Meta about Meta--Rename this Forum

[JohnRTroy]

Spammers have figured out how to spam by looking at forum categories and using common names of forums with their auto-sign-up scripts.

Most of the names of the forums are not targetted of spammers here, but I'll bet a forum named Meta gets spammed a lot. I've seen this happen in other forums. And right now this forum seems to be where spam gets sent to.

I would suggest renaming the forum from "meta" to something else. Maybe something cool like DMs of Enworld or something a bot wouldn't get.

 

[Greylock]

You DON'T want the spam to come to Meta? Isn't this the best place for it to end up?

 

[Michael Morris]

Spammers have figured out how to spam by looking at forum categories and using common names of forums with their auto-sign-up scripts.

Most of the names of the forums are not targetted of spammers here, but I'll bet a forum named Meta gets spammed a lot. I've seen this happen in other forums. And right now this forum seems to be where spam gets sent to.

I would suggest renaming the forum from "meta" to something else. Maybe something cool like DMs of Enworld or something a bot wouldn't get.

Wrong. The main reason this forum gets hit is guests can post without an account to this forum. And trust me, you're only seeing 1 in 15 spams - most die to the spam bot.

 

[blargney the second]

guests can post without an account to this forum.

I never knew that! ... how come?
-blarg

 

[Dog Moon]

I never knew that! ... how come?
-blarg

I would assume that if for some reason my account wasn't working, I could come to Meta to help get it solved without having to make an entirely new account to do that.

 

[Darkness]

I never knew that! ... how come?
-blarg

Well, some problems (i.e., things you'd post about in Meta) are all about not being able to post with your account.

Examples:
Registered an account but didn't get (or lost) the validation e-mail.
Changed e-mail address and (maybe much later) forgot password.

 

[Mark]

Hand and Eye of Ninja'd!

 

[Darkness]

And so another chapter in the eternal war between pirates and ninja begins...

 

[Brown Jenkin]

And so another chapter in the eternal war between pirates and ninja begins...

Unfortunately it is the robots that are winning.

 

[Dog Moon]

Unfortunately it is the robots that are winning.

Maybe, but I hear the Ninjas are creating their own Ninja robots, and that doesn't look good for the robots OR the pirates.