Hate to have to do it but spammers are ruining the Internet.

Post down

But that will hurt a lot of legitimate users as well Dave.

Negative

There has been very few legitimate new users to the forum area.

If they want in they will contact the admin.

It shows we are dedicated to quality not quantity.

Besides one of the bots posted porn this morning.

They have been posting porn for a couple of weeks. i have been banning about 5 bots or spammers a day

Personally, i don't mind the old system. So what if we have to permaban 20 spammers a day. It takes about 15 seconds .. at twenty a day, it's 5 minutes.

i like the old way better. None of the regular members even see the spammers because (as far as we know, not a single spammer got through our 3 post rule).

i think you have made the restrictions too severe. We won't have any new signups if they have to email us first
- i wouldn't join a site with those restrictions

Is it possible to only congratulate members with birthdays if they had more than (say 5 posts)? The congratulations section is about 3 lines long at the moment and chock full of spammer AI "members".

Good idea

It's not one of the options.

However I need to purge the database.

It is now 17,000 spammers

i go through the AI birthdays every day and ban spammers.

i don't even know why we have a birthday list

And i want to re-open the registration the way it was ASAP as we do have regular posters signs every week