Spammer is currently active in Surveyors Operators and Engineers which part answers your question, already reported it.
Spam Attacks
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Spammer is currently active in Surveyors Operators and Engineers which part answers your question, already reported it.
I just reported one in this forum.
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Get out the big hammer, moderators. the big onslaught is heading your way!
John
Zeldaboy14
Owner of ZPW.
The only forums that are off limits to new users and ones that don't have registered trainz copies is the one that has all of the different versions (minus the T:ANE one)
Steamdemon
Pizza Delivery Train
Another one spotted. It's been posting in the Chinese branch forum, the parts and labour forum and the general trainz forum.
Notice it's all located in the Parts & Labour and General Trainz boards?
Honestly, how can moderators have let this continue this long? Surely someone would have realised that no matter how many times you delete the threads themselves, the users/machines who posted them in the first place would simply post a new string of these pointless gobbledegook threads!
Honestly, how can moderators have let this continue this long? Surely someone would have realised that no matter how many times you delete the threads themselves, the users/machines who posted them in the first place would simply post a new string of these pointless gobbledegook threads!
Working on it.
Got no permissions in the Chineese section, so that part has to wait for another moderator.
Edit: Tony is jumping those.
We do not get paid for this.
If you see spam, please report it by pressing the tiny triangle below the post, so we know about it, instead of complaining about it and not reporting it.
Thanks @ Steamdemon, Shane, CaptainKman and a few others for reporting the posts.
Got no permissions in the Chineese section, so that part has to wait for another moderator.
Edit: Tony is jumping those.
Because we have a life outside this forum.
We do not get paid for this.
If you see spam, please report it by pressing the tiny triangle below the post, so we know about it, instead of complaining about it and not reporting it.
Thanks @ Steamdemon, Shane, CaptainKman and a few others for reporting the posts.
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We could simply ignore it although I concede that that will probably not make it go away - the spammer(s) probably get paid 1c (or 1d) for each posting so they could afford to ignore us ignoring them. The poor sods probably don't even realise that few of us forum members can read Korean (anyone?)
"at source" ... would a nuclear strike on the Philippines, or Korea (North or South?) or better still, the virtual country hosting the online casino they are advertising, do the trick?
Just a few random thoughts while I await the release of SP1 - only 40 minutes to go before it is Tuesday Jan 12th here.
"At source" means applying the common sense restrictions on new members if not a registered Trainz user outlined several times over these pages:
1. First post(s) subject to moderator or admin check.
2. Not able to start a new topic or thread until they have replied a set number of times.
Utter complacency on behalf of N3V when you don't see this type of thing at UKTS, Trainsim.com or more general popular forums such as Overclockers UK.
1. First post(s) subject to moderator or admin check.
2. Not able to start a new topic or thread until they have replied a set number of times.
Utter complacency on behalf of N3V when you don't see this type of thing at UKTS, Trainsim.com or more general popular forums such as Overclockers UK.
shaneturner12
Tutorial Creator
Quick question Vern - do the other forums you mention include a membership system similar to MyTrainz?
Shane
Shane
Not that I'm aware of.
shaneturner12
Tutorial Creator
That would make some sense. It appears that the integrated nature of the MyTrainz system seems to be limiting the spam prevention methods available here. Perhaps N3V will know what is indeed possible.
Shane
Shane
You end up banning proxy servers, resulting in also banning all normal users using those servers.
ianwoodmore
Active member
Spam has started again about 30 mins ago.
Pity you can't employ a trick I used on automated FAX calls that used to bug me in middle of night.
We had a fax/phone switch.
When a polite request to delete us from there calling list did not work, I forwarded all fax calls straight back at them.
Didn't take long to get some action.
Pity you can't employ a trick I used on automated FAX calls that used to bug me in middle of night.
We had a fax/phone switch.
When a polite request to delete us from there calling list did not work, I forwarded all fax calls straight back at them.
Didn't take long to get some action.
Yup. The old fax was easy to defeat once you waste their paper.
My brother had an issue with fax spam a few years ago so we created a stack of paper which we sent back to the caller. Each page sent spelled out DO NOT SEND THIS TO ME with each letter on a single page and each letter at as large as it would fit on the page. The callers got the hint really fast after they wasted their paper and toner. Another one kept faxing anyway every day so we taped three sheets of paper together into a single page with some not-so-nice words on it, then taped the ends together to create a loop. This worked really fast after that.
cascaderailroad
New member
Spam attack again
