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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Spam and Forum Changes

I've been deleting a couple of nasty porn spam posts from the forums about once a day, and I'm tired of it. I had changed the permissions so that only registered users could post, so the spammers just registered and kept posting.

So now, I've made it so that only Moderators can post to the forums. "But," you say, "I'm not a moderator! How am I going to post?"

Simple. Go make yourself a moderator. I made the Moderators group "open", so you can join it by logging into the forums, and going to the usergroups page. Choose to join Moderators, and you should be good.

Now, this gives you a little extra power with regard to what you can do on the forums, but our community is tight enough that I trust you guys. Any abuses will cause me to change my mind. And if the freaking spammers join the Moderators group to continue to post, well, I'll have to take more drastic action.

Let me know if you have any questions.