Due to the Spam that has been recently occuring.....
Could we set up something that forced people to post their first post in the newcomers thread, thus avoiding them posting in random games and bringing them back to life.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that this is known about by you Mods...but...I thought newcomers were limited to where their first post had to be, but maybe forcing a persons first post to only be in 1 thread, you could limit them from dredging the swamp with an old thread and bringing it back to the surface.
In addition, the following newcomers are probably spambots:
shereecr4 - personal website is link to porn.
In fact, I found that if you go to the Newcomers adventurers party:
http://www.goblinsforum.com/memberlist. ... memberlist
You can see all the personal website links..majority of which are porn.
So, in short my 1 suggestion becomes a few suggestions.
1. Limit a newcomers initial post to "the newcomers Check-in!", potentially by "prompting" them in a welcome message to go "check-in" at said location. This would limit all spam to only 1 location, instead of anywhere they want.
2. Disallow newcomers to post "personal website" until after they've posted at least 5 times. This would eliminate porn websites and other such spam or virus sites from being in a profile as most spambots wouldn't take that much time to make spam..cause spam is all about the "quick release" if you will.
3. Develop a list of websites that spambots are using as their "personal websites" ex: latin.porndairy.in and either auto-ban, auto-delete, or auto-deny anyone attempting to set website as their own. (Though I would think that Suggestion 2 would eliminate suggestion 3 from needing to happen.)
4. Create an additional party that's right beneath the newcomers adventurers party called something like "cannon-fodder" which "with warning" creates a temporary group that is purged after a set time period (say 1 week). Then, set entry into the newcomers party at say, 5 posts. (I realize that there are several lurkers on this forum, but I'm sure that they could be grandfathered into this system, as well as potentially being willing to post a few times in order to be allowed to stay.)
Thank you for hearing me out...thanks bye.