The forum will be rebuilt this afternoon for the first time in 4 and 1/2 years. One of the recent spam mods has nackered up quick reply so I think its about time it was done.

Expect some possible wierd behaviours between 13:00 and 16:00.

update underway

all mods including quick reply and birthdays have been temporarily disabled

I had noticed quick reply had gone

test quick reply

right I think everything is working again

ahhhhhh, quick replies without a silly waiting time and preview screen, much better! Good work Petey

yep that was driving me crazy

though still not found a decent solution to spam

How about only letting somebody post a link after they posted more than 1 message before, or stop people from creating new threads until they have posted a certain number of messages.
I was reading about a spam mod that hides certain fields on the registration form (such as website or signature) so they are still on the form but you cant see them, then if somebody enters data into them, which only a bot would do, it blocks them.

yeh I was thinking of something similar for new people signing up however I haven't found a mod that does that.

thanks will install some of them later

installed the registration mod, hopefully it will cut down on the spam.

nackered quick reply again

still deleting loads, like a couple each day

yeh same here its a fucking nusence

yeah man I've deleted like 30 in the last week

I don't want to go installing anti-spam mods that will put barriers in the way for us posting - like that stupid 5second delay we had on the quick reply before.

The situation is getting a bit out of hand and almost every time I visit the forum there is spam to delete.

This not only looks bad but also diminishes the good reputation of the forum. I'm sure most people do not want to see adverts for drugs and porn almost every time they come to the forum.

Therefore I have set registration to be moderated by administers (either myself or Jonnie). This means that when a user registers their account must be enabled by an administrator before they can post.

This will be a temporary arrangement until I can sort out the spam mods and as we do not get that many new members sign up I hope it doesn't cause too much pain.

The ImAFish forum gets hundreds of hits per week with people reading our unique and entertaining content and I apologise for all the annoying spam that has been plaguing the forum.

thats a good idea, either of you will be online everyday so its not as though it will bother anyone who actually wants to post something important

all the spam users (those with 0 posts) have been deleted