And how many appear on a daily basis? Five, ten? Why is it so difficult to delete them?
Again, you're just missing the point. It's not so much difficult to delete them as it is somewhat pointless.
Exactly. There are suppose to be in place fail-safes so they cannot be created in the first place. Click a check box open a drop down menu, select delete, hit the go button. It's practically that easy. The real issue here is we should have to do it.
Our main problem, is the people who install these fail-safes are inactive. So no one gets around to making sure they are there, thus we have to delete them ourselves.
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While i find the bot links to lead to some very interesting pictures from a scientific standpoint, perhaps deleting them isn't the best idea. If by deleting them you accelerate their appearance rate, it might be a good idea to make a spam section where one couldn't view them and leave them there.
More often than not, links the bots give contain viruses.
If it is a porn bot, which it seems most are, leaving them there is not an option as it violates Forum Policy, No posting of pornographic images. We have young users here, not just adults.
Deleting bots, to the best of my knowledge has no impact on their frequency. They are a program. A program that creates x amount of threads and or posts. It is dictated by the number the creator sets, not the number moderators delete.
Maybe you should consider deleting pointless and utterly stupid real threads. Their number have arisen lately as well oO
That is generally what the spam section is for. It meant to contain random, non sensical and often pointless gibberjabber.
Although if you log out and click "Register", you will find that we do have image verification on this site
Supposedly, I've heard that's one of the simplest things for bots to bypass. Handlebar mustache smiley.
Yes. It's not that great of a fail-safe.
We would be better off restricting the posting of URLs and IMGs to the tenth post. Bots don't tend to make much more than 5 posts before they become void.
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The restriction of posting URLs and Images to say the 10 post is doable, at least that is my understanding of vbulletin, as other sites that use it have that.
The problem is, and some of you may well have guessed it, is, Largely inactive admins. While I myself do infact hold the rank of admin, in truth, I am nothing more than a glorified Moderator, I do not do any modifications to the site itself. That is Umaro's or Mockery's domain. Unless it is visual, then it is Jetrall's field of expertise.
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Exactly. There are suppose to be in place fail-safes so they cannot be created in the first place. Click a check box open a drop down menu, select delete, hit the go button. It's practically that easy. The real issue here is we should have to do it.
Our main problem, is the people who install these fail-safes are inactive. So no one gets around to making sure they are there, thus we have to delete them ourselves.
More often than not, links the bots give contain viruses.
If it is a porn bot, which it seems most are, leaving them there is not an option as it violates Forum Policy, No posting of pornographic images. We have young users here, not just adults.
Deleting bots, to the best of my knowledge has no impact on their frequency. They are a program. A program that creates x amount of threads and or posts. It is dictated by the number the creator sets, not the number moderators delete.
That is generally what the spam section is for. It meant to contain random, non sensical and often pointless gibberjabber.
Yes. It's not that great of a fail-safe.
We would be better off restricting the posting of URLs and IMGs to the tenth post. Bots don't tend to make much more than 5 posts before they become void.
The problem is, and some of you may well have guessed it, is, Largely inactive admins. While I myself do infact hold the rank of admin, in truth, I am nothing more than a glorified Moderator, I do not do any modifications to the site itself. That is Umaro's or Mockery's domain. Unless it is visual, then it is Jetrall's field of expertise.