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Mage Wars => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mestrahd on November 07, 2012, 07:11:09 PM

Title: Is there a way to ignore Off-Topic?
Post by: Mestrahd on November 07, 2012, 07:11:09 PM

It seems this is the folder of choice for spammers and it's flooding my Recent list with crap. Is there some way to just ignore this entire sub-forum by checkbox or something?

Thanks

Title: Re: Is there a way to ignore Off-Topic?
Post by: Hedge on November 07, 2012, 09:44:30 PM

I have a better Idea. but first a little information. About a week ago the member count for this forum was just over 220. It has now balloned to over 700. While I would like to think that most of those are people interested in the game I know that it is foolishness to think as such.

Anyone that hasn't logged in for over a week since thier screen name was made and have 3 or more consonants in a row in thier screen name needs to be deleted and the IP's Banned.

This forum is slow enough as is. Spambots or Spamsapians will just slow it down even more.



Hedge

Title: Re: Is there a way to ignore Off-Topic?
Post by: Nihilistiskism on November 07, 2012, 11:36:15 PM

This board is tortuously slow, for the most part, but that has nothing do do with the content within the threads. Threads sit there until you ping the server for them. New threads don't slow down the system. Not how it works.

And...yes...the spambots are rampant. Something could be done about that...

-nihil

Title: Re: Is there a way to ignore Off-Topic?
Post by: Shad0w on November 08, 2012, 08:41:15 PM

Well until my account is fixed I can sit back and watch it happen. :dry: sorry ALL