Tagboard being spammed?

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:37 am

Just wonder if anyone else is getting spam from porn and poker places all of a sudden on their comic's tag boards. Mine's from tag-board.org (no ads or popups whoooo) and the last two days I've gotten six ads.

I'm not asking CG to do anything about it - it's not their responsibility. Next spam I get I'm going to just edit the post and make the poster look silly.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:45 am

I've had them now for a few months, but yeah, the last two weeks they've come thick and fast. I've just been deleting them and refusing to awknowledge their presence.

Mind you...I'm also about to get the bloke who looks after the mechanics behind the site to block them the moment I get back in touch too.

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:15 am

Nope, just the usual annoying ads.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:42 am

i got rid of mine because it was throwing up popups

Rock_dash · Post by **Rock_dash** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:36 am

rkolter wrote:Just wonder if anyone else is getting spam from porn and poker places all of a sudden on their comic's tag boards. Mine's from tag-board.org (no ads or popups whoooo) and the last two days I've gotten six ads.

I'm not asking CG to do anything about it - it's not their responsibility. Next spam I get I'm going to just edit the post and make the poster look silly.

Same here. I should switch over to tagboard.org. Even if it doesn't do anything about the spam flooding, at least the popup ads will be gone.

Komiyan · Post by **Komiyan** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:39 am

I got a C-Box and it's been ace. No spam, no pop-ups, and it looks nicer than a tagboard by a mile..

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:03 pm

I have a saybox, occasional ad but I've yet to have spammers, except for that one time when teammayhem and mcduffies...

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:51 pm

I used to get a lot of spam on my blog until I turned on image recognition thingie.

Bekka · Post by **Bekka** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:26 am

I use Cbox and it's great. I can delete posts, ban user IPs - and what's even better my name (as an admin) displays in red - so that annoying guy in China can no longer pretend to be me greeting people in bad English! He wasn't even rude or anything, but if anyone posted a compliment he'd answer politely to thank him in broken English signing in as Gianna. So annoying.

EvilChihuahua · Post by **EvilChihuahua** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:25 am

Komiyan wrote:I got a C-Box and it's been ace. No spam, no pop-ups, and it looks nicer than a tagboard by a mile..

Yeah, it says on the site that there're text ads, but I haven't seen any yet... Just a bunch of people telling me how awesome my comic is.

Kirb · Post by **Kirb** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:07 am

C-Box, eh. I'll look into that.

BUT IF I GET ADS HEADS WILL ROLL.

Cope's specifically.

Des · Post by **Des** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:25 am

I've been using my own PHP tagboard (DawgTag... oo here's a link! http://dawgiestyle.com/2005/09/21/dawg-tag-14-released )
It takes a little html/ftp knowledge, but having hosting it myself its really hard to bots to find it and spam it. Then again, my webcomic isn't connected with any rings or webcomic hosting type things.

NotQuiteInsane · Post by **NotQuiteInsane** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:42 am

I've got a half-done Tagboard on the work list for my "Webgadgets" project (I'll bet $5 someone's already taken that name). I've almost finished the poll script - just need to finish the admin stuff.
Some of the planned features include Captcha ("what are the letters in this image/soundclip") checking and post editing/deletion/auto-expiring. More news to come later

DJMayhem · Post by **DJMayhem** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:56 pm

my tagboard's fine. locally hosted

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