Spammers - request to admin

[mattylad]

DIYNOT, why dont you make it so that new members have to make 10 posts before they can post links?

This is commonplace on other forums to prevent spammers.

Or do you want another kitchen?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Some sites don't allow people to post URLs until their post count reaches a certain number.

Might be worth thinking about.

I wonder why the site doesn't block new members, with less than a certain number of posts, from posting URLs?

And there's this whole topic:

http://www.diynot.com/forums/forum-information/so-much-spam.331373/


For some unfathomable reason this site doesn't want to do anything to even try and stop spam.

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[DIYnot]

We're always on the lookout for spam. Actually we stop literally hundreds of posts on a daily basis through various automated preventive measure. Of those posts that do get through are scanned and some flagged for review. There is clearly room for improvement despite of the current measures. Unfortunately preventing links for new posters is not something we can implement in a straight forward manner at this time. I will have some news in the next few weeks that will hopefully improve things on the spam front.