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dannys95
01-22-2009, 09:39 PM
Arn; is there a way everytime someone will pm; post or write anything here; that what they wrote goes though some sort of check up; and if certain words that are not supposed to be written the message is not posted? I have reported like 5 posts; and have received like 2 pms. All of someone selling "cheap Viagra". So can this be done? Thanks.
istopmotion
01-22-2009, 09:49 PM
The guy who was (most likely) PMing you just made a thread about this and the thread was deleted and to my knowledge, he was banned.
I don't think you'll have to worry about that guy again, but I don't know about someone checking PMs. That'd be too time consuming and probably unnecessary. It'd be nice to prevent spam and advertising, though, but I think it'd just be to tough to keep up with.
dannys95
01-22-2009, 09:52 PM
There are always people coming doing this. I say have a generic list; with no-no words. A filter in other words. If ur message has one of the words on that list it is not posted.
istopmotion
01-22-2009, 10:32 PM
There are always people coming doing this. I say have a generic list; with no-no words. A filter in other words. If ur message has one of the words on that list it is not posted.
Hmm... I have never had a problem with this. I thought this was pretty rare. o_O
Fazzy
01-23-2009, 12:04 AM
Heh, I've never gotten one of these messages... I want one..
Zincous
01-23-2009, 03:52 AM
I just got that viagra one earlier that danny was talking about.
It was my first time being spammed here! lol :)
For the "no-no words list" I don't think it'd work because depending on what words this list had exactly, I'm sure there are some cases where they could legitimately be used. Like if viagra is one of the words, to so those kind of spams....then I couldn't have made this post. But I'm not spamming or using it inappropriately either. :D:p;)
rootbeersoup
01-23-2009, 04:53 PM
It would go from PM to just M
Let's not have a Chinese internet
dannys95
01-23-2009, 08:41 PM
It would go from PM to just M
Let's not have a Chinese internet
i dont mean not having "private" part. if u post or sent something with the word "viagra" for example; the filter would stop it and notify u that the message was not sent.
applesauce25r624
01-24-2009, 02:22 PM
i dont mean not having "private" part. if u post or sent something with the word "viagra" for example; the filter would stop it and notify u that the message was not sent.
filters are an outstanding idea !
Freegoo
01-25-2009, 03:48 PM
Might be difficult to build an effective filter list as the spammers resort to misspellings and stuff (ie v1agra, v.iagra, etc). You build a big enough list to handle those, and pretty soon perfectly innocent PM's are being blocked.
dannys95
01-25-2009, 06:13 PM
Might be difficult to build an effective filter list as the spammers resort to misspellings and stuff (ie v1agra, v.iagra, etc). You build a big enough list to handle those, and pretty soon perfectly innocent PM's are being blocked.
well im pretty sure an innocent pm would not include the word viagra. in imo anyway.
rootbeersoup
01-26-2009, 03:12 AM
well im pretty sure an innocent pm would not include the word viagra. in imo anyway.
What? You've never had girl scouts come to your door and try to sell you Viagra? Totally innocent!!
dannys95
01-26-2009, 03:24 AM
What? You've never had girl scouts come to your door and try to sell you Viagra? Totally innocent!!
LMAO!! But seriously; I think it's a good idea. Will keep spammers away.
wouldn't a captcha work just fine to filter out the bots that spam
like the one on the main page, where you have to type "toast" before you can submit
do you know how easy it is to bypass \/iagra Filters
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