X rated Memberlist

osd9

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Oct 3, 2006
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2003 410DA
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Caterpillar 3126-TA w/ ZF 80-IV
Now that I have your attention....I was going through the Memberlist to see who was here from the "early days" and I noticed a "bunch" of members with USA as their home port and a website next to their memberlist entry.....well...you guessed it....the website is X-RATED.....so....my suggestion would be for the moderators to go through the memberlist and delete any suspect entries......

thanks,
 
I will second that motion, I sent a pm to a mod a few days back about spam in one forum, he deleted in a matter of minutes, he was logged on at the time, I later looked in the member list and found that the spammer is in the member list.
 
There are spambots that register on a daily basis,happens to all forums. Over time I have been implementing measures to keep themfrom registering but I can't get stop them all. There are planty of those usernames in the memberlist. I have no easy way to delete them at this point aside from picking through the massive list one at a time. At this point the only thing x-rated in the forums is the title of this thread. I can very easily remove the "website" column in the memberlist so that if anybody else finds themselves searching through member info from 2 years ago they won't accidently click on a porn site :grin:
 
admin said:
At this point the only thing x-rated in the forums is the title of this thread.

Sorry about my choice for the title....Please feel free to change it....
 
admin said:
There are spambots that register on a daily basis,happens to all forums. Over time I have been implementing measures to keep themfrom registering but I can't get stop them all. There are planty of those usernames in the memberlist. I have no easy way to delete them at this point aside from picking through the massive list one at a time. At this point the only thing x-rated in the forums is the title of this thread. I can very easily remove the "website" column in the memberlist so that if anybody else finds themselves searching through member info from 2 years ago they won't accidently click on a porn site :grin:
That makes sense, I had not thought about the massive number, just like spam on email not much you can do about it, block it and they rewrite and bypass block.
 
fwebster said:
How about just deleting anyone that has not posted in 90 days?


Or maybe it is better if it is possible: when a member didn't log in for 90 days.

Peter
 
That seems like a better idea as many folks may just be lurkers or just don't post during the winter months...
 
Could we REQUIRE that ALL members provide simple information about their boat (Year, Make Model, Engines) and if you have no boat information (Non boat owner) you would need special dispensation from the webmaster.......
 
Member List

A lot of people do include their boat specs in their profile. If we require members to do that I think it will compromise the validity of the info. If it is required for members to participate that they are an actual Sea Ray owner I think we will end up with a lot of people that just say they own a Sea Ray in order to participate. So there will be a lot of fake info. I'm sure there are lots of members that have registered an only check-in every so often. I don't think it is right to delete users that don't like to log in as much as other users.

Perhaps I can make a Sticky that encourages Sea Ray owners to include their info in their signature. We would need to come up with a preferred structure. Any ideas? How about:

Boat Make/Model
Year
Engines
Boat Name
Location
 
I think that works Jim,

If we make it more difficult and personal, it is too difficult for these guys.

I saw that you already "cleaned" the member list a little?
Or did you only deleted the double registered members that were caused of the registration problems?

Peter
 
I cleaned a few hundred names out of it. i always knew they were there but didn't realise people looked at them :huh: I will try to keep a closer eye on spambot registrations. There are a lot of measures in place here to thwart this stuff but if every forum was able to filter out everything we wouldn't need moderators. If everybody is keeping an eye out for bad posts and alerts me or a moderator about them they should get deleted pretty quick. Don't reply to spam posts because all it does is bring it back to the top which is what the spammers want.
 
So we don't want to require boat specific information on registration and we don't want to purge inactive members yet this is a brand specific forum ?

I don't understand the problem with asking regular members to give us enough data about their boat to allow members to help them solve problems and tighten the registration process. Anyone who shopping for a boat, wants to visit and look around or who thinks we are going to stalk them or something could register as guests. Even handling guest registration maunally on an exception basis couldn't be that time consuming.

I do this to basically to help other people learn and honestly, I've gotten to the point that I just pass rather than to dig out boat data from reluctant members. If they don't give me the information necessary to help them, I guess someone else can do it.
 
Re: Member List

admin said:
A lot of people do include their boat specs in their profile. If we require members to do that I think it will compromise the validity of the info. If it is required for members to participate that they are an actual Sea Ray owner I think we will end up with a lot of people that just say they own a Sea Ray in order to participate. So there will be a lot of fake info. I'm sure there are lots of members that have registered an only check-in every so often. I don't think it is right to delete users that don't like to log in as much as other users.

Perhaps I can make a Sticky that encourages Sea Ray owners to include their info in their signature. We would need to come up with a preferred structure. Any ideas? How about:

Boat Make/Model
Year
Engines
Boat Name
Location

When I was a moderator on SRO Jim, I had put up a sticky that encouraged people to do just what you are suggesting by putting up a sticky of your own. It didn't work too well from my experinece. Another choice would be some additional verbage added where people are asked to put their Signature when they register or change their profile. If that verbage says they should include their boat information, that might work better.

Dave
 
admin said:
I cleaned a few hundred names out of it. i always knew they were there but didn't realise people looked at them :huh: I will try to keep a closer eye on spambot registrations. There are a lot of measures in place here to thwart this stuff but if every forum was able to filter out everything we wouldn't need moderators. If everybody is keeping an eye out for bad posts and alerts me or a moderator about them they should get deleted pretty quick. Don't reply to spam posts because all it does is bring it back to the top which is what the spammers want.

You're doing a good job. :thumbsup:
 
Many dirty websites remain at the end of the memberlist. You have a lot of deleting to do. If that is anything like spam email youve got your work cut out for you.
:smt018
 
tsherrytb
mreneees
ialiceim
chardgraveif
leleanortb
hburgessng
rkochalkajn
Olinda9
Shela4
Incsham
Nelsonn

Hello Jim

Just a couple of names from members that should be deleted.

I still think that ask relevant info when register is needed.

Peter
 
It is a lot like spam. Adding fields for registration won't help as those will not affect the login scheme that forum software like we have uses. Most forums do not allow access to the memberlist so those spam members can sit there harmlessly as nobody can see them. Maybe that would be the easiest solution. There has to be a better way to spend time than combing through 4 years of members :grin: :smt101
 
Oh, and I moved this to the holding tank so everybody else doesn't have to keep reading about how we have an x-rated memberlist while they are looking for sea ray info. You can still post to this topic if you have any more members to add to the list.
 
I'm a new member, and I wasn't aware of this problem. After reading this thread, I was surprised by the effort people go through, to get hits on pages. If I may, I would like to propose that volunteers go through the memberlist by letter (each volunteer takes one letter), and reports the members to be erased to this thread.
:smt024 I sing up right now - I'll go through the a's...
 

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