they are. and the ones here are especially annoying and creative. We had to inplement the probie status after a spam attack where someone(s) posted dozens of spam and porn messages. We then had to take away post editing ability because after we'd clear a probie message, they'd edit it to put in their spam junk. we had to take away sigs because they tried using sigs to get their links and messages out there. We had to lock away private and visitor messages because they, being locked out of posting, decided to deluge some forum members with spam pm's.
we don't like doing this. It takes time and effort and I know it's a pain for new members to not be able to post...but it's the spammers. They're the ones that make a half to a dozen posts a day trying to get their junk out there that are the reason we've had to do it.
And i know more and more forums or mailing lists that are doing the same thing. Locking down new members due to spammers. As the economy gets worse, they get more vicious. Most of those 'make money from home' schemes are people being signed up to blast mailing lists or forums or the such with spam.
we don't like doing this. It takes time and effort and I know it's a pain for new members to not be able to post...but it's the spammers. They're the ones that make a half to a dozen posts a day trying to get their junk out there that are the reason we've had to do it.
And i know more and more forums or mailing lists that are doing the same thing. Locking down new members due to spammers. As the economy gets worse, they get more vicious. Most of those 'make money from home' schemes are people being signed up to blast mailing lists or forums or the such with spam.
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