Spambots! Attn: PMP Admin

[Not A Spambot]

I hang out on another (unrelated subject) board that got hit with lots of spambots, and they made you register to gain access to everything but the archives (all locked threads) and the soapbox/rants/whatever forum. It may have cut down on the spamming but it sure didn't stop it. The spambots just started registering and posting crap about online casinos, etc.; however they were fewer in number and everyone policed it pretty good, pointing out potential as well as proven spambots. It sucks that a lot of people never register, seeing nothing cool when they arrive and thus the community's growth is artificially stunted.

I'd register, but I'm awfully lazy... ;D I'm the most active guest (as far as I know, the ONLY guest poster in the past week) posting on Penetrator, Killmaster, Executioner, etc. I might bother to register if I had to, LOL, but the boards aren't very active (just me!) and it's just one more thing to put off doing in my busy schedule.

I'm a friend of Skaramine's but found this board on my own via Google... was looking for Mack Bolan info. Keep up the good work and good luck beating the spambots!

[PMP Webmaster]

Thanks for the comments! I really don't want to lock down the majority of the board to non-members (and if I required registration I might have to go so far as to approve new members), and honestly, since I visit the board several times a day it's not much work to just go around and delete the spam posts. Over the weekend, though, there were literally several spam posts an hour to the opening thread, for a good part of the weekend.

The guest postings here are the majority of our content, and I very much want to keep them. So, as long as it doesn't get too bad, we'll keep things as they are. Only time will tell.

[PMP Webmaster]

For the moment, I've just locked out this board to all but registered members. I've deleted over 40 spam threads this evening from the same poster. If you're reading this, please go play in the traffic. My readers and I would appreciate it.