Banning or deleting bogus members

[mytacoma]

I've spent the last few days clearing out our members list. There has been a rash of new "members" offering videos, drugs, etc. and I am cleaning house. If I accidentally deleted you and I shouldn't have I'm sorry but if it even looks like crap it's gone.

This forum is for Toyota truck owners and lovers. Everybody else will be deleted.

[danstoy]

i'm a lover doug, so don't delete me ok. 

[mytacoma]

OK I'll let you stay. 

[HOODLUM]

OK I'll let you stay. 

We're all banned! that is all

[mytacoma]

There were 62 new "members" awaiting activation and I deleted them all. If you look through the members list you'll see quite a few that are banned. Most of this appeared to have happened in November for some reason.

[mytacoma]

To help eliminate this problem all new members must be approved by admin. effective immediatly.

[lifetrddeath]

I saw this Doug, and removed a post already... but it was posted by a "guest".  We can have non member posts?  I'm all for non member viewing, but not posting.

[mytacoma]

We changed it already. It was too much to keep up with. We have a new filter that blocks bots and checks all new members againts a list of known spammers then block them too. It has been pretty affective. No, I don't think guest can post anywhere except maybe in the shout box.