Anti SPAM efforts

[beta_helix]

Thanks Crashguard…
I'm actually surprised that we've only had 1 spammer thread in the forum this week, what with the all the new users that joined!

[Crashguard303]

…I hope, they are regular new users, one of them is an ex-workmate I invited ;)

[Deleted user]

Looks like another one has emerged

[Crashguard303]

If you go to "Top Evolvers this week" http://fold.it/portal/players/e_week
and look at the end of even the first page, you find some users like
"MobilePhoneDeals" and "PaulaAutoInsurance".

How about them?

[Crashguard303]

…and how about inactive Users?
How about claning up zombie data?

[beta_helix]

thanks for catching those, I removed them…

I guess we could remove all inactive Users, but they aren't really hurting anyone, right?
I think some players might be mad if they wanted to come back and their account were gone.

[Crashguard303]

That's right, they don't hurt anyone.

On the other hand, you've got the E-Mail-Adress of them, and I know this from other sites that you get an E-Mail, if you were inactive for some time (let's say a year or so).

Some accounts are only not used again, because the user forgot his password and is too lazy to retrieve it, and maybe he has already created a new one.
If zombie accounts would be deleted, you can better watch those acounts which remain, having a better overview.

Just my two cents.

regards,
Alex

[Crashguard303]

http://fold.it/portal/node/987858

[Crashguard303]

That was too fast.
Forget about this.

[Deleted user]

tastes like SPAM, must be SPAM.