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Does Mobileread.com have any special security measures when new accounts are signed up for?
I was on one forum where on the sign up page you had to send a message to the admin explaining why you wanted to join up on the forum. I bet that cleared up most of the spam bots! |
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Bah, humbug!
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We have some pretty good security measures in place, but we have yet required new members to contact us personally before joining. It might reduce some of the spam, but we'd need an army of moderators to police it. We get many, many requests every day. In addition, the most problematic spammers at the moment aren't bots, but very persistent humans who don't reuse the same IP or email address twice, and these folks wouldn't hesitate for a moment to lie to us in person.
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Most of the spam messages had a phone number to call. Would it be easy to find those posts automatically and flag them? I can't remember seeing phone numbers in non-spam posts.
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Particularly if the phone number is in the thread title.
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The spam that gets through is a tiny, tiny proportion of what is attempted. There are numerous measures in place to stop it from appearing on the forums, none of which, for obvious reasons, we are going to discuss in public.
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