Say we block a word from the title bar?

[Templarian]

Just one word. iPhone. so that users cannot create threads with the word iPhone.

If we did this it would keep a lot of spam down that, or maybe the updated vbulliten allows for something along those lines.

[npgames]

ya.. we should also block "flash" JK

[TheCanadian]

What about this thread?
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=290899

[chrisclick]

make it check too see if the user has a certain amount of posts... spammers using spam on their first post

[Templarian]

I know a LOT of forums don't allow links in users posts for the first 5 and I'm sure vbull has an option for it.

The iphone blocking word was more to get an idea of the situation.

[fasterthanlight™]

^ ya but what about the new users who have found this forum through google or something and need to post a question about something that needs to be fixed asap as opposed to finding ways to post 5 times before posting their question or whatever (which is pretty much the same as spam)

I don't think our spam problem is out of hand or that bad to warrant filtering out words like "iphone" and besides, its not like the spam is impeding your usage of the forums, right temp?

[Templarian]

True... the pr0n spam this morning and stuff isn't the best image for forum though. Think if someone click on that at work.

//edit, why hasn't that been deleted?

Can't post images or links without 5 posts would probably be best actually.