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I'm not sure if it's enabled, but myBB has an option to do an email confirmation on registration. This may help slow down some spamming.
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Kib
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It's enabled. These are not bots but people creating acounts and then handing them to bots.
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da-anda
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we first need to upgrade the forum to a newer version, but that's kind of an issue with the size of the DB atm - constantly failed on my local tests
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un1versal
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Well, we are all part of same community and Im sure that the team can rely on some community members to perform small tasks of maintenance here and there.
Its been suggested before many ways in which community memebrs can help, the ball is on the teams court and has been there for a long time.
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2015-11-11, 05:51
(This post was last modified: 2015-11-11, 06:16 by mikeSiLVO.)
Since another influx of Chinese spam is currently hitting the skinning forum, I'd like to once again suggest a posting time limit for new members that if exceeded trigger an auto-ban. Possibly give a link to ask for an account review on there no permissions page if they might not be spammers. I honestly do not know what tools are available to use but in case my original suggestion was overlooked I thought I would mention it one last time.
Thanks.
I really wish I had the ability to ban these users and delete their posts...
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Hats off to all the Kodi guys here. I appreciate that these issues must be 1000 x more frustrating for you.
But as a normal user I can say that I subscribe to the android and hardware forums in their entirety which is a blessing and a curse. I'd like to stay on top of new things, but the sheer weight of crap new threads being posted there on a daily basis is frustrating to say the least.
Maybe new members or low post count should be further restricted from starting new threads?
Often there is already an existing thread that can answer such questions or at least push people to read first, post when they understand some things, and be redirected to a more appropriate thread thereafter if necessary.
New members constantly starting new threads to ask why their fire stick is crashing or asking for a recommendation on hardware when it seems they haven't even bothered to check anything for themselves starts to get a little tiresome...
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