Large number of forum sign-ups

[Golf Tee Warehouse]

I have just had a look at the forum member list after noticing a spam message on the joke forum quickly disappear and that the spammer banned and have noticed that there seems to be a very large increase in the number of new members in the last week.

Look back over the history the normal number of new members per day seems to vary typically from 2 to 7, but since the 5th November it has risen to between 42 and 96 per day (483 in the last 7 days), I think the new moderators might be kept on their toes.

[leehack]

It's pretty horrific at the moment, i must have deleted 30+ people in the last 48 hours.

[Rich Brady]

You've got too much time on your hands

[Golf Tee Warehouse]

You've got too much time on your hands

I'm not the one who took just 2 minutes to reply, although with the number of accounts you need to delete you''ll have a lot less time on your hands if it gets any worse.

Perhaps it's just a test from Actinic Towers:
Announcement of new moderators 04-Nov-2009, 10:20 PM
Increase in forum signups: 05-Nov-2009

[leehack]

You've got too much time on your hands

Not really, i have no blog, no ebay, very little twitter etc. tot up all the time you spend on that lot and i bet it's less than me on here.

[Rich Brady]

PMSL Lee I meant Darren...

[leehack]

Well be bloody clear will you man, i'd hate to add soemthing to your posts as though you'd said it.

[Rich Brady]

Well be bloody clear will you man, i'd hate to add soemthing to your posts as though you'd said it.

LOL It's not my fault you posted just before mine... You leave my posts alone Mr Hackett

[swardell]

Afternoon guys, yes I've been watching the growing number of registrations and hopefully will be implementing a few changes that will help. If you recall some time ago we banned a huge range of IP addresses based on their geographic region, looking at the recent registrations we may be able to extend that to help.

[pinbrook]

whilst you are at it Steve, how about implementing something that was discussed before ie requiring a post to be moderated if it is the first post from a new signee and contains a link.

[Darren B]

turn on the moderate new user sign ups makes it alot easier

[leehack]

It's already on.

[pinbrook]

It's already on.

how come 2 of the spams i reported thisweek were just that... ie the first post and contained a spam link?

[leehack]

Because it can be circumvented by people who know what they are doing, i believe it runs on time. At the moment Jo, it's horrific it really is, the fact that you are only seeing a couple is testament to how hard people are working to keep things clean. If you look at the member list and sort on join date, you will see the scale of the problem the last week or so.

[pinbrook]

I am sure the new mods are doing all they can

it just seemed strange that these types of posts were still getting through, they must be craftier than i thought or the add on is not up to much.

Still i agree i've only seen a handful of spam posts and agree the community is working well.