Guest Posting Re-enabled
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:56 pm
Yesterday, I got a message from a user who was not able to register for the forum because the visual confirmation message was not appearing. In order to allow guest postings and registrations, I turned off the confirmation images and hoped that the other spam prevention modifications would prevent spammers from flooding the forum with crap posts.
Wrong.
Apparently, some of the more important preventions were tied to the confirmation image and a virtual wave of nasty garbage came flowing in, over 150 trash messages in 24 hours.
Yeuch...
As a result, I have disabled guest posting until I can get things working properly again and stop the filth from arriving. Apologies to those of you who post as guest users, I'll do my best to have something in place to prevent abuse of the guest posting service on the forum so you can return to active status soon. Stay with us...
Wrong.
Apparently, some of the more important preventions were tied to the confirmation image and a virtual wave of nasty garbage came flowing in, over 150 trash messages in 24 hours.
Yeuch...
As a result, I have disabled guest posting until I can get things working properly again and stop the filth from arriving. Apologies to those of you who post as guest users, I'll do my best to have something in place to prevent abuse of the guest posting service on the forum so you can return to active status soon. Stay with us...