Would it be possible to have irrelevant posts and torrents deleted by the moderators, so as not to interfere with the serious discussion and relevant downloading, the purpose of this forum?

Can we ban those who disrespect elementary conduct, please.

For those who agree plz say something to the moderator.

some examples:
http://chomskytorrents.org/phpBB2/searc ... =SongsGirl
and torrents like:
NEW 3D SexVilla v25 - newest version - new ladies (Miscellaneous)

I totally agree. There's been quite a lot of spam recently, and we need to do something about it.

I wouldn't worry to much. More spam generally means we get more of the good visitors as well, or vice versa if you will, spam follows fame, so there's a bright side to the problem

During early-midsummers the internet generally faces low-activity so it's not unusual to notice increases this time of year. We delete all spam and bad torrents as soon as we see them, sometimes it takes awhile and it's impossible to please someone that wants it removed within 5 minutes (for example that new3d sexvilla was uploaded today) so please bear with us in the delays.

We ban these users as much as possible, altho it doesn't yield much effect considering the use of randomname-generators and personal email-servers out there. In the old days you cold just ban a few spam-related hosts ( *@hotmail.com) and get rid of most, but it's not that easy today with the vast amount of emailservers.

I guess it's a good example of how the real world would look if corporations could advertise as much as they wanted, anywhere they wanted. Our friend, the market.

Thanks for the feedback.

Just a little udate on the issue for those concerned. Have kept an eye on the email-addresses of the spammers lately, it's crazy how many spam-mailservers there are out there....

For example a recent one signed up using dsfgt@ list.ru
The point being one would basically have to put a ban on Russia entirely in order to stop that sort of spam, sooner or later no one would be able to sign up, since that one from russia was just an example.

It sure seems like the spam is originating fro the same source, right? Well, sadly enough it isnt. We better just hope for better working laws against spam, the bad side of that solution is that laws affecting internet-"freedom" could have downsides to them

There's an option to use word-filters, but it wouldn't do much good, basically it would just replace words, I.E "Fuck You" ---> "Love you", and leave the topic itself inplace.

Yet another option is to try and ban certain usernames, I.E blablabla... or even blablabla...*, stopping anyone from signing up using a name with blablabla... in it. However the spammers have adaptedpretty well to most "filters" during the years, making it often impossible to tell if a random username is a spammer or not.

If anyone knows about any effective solutions please bring it forward, until then we'll just have to relax, ignore it tl it gets removed, and hope it's in relatio to increased traffic overall, which I hope nobody minds

edit: fixed some missing letters, I need to buy a new keyboard, this cheap one turned out to e a nightmare, have to sla it with a hammer for keypreses to register...as you can see from what I just wrote *sigh*

On my main site (not the Galloway archive in my sig) I had to recently force an admin check on new members - so instead of there being auto-signup the person has to send an email from an ISP account or they don't get access.

Anyone who has something worthwhile to post isn't likely to be bothered by a bit of a delay.

we just recently activated e-mail confirmation on sign-up (we should have done this earlier) -- . seems to have reduced the amount of spammers considerably. i guess we can deal with what remains..

faceless wrote:On my main site (not the Galloway archive in my sig) I had to recently force an admin check on new members - so instead of there being auto-signup the person has to send an email from an ISP account or they don't get access.

Anyone who has something worthwhile to post isn't likely to be bothered by a bit of a delay.

This isn't good.
Many people may not want to use their ISP account because it contains their names. Or it's just to easy for them to be identified.

Couldn't you just ban spammers via their user IP's?
If you ban their emails, they'll just sign up on another email host.

Judging from the description i doubt this torrent belongs here:
http://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/5775/Mishu