Spambots these days are usually a step ahead of whatever automated features get developed to block them. Half the time, they simply outsource human verification to large rooms of people who simply solve Catchpas, answer human verification questions, or solve little puzzles all day. The only definite defence is to (a) not get noticed and added to the spammers lists [too late for us!]; or (b) have robust and constant human monitoring 24/7 to catch, delete, and ban them.
Our primary spambuster, [MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION], does a wonderful job. But there are 24 time zones on this little planet of ours, and people have jobs and families. So what's needed is a team of spambusters covering the whole day.
If you are on EN World a lot, we would love your help. I'd like to give a few trusted people the ability to spamban. This is a fairly powerful ability - in one click it bans someone, deletes everything they ever did, and reports their IP to an international spam database, effectively banning them from forums worldwide who use that database. So you have to be sure it's a spambot you're hitting.
Anyone up for helping us with this? It just means using the boards as you usually would, but when you see a spambot, you spamban it.
Our primary spambuster, [MENTION=19675]Dannyalcatraz[/MENTION], does a wonderful job. But there are 24 time zones on this little planet of ours, and people have jobs and families. So what's needed is a team of spambusters covering the whole day.
If you are on EN World a lot, we would love your help. I'd like to give a few trusted people the ability to spamban. This is a fairly powerful ability - in one click it bans someone, deletes everything they ever did, and reports their IP to an international spam database, effectively banning them from forums worldwide who use that database. So you have to be sure it's a spambot you're hitting.
Anyone up for helping us with this? It just means using the boards as you usually would, but when you see a spambot, you spamban it.