If there's one thing you can be sure of running a forum, is that every johnny spammer will zero in on you if they think they can dump a few links, promote themselves to death or tell you repeatedly about Nike Trainers or MP3 players
So we have to some pretty good spam defences, which can be a pain, making people fill in annoying capthas and answering daft questions, and some great Moderators who work tirelessly behind the scenes
One of our defences is something called
Stop Forum Spam, which is a database that collects the email address and IP address of anyone caught spamming any of their member forum networks (which we are). They literally stop hundreds of spammers and lazy marketeers every day.
Normally we send a standard response, you've been blacklisted, so please contact stop forum spam to be removed.
But sometimes, someone won't just take no for an answer....
After a few exchanges, here's the final two...
Hello Natalie
As explained in the past, we use Stop Forum Spam to block any registrations that have been flagged as spam by other forums from around the world. This is a free forum, with a genuine business community, which makes us the target of spam and people just seeking self promotion, so we have to have some good defences in place to protect our members. Stop Forum Spam may not be perfect, but it is the best thing that is currently available and if you have any particular concerns, then you need to liaise directly with them.
The reality is according to our forum logs, the majority of the spammers of the forum originate from India and China. Why that is I don
