The Wholesale Forums

[Tango34uk]

Maybe its time, to stop the Spam sellers, by making a small charge say £0.50 via paypal just to become a member of the forum?

[MDL]

Do you think this would really stop them???

[mazz_y2k]

I dont think 50p will stop anyone.

Thats the only problem you have when you have a forum like this open to anyone.

Maybe a more thorough background business/address check may be a more full proof way of stopping people, but then you will probably get fake addresses being entered.

Im sure the administrators are doing their best to keep out the non wanted members!

[Tango34uk]

I don't know, most of the spam sites based in the Far East, would rather not pay £0.50 and have to submit there paypal details (which most dont have!) and then may decide to move onto some other site?

[MustHaveMobiles]

Spam is an ongoing issue on all forums, it is notoriously hard to stop the manual spammers which you are seeing now as the automated signups are filtered pretty well.

The best methods to deal with these is via the community, as soon as a post is made it needs to be flagged to the mods/admin and a simple reply that states they are scammers will hopefully stop the foolish from enetering into a deal with them.

We pretty much negate these posts very quickly.

Personally I have never seen a paid membership system work on a forum like the format we operate in, plus the administration side of things can become a nightmare. As a community we can all set about dealing with the issues and protecting our forum.

[electronic_spec]

Spam will always be there no matter what you try and do to stop it! people will always find away round it! 50p won't do anything either will it to be fair! just loose change

[D M]

You'd loose 99% of new members. They'd see 50p to join and think 'they're having a laugh' and bugger off.

[bestgames]

We should be able to vote spam off so say if 20 people vote spam then the thread will go

[electronic_spec]

Well jus a few minutes a go some guy tried to spam the forum and was removed within 15minutes so I do not think it is a major issue within this forum

[pablow123]

Yes agreed spammers don't last too long here.