I wonder where he's at ... hasn't been on in over a month! Anyone here know him personally that might have some news?

 

I think I have his number somewhere. I really should call although I swear he mentioned a few months ago that he was going to be MIA for a while...

 

Hey Gary, can you shoot me his number in a PM? He has my valve cover that he was supposed to powdercoat for me and send to me for my new engine. I need to get in touch with him so I can get it ASAP.... Thanks bro,

Jeff

 

I dont know why he hasn't been on here in a while, but he's been working rougly 60 hours a week for the past month or so at a new job, so that might have something to do with it. Jeff, last I heard, he was in the process of getting a new powder coating machine and oven built. If Gary doesn't have his number PM me and I'll send it to you.

 

Well optimus prime departed in the movie so now it's roddimus' turn. LOL!

J/K!!!

 

I heard from Matty today. He'e been working some wild and crazy hours with not much time for anything else.
Kfox, he had to buy a new spray gun for the powdercoating, check your PMs.

 

Sweet, hopefully i can get in touch with him so I can get that thing mailed up to me. Can you PM me his #? I have his AIM and e-mail but he's never on. Thanks man.

Jeff

 

Hey guys if there's every anything admin-wise that you need, and you cannot reach Roddimus, let me know at admin@mazda3club.com. Or in the case of some forums (like this one) you can use the "report post" button to get to me too.

 

we REALLY need to make some kind of change to stop this spamming !

 

Well I just went through this forum and did a fast-pass cleanup, so it should be somewhat better. Also set myself up so that when anyone uses the "report post" button it comes to me at work and I can typically have the spam thread gone pretty quickly if I know about it.

Are there other forums on the site here that get spammed a lot?

 

I delete the threads all time...

but the spammers keep coming back and reposting.....

I've banned like crazy and it didnt do any good....

we really need some kind of feature where they either have to be a member for a month or so or a minimum number of posts before they can drop links...this would prevent a lot of spammers...Ryan said we dont have the option, but I know some versions of vbulletin do, so we should be able to incorporate that somehow

 

Well we cannot do it across the whole site because then legitimate new members couldn't post. But what I can do is set up certain forums (such as this one) to not allow posts until members have "X" number of posts. Most spammers are one or two post wonders, so this may well take care of the bulk of the problem.

Also, we can require registrants to email verify, which eliminates bots from registering. Means a real person has to complete the reg process.

EDIT: Because it seems spambots are hitting this specific forum, I just turned on email verification for new registrants. This should head some of 'em off.

 

I've been monitoring this closely since my post above and it seems as though the number of spammers has dropped off significantly. True?

 

Agreed! By the way why are we talking about spam in the where's Matt thread?

 

Some what...there are still people spamming, they are just people registering now , rather than bots. They are also posting multiple threads rather than one spam and leave....