We have turned off unregistered posting in this forum!

[kirinke]

Hopes aside, spammers will always find a way to spam. They must eat tons of the stuff.

 

[genshou]

I had a spam-ridden email address that was inactive for nine months. Turned it back on and got two hundred emails in the first five minutes, all spam. I'm afraid it probably isn't going to get any better if you turn the feature back on later in time.

 

[Jdvn1]

In theory. In practice, it was rarely used.

While true, I have to agree with Boz. It was super-useful. And, no matter how rarely it was used, whenever a user (like me ) did use it, it was invaluable.

 

[Nyaricus]

I had a spam-ridden email address that was inactive for nine months. Turned it back on and got two hundred emails in the first five minutes, all spam. I'm afraid it probably isn't going to get any better if you turn the feature back on later in time.

wow dude, that's friggin insane.

 

[Jdvn1]

Interestingly, I've seen two "registered" spam since the unregistered posting has been turned off.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=167939
http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=2936033&postcount=1118

Is it possible that the lack of unregistered posting only attracts registered spam? Because I'd much rather have spam be contained to Meta than have it be in other forums.

 

[Piratecat]

Ah, what you don't realize is that we already have a lot of registered spam, but that an automatic filter takers care of most of it before it ever reaches the forums. When spam gets through, I enter the url on the blacklist - and that's the only time spam for the site will show up.

 

[Jdvn1]

Just seemed suspicious to get two in such a small timeperiod, when I haven't noticed any registered spam in a while.

 

[DaveMage]

I love the new "I'm a Spammer" category.

 

[BOZ]

me too! i'm definitely digging it! any real people that have a problem with using that can easily fix it.

you know though, i actually ran into a situation where having unregistered posting would have come in handy right now. i'm on my wife's machine due to some unresolved technical issues on my own. i was using IE to post, and then suddenly i was logged out and couldn't log back in. i deleted my cookies, but still no luck. i thought i was about to be done for the night, when i remembered that she has another browser, so here i am.

 

[Piratecat]

Remember, our email addresses are up there in the sticky thread. Just shoot us an email.