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calum
January 10th, 2009, 11:59 AM
Hello

We have been running a user clean up on the forum to delete all the spam, bot or other users.

We have deleted all users who have not verified there email address and have been registered for over 7 days.

Other users deleted are ones with spam words in their names such as xxx, viagra etc.

We are also planning to upgrade the forum software to vBulletin 3.8 which was released recently. We are just waiting to hear back from the custom template developer who will get our template working in the latest version of vBulletin then we will go through with the upgrade.

Calum
OS Master
January 10th, 2009, 01:51 PM
Sounds good Calum. Can't wait to see the forum upgraded!
Mesmer
January 11th, 2009, 08:00 AM
Well done, those improvements will make CompuTalk the safest forum around I reckon.
Circuit
January 11th, 2009, 08:40 AM
Well done, those improvements will make CompuTalk the safest forum around I reckon.

By far.

Ill be on my best behaviour from now on then. :)
Mesmer
January 11th, 2009, 08:56 AM
By far.

Ill be on my best behaviour from now on then. :)
Ha ha, you already are!! http://smilies.sofrayt.com/^/aiw/smile.gif
Circuit
January 11th, 2009, 09:09 AM
Ha ha, you already are!! http://smilies.sofrayt.com/^/aiw/smile.gif

:) I'm glad you think so. :)
calum
January 11th, 2009, 10:29 AM
Well you see the thing is we used to get tonnes of spam. So I set up a simple plugin that meant users could not posts links until they made at least 15 posts. This stopped all the spam posts but we still got thousands of spam members joining then leaving since they couldn't make spam posts.

When the vBulletin 3.8 upgrade is done I have also hired someone to set up a lot of spam prevention software that will just stop spam bots and stop all spam even from registering.
Circuit
January 11th, 2009, 11:06 AM
I can't stand spammers. What kind of person goes around trying to spoil fun, useful communities like this.
Mesmer
January 11th, 2009, 11:23 AM
Well you see the thing is we used to get tonnes of spam. So I set up a simple plugin that meant users could not posts links until they made at least 15 posts. This stopped all the spam posts but we still got thousands of spam members joining then leaving since they couldn't make spam posts.

When the vBulletin 3.8 upgrade is done I have also hired someone to set up a lot of spam prevention software that will just stop spam bots and stop all spam even from registering.
That's better still!, less work for your two mods!!.http://smilies.sofrayt.com/^/aiw/smile.gif