He is back again... TONS of spamFollow

Who he?

Oh god. Not again. The funny part, he makes like 10 posts, BUT THE ALL SAY EXACTALY THE SAME THING WORD FOR WORD! How can we solve this? Its gonna be impossible. Find thier user info, at least do somthing

Drastic Solution: Simply stop alowing all NEW registrations with @hotmail.com @yahoo.com or any other free accounts. I'm sure they are using free accounts to make them.

Less drastic, but short term: Stop all user names that start with his signature wzm or whatever.

I use two also most times, however I get no spam from sites. Most sites now will keep your email private...

Edit: Also, and I don't know if this would even be possible, but it shouldn't effect people currently signed up.

Edit 2: Come to think of it, its actually been MONTHS since I got any spam period. On any of my accounts.

Edited, Wed Jul 13 01:31:19 2005 by Tomec

Edited, Wed Jul 13 02:16:02 2005 by Tomec

I did say DRASTIC solution, I didn't say it was perfect.

Propbably his scheme is working and people are buying gold through his spammage or else he wouldnt repost this crap.
Can you maybe measure in a way who clicks on those gold selling links? And ban them too?
BAN EM ALL Mwhahahahahaha!
Sorry but it's really sad to see a good forum turn into a hotmail account inbox.

Thinken your skin, it's not the end of the world when someone spams a forum.

Take solice that it takes me the click of one button to delete all their posts, and the click of one more if I choose to IP ban them as well. Going over the logs for the offending IPs it takes him/her/it far more of their time than it does of mine.

He's posting from a variety of open proxies, nothing I can do really - there are thousands of those around the 'net. I've banned his main box tho. I've made it so he can't link his site, and he still takes the time to set up a new email account, a new allakhazam account, logging into it, and editing the posts (to avoid the recent posts filter). And then I click one button and "poof", it's gone.

Not to mention he's advertizing to a hostile audience.

A warning tho, that anyone responding to his posts will get rated down with *extreme* prejudice.

I still say if sites had the money and put it in their TOS they could take legal action... Put (in legalese) something like "Repeated abuses could cause legal action to be taken against you."
First lawsuit, BOOM, they would stop REAL quick I bet. Of course, the money and issues with other countries and such...

Edit: clarified soemthing

Edited, Wed Jul 13 09:33:35 2005 by Tomec

It's been a while since I've signed up but does Allakhazam not require you to input the security code most websites have now? Some picture with skewed letters that a program couldn't read?

If not I wonder how hard it would be to implement one of those.

Require them to input a definition of a difficult word from the english language, he doesn't speak english, he speaks engrish.

EG:

Antidisestablishmentarianism (SP)?

I bet he cant give a definition on that!

Or, require the user for registration to go to a page such as
"www.allakhazam.com/freedomofuse"

That states the TOS. Chinese browsers filter webpages with the words "freedom" and "human rights", Even "democracy"

According to what was said earlier, he lives in mainland china.

Yea I like the random number box idea.

Or even put a 1 day waiting period before they can post anything.

While this would just have them making lots of accounts and having them in reserve it would possiably **** them off more when the accounts got banned.