FLOOD OF NEW MEMBERS THAT ARE SPAMMERS - My apologies

[schro]

Dear SBG Members,

Over the past several months, there has been an absolute avalanche of new "members" that have signed up for the sole purpose of flooding Sly Bald Guys with spam. Personally, I have deleted more than a thousand of these would-be spammers, many based on email addresses and other information before they even make their first post. I know other mods have done their best to keep up with the crap these spammers wants to post all over SBG.

Unfortunately, it's gotten to the point that we're getting somewhere from 50-100 new spammers signing up daily. I don't have the time to personally sift through all of these spammers' information on my own to ban these clowns before they post their first spam message. So, until we figure out a way to deal with this, over the next few months you may see an increase in posts from these jerks with their spam crap. We do appreciate the messages we get from the real SBG members that report spam. Please keep it up.

Please be patient, we are working hard to maintain SBG as a great forum, free of spam.

Sincerely,
Schro

[Cave Dweller]

Ah. That may explain why my work computer got banned from the site.
I get a message saying I am a spammer every time I try to access the site with that computer.
Not that I am complaining as it removed a distraction from getting my work done.

Must be a real pain for you mods to to deal with. Thanks for all your work, gentlemen.

[schro]

Ah. That may explain why my work computer got banned from the site.
I get a message saying I am a spammer every time I try to access the site with that computer.
Not that I am complaining as it removed a distraction from getting my work done.

Must be a real pain for you mods to to deal with. Thanks for all your work, gentlemen.

For what it's worth, I was banned too. Try switching to Google Chrome (Tyler's suggestion). Worked for me.

[mrzed]

Would it be worth 'moderating' the first one or two posts of any new member? Or maybe that's too much manual work on the moderators?

I don't remember, does the new member process have a captcha mechanism?

Thanks for your work, moderators. When I do report a spam to the moderators, they seem to bump it out pretty quickly.

[bud]

hello together,
(Sorry for my english Iam not a native speaker)
as cave dweller, I also got the message to be "banned". I found this a pity as I appreciate this forum: lots of nice people who respectfully put their opinion and offer a good exchange and give a lot of information. thank you!
Simply idiotic that some contemporaries -nothing else in the bulb- to spread spam.
Thank you moderators for your work. I hope there can be a solution, that the forum can continue and run relaxed.

[wpruitt]

It's a heavy load trying to keep it down.  I echo what Schro said.  Apologies if you were banned by error. 

[baldjoeg]

Thanks Schro. I appreciate all that you and the other mods are doing to keep SBG a great website.