cod

Yeah, some sort of Captcha before posting would make sense. The number of spam posts in the RSS feed is pretty crazy.

Well i think its the fact that LJ’s has got so big that the spammers now have a big enough audience to try and screw up i like the proposal by julian and i’m sure any genuien woodworker wont mind being on probation….. !!!!!!

-- cut it saw it scrap it

Julian may have the right idea but Martin knows a lot more about computers etc than i and certainly will find a solution.

-- RTB. "dumb animals are not stupid they simply can't talk "

These latest posts doesn’t seem to be posted by bots. I’m going to add email verification during registration process as a first step. Thanks for good discussion ;)

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka