PharmaPorno People's Posts Precipitating?

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PharmaPorno People's Posts Precipitating?

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I noticed that there are now 10 replies to Neu's "Sorry about being gone" post on the home page.
Apart from several pleas from a recently reinstated member, these appear to be all hawking "something."

Is this a harbinger? Can the spambots (word?) get through to the regular forums as was done to such annoyance back in late '06 into early '07?
Chad - this onerous onslaught occurred before you were a member. GTSSportCoupe and myself were deleting dozens of these posts daily at one point, and we gained at least 500 new "members" during this time.
Can they not be removed/prevented from posting on the Home page? Maybe just remove the ability to post Comments to your notices there?
Worth pursuing.
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Post by Neu »

oh woops. No, I forgot to turn comments off. Crap. Yeh, it's cutenews php that I use for the php on the home page, and no, it isn't linked to the forums at all. There isn't a way for spam bots to get through the forums.
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Post by ARCHINSTL »

Thanks - I was worried we'd have to endure that again.
So - you'll eliminate the Comments section on that page? I was also afraid that a prospective member might click on them and be put off about joining.
Tom M.
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"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' Let us go and make our visit."
T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Now and then we had a hope that, if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
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