Random posters!!

Quoted from 1739

Fully agree with this. Being took over by wums and its starting to get annoying.

I agree and this new member mr rattray is no relations to me

Can't these sharp objects be blocked by there IP Address, then any doing duplicate accounts will be banned permanently?

Quoted from 470

Can't these sharp objects be blocked by there IP Address, then any doing duplicate accounts will be banned permanently?

Some poeple's IPs change automatically every day though. Best way is to ban email addresses I think. They'll get bored of creating new ones just to re-register eventually. If they don't then they really are mentally ill and/or have way too much time.

Quoted from upthestripes

Some poeple's IPs change automatically every day though. Best way is to ban email addresses I think. They'll get bored of creating new ones just to re-register eventually. If they don't then they really are mentally ill and/or have way too much time.

another way which can unfortunately annoy normal users, is to ban registering with free email address such as hotmail and gmail too. Also like someone mentioned above bring in those silly picture word things in to make sure the user is at least human.

It is but that would mean everyone re-registering and losing their post counts etc. Some folk are quite protective of their "status" on here! The "captcha" system would be a step in making sure new members are real people and not bots.

If Rob decides to upgrade the forum software I reckon everyone would have to re-register and start from scratch anyway. If the Captcha system were to be adopted it would ensure the forum only had real people.

Registering with a free email address doesn't guarantee the user won't invent a whole raft full of addresses. It's sad but there are trolls out there that would do just that. The Football365.com forum actually insisted on a school or work email address. That's a bit OTT IMHO.

I don't know the full answer but for now I think there's relatively few incidents we're not aware of and manage reasonably well. Of course, any complaints can be addressed to Rob...

Quoted from Biccys

It is but that would mean everyone re-registering and losing their post counts etc. Some folk are quite protective of their "status" on here! The "captcha" system would be a step in making sure new members are real people and not bots.

If Rob decides to upgrade the forum software I reckon everyone would have to re-register and start from scratch anyway. If the Captcha system were to be adopted it would ensure the forum only had real people.

Registering with a free email address doesn't guarantee the user won't invent a whole raft full of addresses. It's sad but there are trolls out there that would do just that. The Football365.com forum actually insisted on a school or work email address. That's a bit OTT IMHO.

I don't know the full answer but for now I think there's relatively few incidents we're not aware of and manage reasonably well. Of course, any complaints can be addressed to Rob...

There have been a couple of forums I've joined over the years where instead of a Captcha caption there has just been a field where a question, which anybody would know has to be answered. That would stop the spam posters just the same I would have thought.

Yeah, variation of a theme really.

Quoted from Biccys

Yeah, variation of a theme really.

Those Captcha's are a bloody nightmare sometimes.

If rob upgrades the forum and everybody starts again like re registering i think that many people shall say no and just walk away including me and then that shall mean the forum shall have like 40 users

Quoted from aaron rattray

If rob upgrades the forum and everybody starts again like re registering i think that many people shall say no and just walk away including me and then that shall mean the forum shall have like 40 users

QUICK ROB, UPGRADE THE FORUM!