Heres the thing, as someone with some experience in the backend admin of forums, it is exceptionally easy to do as many have suggested and it has been easily doable for years (decades in fact....). The admin sets a "whitelist" which you get on after a set number of posts....say 5. Before that, all posts go into quarantine waiting mod approval. Given that most spam has a bunch of odd characters like brackets, parentheses, words (i.e. male enhancement pills, etc), it takes a very short time i.e. minutes to quickly approve/deny the post as one can simply scroll through and visually delete the offender. It is simply script of a dozen or so lines of code.
The frustration at the mods here I would suggest is fully justified since this is such an easy fix that they are unable (i.e. lack basic technical ability) or unwilling to correct. I for one cant understand this since the backend folks here undeniably have the technical chops to run this website, so I'm baffled as everyone else.
So yes, keep the pressure on....
The frustration at the mods here I would suggest is fully justified since this is such an easy fix that they are unable (i.e. lack basic technical ability) or unwilling to correct. I for one cant understand this since the backend folks here undeniably have the technical chops to run this website, so I'm baffled as everyone else.
So yes, keep the pressure on....