So how about add real accounts where no one can post without having a validated email address - which can be blacklisted?
And how about add a 'Report' button where it's enough if 2-3 people with 500+ posts press it to auto-hide the post. Or 5-10 people with maybe 25+ posts. And revoked rights to tag threads if abused for other purposes. Maybe even take a chance and let some users alone hide spam threads.
In the end, it's well known that the use of a captcha does not really help - there are too good libraries for auto-processing of them.
Maybe even be mean and requiring that a new account needs to wait for at least 1 hour before being allowed to make any posts to make it less fun for robot software to create an account and then pump in new threads.
This forum can only survive if spam threads are removed fast enough that it isn't meaningful to try to get Google and other search engines to catch and index the spam threads before the treads are dead. Right now, that is a failing battle because too much spam threads survives far too long - making this a top-priority site for adding even more spam.
Totally agree. This crap is killing the forum. Keil needs a proactive moderator to kill the stuff. And the best captchas I've ever seen as questions:
what is the answer to a*2 + 5 where a is 2? These are almost foolproof.
there are fora that manage to stay (virtually) spam free without having the annoying captchas (except for registering)
Erik
The big problem here is that the spammers are constantly scanning the net for forums to post in.They ignore any forum with quick removal of spam. But if they see the spam remain long enough, they tag the forum as "good" for their purposes. And so the amount of spam attacks will skyrocket.
Keil has now been tagged as a good target.