New Draconian Policy for Board

[Curufea]

Doul, Pale, let me know if this is too overboard - I just got sick of the spam happening here.

These are the measures I'll be enforcing on the boards (unless people complain)-

1) All boards are now only writeable by members, not guests. Guests can still read all boards.
I've noticed that the majority of spam was coming from what are essentially "automatic posters" - programs that don't even register when the post their spam.

2) All spam messages will be deleted.

3) All registered members that spam will be deleted. Their IP addresses will be banned.
There have only been two or three accounts created on this board for the sole purpose of spamming.

4) All spam links will be filtered with the word "spam" replacing the domain names.
The purpose of this is to stop repeat-spamming. If they create a new account, but still paste a link to whatever site they are promoting - the link will always be incorrect and have no hope of reaching the correct address. With the realisation that all new efforts to spam won't actually ever achieve results, they may wise up..

Send me any messages if you want to talk about this, too.

[endsoftheworld]

As a member, I think this is a fine solution. The spam really is out of control.

Thanks mods!

[Curufea]

I'm only a bit dubious about the member-posting only. We did have some good contributions from guests as well - and I hope they take the time to become members now.