Yes, but we have had enough of them. There are other trolls besides sellers and scammers anyway so we are still needed.
We have had our fair share of them. It takes seconds to correct. The problem is that they are just annoying.
I think we still have more mods than we have had spammers ever. It should be a little while before we get enough spammers that the mods can't keep up. Do some damn work you slackers! EDIT: Okay so we've had a couple of dozen then by the looks of it. Maybe it IS time to discriminate!
How annoying can it really be to delete a post and ban a user? You're essentially banning 3 billion + people from reaching the site.
It's not annoying deleting, cleaning and banning them, but they are annoying themselves. How many Chinese and Indian proper posters do you ever see on most forums from their own native country's? Yeah.
Well, if it is a legit drain on server resources it makes sense, since Ichi is hosting us for free. Otherwise I'd tell you to just do your goddamn job and be happy you have one in this economy! But your European, all you care about is taking vacation time.
Mainly security updates and some fixes to the database. It just seemed wise to update the forum to the latest version..I was thinking there might be some exploit in there given the increase in spammers that we've seen...I'm working on a solution to that too.
Is there any way you can make the "Chat" link at the top take you to the latest chat page instead of the first one?
Something others want too? If PunBB doesn't allow it and if one of the admins with FTP access emails me viewforum.php, I may write a short script to make your dreams come true.
It's OK, I've got the chat link pointing to the last page; it's a fairly straightforward change to make it skip to the last post... EDIT: Actually I've changed it again, it should take you to the newest post (new relative since you last logged in at least) in the chat thread. I have no real way of testing this properly since the last new post since I last logged in happens to be the very last post in the thread so even if that doesn't work it'll at least take you to the last page.