(09-09-2021, 01:52 PM)Martin306 Wrote:(06-09-2021, 09:18 PM)Mighty306 Wrote: I think the site is built on quite an outdated.platform & can't easily be transferred across.to something more.modern. The tools for dealing with spammers.are pretty limited unfortunately. It was worth the effort when the site was busier ....not so much now.
I guess it must be vulnerable to that.
I've got automatic checks set on the mightycarmods forums, some of the spammers do slip through but only the ones that are set up by actual people from what I can make out.
Sneaky bastards make a post, then edit it quickly and add embedded links. As the spam checker doesn't check post edits...
Well were do i start, since the forum was put online, i am not really sure if the owners ever bothered investing in many upgrades or changes like .net did. There was a thread on here years ago about making changes, and nothing really changed at all, except a few moderators. It seems to me that practically everyone in the last few years has really lost interest in the club or the forum for some reason. Its not for the lack of cars, i am a moderator on one of the 306owners groups on facebook, and that's busy, people posting up about their cars etc. It could do with a major refresh, but i don't think that's going to happen at all.
(24-09-2021, 09:46 PM)Fooby Wrote: We do have stopforumspam and other tools but it looks like they are just been sussed by bots.
I could put in updated stuff but its not worth it. If there is a demand to register properly then i'll purge all 0 post spammers and re-enable. But we'll have to disable automatic approval. Just means someone might wait a while whist they are verified
fooby from what i have seen, its like no one seems to care now about the forum at all, Hardly any admins are active, you have only one active moderator now. I think the club needs a total reboot, A few people have asked me on the 306owners club group, i am a moderator of, to link the forum, as i do try and push people to use this place, for the data base on the car. The metro scene went through this, they changed from modding to save as many as possible. , as i said before years ago, and no one listened, all i got was a sarcastic reply.