Probably that last spammer of this morning!

 

What's up with that spam crap anyway? Everytime I check in it seems I see at least one bogus post

 

Well, it's not easy to control. These spammers create new e-mails left and right and they sign up and do their postings. It's not only here... On my gaming forum we have the same problem. I believe we were able to control some of it by restricting access based on IP addressess but there is not just one guy out there doing this. It is a strategy used by thousands all with different and unique IP's.

 

Well A big HELLO to all 10.000 of you , from the Rainy Island Kingdom of England!!

 

10,000 we are, great achievement!
Bravo JeepPatriot.com
This website deserves the honor for its rapid growth. Congrats to us all!

 

Finding 10,000 people that all have one thing like the Patriot in common is harder to do than you think.

Congrats everyone. And congrats to Jeep for making a vehicle that has generated this following.

 

How about active members.......?
There are only 1920 -/+ members with 5 posts or more.
There are 600 -/+ recorded members with 5 to 10 posts. Granted several of those are new members from today or yesterday.
There are 1500 -/+ members with fewer than 100 posts.
There are 270 -/+ members with 101 to 999 posts.
There are 24 members with 1000 or more posts. including the dreaded e-bay bot.

There's one guy who just won't shut up.

 

Congratulations. Those numbers, above, are about right for many forums. At the Nest we clean out after a year any non-posting members so our percentages are higher while our membership appears smaller. Some rejoin many do not.

 

Mysterious Member 10k

 

it's probably a spammer! so before we go and give him his trip for two to Aruba all expenses paid...we should verify his identity!

 

I wonder how many forums that text queen belongs to?

 

As the champion would say: OMG IDK

HA!

 

Keep reporting spammers and I'll keep banning them and their IP addresses. Unfortunately, that's the best we can do.

 

spammers are a challenge on any forum, unfortunately they keep thinking that somebody is stupid enough to fall for their list of one million cell phones for $5.00 or something lol

I just realized that I'm edging in on 1000 posts here too! And I don't even have a Patriot!

 

Joined Last Week

Hi,
I joined last week when I was looking for information regarding a mod I was planning on doing. (The info I found was a great help. Thanks!) Anyhow, I manage the website for the company I work for, and we've considered creating a forum. How big of a problem is spam? What percentage of traffic on this forum is spam? I haven't seen much during my time here compared to some other forums I use. What service do you use to host this forum?

 

Hi,
I joined last week when I was looking for information regarding a mod I was planning on doing. (The info I found was a great help. Thanks!) Anyhow, I manage the website for the company I work for, and we've considered creating a forum. How big of a problem is spam? What percentage of traffic on this forum is spam? I haven't seen much during my time here compared to some other forums I use. What service do you use to host this forum?

Spam isn't a huge issue here because we're still relatively small (as far as forums go). Some of the larger forums spend a nice chunk of money on software designed to eliminate spammers but at our level, I dont think it would be very cost effective.

 

I would say that it is always the same type of spam, correct? And maybe once every two weeks perhaps? So no... not really a big issue to simply just to handle "manually" for now.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

It`s nice to be part of a 10,000 Patriot fan crowd. Congrats all and here`s a BIG GROUPENHUG :huddle: :beerchug: :banana:

 

Let's not undermine this accomplishment...

while we have a lot of infrequent posters, so does most every automotive forum. I've been a member of another forum since 2002 and they've just reached 24,000 members!