Forum Registration Changes

[assa_admin]

As you may have noticed, we've been dealing with a protracted series of spam attacks on the forums, and have employed all the usual methods to prevent disruption, short of means that would be an inconvenience or delay to new members' access to these boards.

This weekend we experienced a fairly intense denial of service attack from spammers on G-Mail claiming to be new members from places like Croatia, Serbia, the Azores, etc. that tied up a lot of our time flushing this trash down the cyber-sewers and off of our forums.

As these fools all took the time to sign up, get a confirmation email and respond to that, and then manually register with visual recognition completion, we've concluded these idiots have way too much time on their hands for us to be able to block them promptly and effectively while they are able to self-register.

Solution: All new membership applications will have to wait a day for ADMIN permission to confirm membership and be allowed to post on our forums. Trolls will be stopped from posting and stopped from becoming registered members until we check them out.

This will inconvenience new potential members who discover the forums and want to post their pithy comments immediately. Hopefully all legitimate potential new members will have the patience to wait one day for their application to the forums to be accepted. Since there is no charge for Forums membership, we're hopeful people will not go off in a huff if we need to check them out before letting them join the conversation.

If we allowed the trolls to continue to have immediate access, we'd soon be shutting these forums down in favor of a paid-members-only access system, which nobody really wants to do. Tough enough to get paid ASSA Memberships, without having to double down on paid forums entrance as well.

We've made the change tonight, with immediate effect. Any newbies wanting to chat on our forums will have to request access and wait for admin to check them out before they get to step foot on our boards. Good guys, we apologize for the delay in welcoming you to the forums. Spammers and trolls, if you are disappointed because you can't continue to screw with us, gee, that's just tough.

[assa_admin]

UPDATE:

Even with all the controls we've imposed, this week we had two drug and other trash spammers get past us and post all over the forums ads for their garbage. This always happens in the middle of the night, so there has been a few hours lag in our response to these idiots, and we apologize to anyone who had their forum experience last night ruined by this latest invasion. Can't say it willnever happen again, but we are doing our best to catch and flush these posts as quickly as possible.

Another FYI:

If some of you have been trying to get access unsuccessfully, please bear in mind we are rejecting activation of accounts with email addresses in some countries as a matter of course, so if your email ends in .ru, .cro, .ser, etc. you will not be able to activate a membership here. Also IP addresses like "igotgooddrugs.com, russianbridesforsale.ru, letmejumpyourcyberbones.edu" or names that are just random letters in a bunch, will also NOT be activated when submitted.

Anybody who applies using a username that at least seems to relate to what we do here will get activated overnight, but if the first post after activation is yet more spam, or solicitation for products we don't approve, then that newbie member will be a memory in a short-short.

So, in summary if you get activated because your username of "Shooter123" or email of "ShotgunSlugFan@guns.com" and you start off tryng to push cyalis or Canadian meds, etc. you will be gone in 60 seconds. This is an invitation to all such folks to quit wasting their time and ours.