Guest account access needs removed

[Horus]

Has any of the forum admins look in the Map Making Support section recently?

There is a ton of Guest Bot spam in there, including apparent pron links...


I think it's time that Guest account access is removed.

[Eddaweaver]

Horus, click on "Memberlist" and look at the hundreds of spam-bot registered accounts; that's actually a far bigger problem than the fake guest-posts. Removing guest-posting won't help anymore and just discourages neophytes from asking questions. The account creation and guest-posting procedures need some minor catch to foil the spammerbots.

[GizmoHB]

still wondering why the switch to phpbb happened, could have seen this 1 coming...

...Giz

[Lugas]

I would've thought guest spam posts could be mercilessly deleted. Any reason why this isn't happening?

[Horus]

Horus, click on "Memberlist" and look at the hundreds of spam-bot registered accounts; that's actually a far bigger problem than the fake guest-posts.

Registering bots actually don't post... and on sites where they have to confirm registeration they don't do that either. All those ones have is a linked website in their profile.

Example = TFV forums gets hit by a couple of registering bots a day, none of which have ever activated their accounts or posted.

Removing guest-posting won't help anymore and just discourages neophytes from asking questions. The account creation and guest-posting procedures need some minor catch to foil the spammerbots.

Accounts and questions single forum with guest access cleaned regularly, solves that issue.

[iron]

I agree, its time guest posting was removed.

There could also be some form of automated account deletion after a time period has elapsed without the account registration being confirmed.

[Lugas]

And a spam dumping area would be nice.