URL Submitted by User

[rgATL]

Hey, what's up with this "URL Submitted by User" stuff? How are we supposed to make use of helpful links posted by fellow broadcasters (searching now is useless).

rg.

[Sawg]

It blocks out dirty, dirty spammers. Hit the quote button if you want to see the actual link.

[rgATL]

Hey Sawg, thanks for your reply.

Hmm, I can understand the need to stop spammers, but having to hit "quote" with each post then copy/paste to get to the URL, makes reading hundreds of posts very difficult. This drastically reduces the effectiveness of the forums.

Admins, please reconsider this method of anti-spam.

Thanks,
rg.

[tuckerm]

You should have seen the forums before it..it was a nightmare. It's a welcomed thing for a change.

[rgATL]

Admittedly, I've been away from awhile. Things were fine before. Did they go all crazy? Was it automated or human spamming (the former can be easily stopped)?

rg.

[fc*uk]

no privy to what form of spamming it actually was, but there were mountains of it.

I agree with you; it is a pain. However, it is a pain that I am more than willing to endure.

[tuckerm]

It was automated and it got real bad.

[fc*uk]

I'm automated.

Behold:

[rgATL]

Automated is easy to overcome. Just have to put a random question script into the registration process. When I installed a forum on my small website, I got loads of spammers signing up every day; I couldn't keep up with deleting it all. After I installed the question script...not a single spammer.

rg.

[tuckerm]

Not always is it that easy, rgATL. Bitching about it here will do nothing, this should be in the Bitch List.