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Hello,
I've recently seen many spam posts on the forums, for people trying to get others to buy things or go to some random website in order to scam you or end up giving you viruses. Is there no way for these to be stopped as they cause a threat to other users of the forums?
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11-14-2012, 09:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-14-2012, 09:06 AM by loopyman.)
Ive recently seen many spam posts from people trying to raise their post count so they can post in the advertising forum. These posts tend to be in old ass threads some of which are over 2 years in age. Is there no way for these to be stopped as they cause clutter and useless one lined shitposts agreeing with the previous post are just not necessary.
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These forums are brilliant, it's a shame they're not used as much nowadays though. Is there any reason behind this ?
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11-14-2012, 10:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-14-2012, 10:27 PM by Nisd.)
Suppose most people are starting to know what they are doing?
And most of the help requests are just "OMG plzzz helpz, my server not work", and I can't be asked to actually answer that type of posts.
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I guess, well it'd be good if these forums started to get used again I think  They seem a little dead.
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Na its just difficult to help people when you're sorting through 10+ recently posted shitposts and spam that have been bumped...
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Ah I see, well as I've said, would love these forums to be more active especially as I am looking into hosting source servers since I got into them
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11-18-2012, 01:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-18-2012, 01:23 AM by realchamp.)
(11-16-2012, 09:07 AM)ENS-LTD Wrote: Ah I see, well as I've said, would love these forums to be more active especially as I am looking into hosting source servers since I got into them
That requires Valve to create new games which will bring new users and old users back. Since Valve hasn't released anything in particular lately the forums might seem a bit dead. Global Offensive didn't do much good and it was probably a mistake to make it... (my opinion), seeing as the community is now split up in 3 games instead of 2, where Source had the majority of players, which was the majority of this forum.
Many people fall from the SRCDS community(sadly), since it's aged and there are many more fancy things to do. But once Valve revive the engine, it will(hopefully) be sparkling new and shiny(Source Engine 2). And that would bring some life into these forums once again.
And keep the reports coming, I know there's a slight delay between reporting and action, but we're still here... sometimes. 
We can't do much about spammers, we have tried different mechanisms, but none of them seems to work properly. (recapcha etc)
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Awesome! I look forward to the day when the forums are 'buzzing' again with life.
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First of all, sorry for the bump I just had to reply to this thread.
(11-18-2012, 01:22 AM)realchamp Wrote: That requires Valve to create new games which will bring new users and old users back. Since Valve hasn't released anything in particular lately the forums might seem a bit dead. Global Offensive didn't do much good and it was probably a mistake to make it... (my opinion), seeing as the community is now split up in 3 games instead of 2, where Source had the majority of players, which was the majority of this forum.
Many people fall from the SRCDS community(sadly), since it's aged and there are many more fancy things to do. But once Valve revive the engine, it will(hopefully) be sparkling new and shiny(Source Engine 2). And that would bring some life into these forums once again.
And keep the reports coming, I know there's a slight delay between reporting and action, but we're still here... sometimes.
We can't do much about spammers, we have tried different mechanisms, but none of them seems to work properly. (recapcha etc)
Some off the silence around here might also be cauzed bij the new downloader 'steamCMD' There aren't any guides on here about that.
Really stopping spam accounts is relativly easy, don't allow any new registrations. Or better said only allow them with a steam account. .
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(11-18-2012, 01:22 AM)realchamp Wrote: (11-16-2012, 09:07 AM)ENS-LTD Wrote: Ah I see, well as I've said, would love these forums to be more active especially as I am looking into hosting source servers since I got into them
That requires Valve to create new games which will bring new users and old users back. Since Valve hasn't released anything in particular lately the forums might seem a bit dead. Global Offensive didn't do much good and it was probably a mistake to make it... (my opinion), seeing as the community is now split up in 3 games instead of 2, where Source had the majority of players, which was the majority of this forum.
Many people fall from the SRCDS community(sadly), since it's aged and there are many more fancy things to do. But once Valve revive the engine, it will(hopefully) be sparkling new and shiny(Source Engine 2). And that would bring some life into these forums once again.
And keep the reports coming, I know there's a slight delay between reporting and action, but we're still here... sometimes.
We can't do much about spammers, we have tried different mechanisms, but none of them seems to work properly. (recapcha etc)
There are other ways of protecting a MyBB forum without the need of recaptcha. I run a couple of popular MyBB forums which I've completely made it impossible for spambots to post.
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I just recently closed mine but nobody used them anyway... Just gonna start using the steam ones :/
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