As some of you have seen (unluckily I suppose) DrMaxwell had his account hijacked and had begun posting research and gore on the forum. These hijacks have been getting frequent in the last few months, it seems every month or two someone goes around hijacking accounts. During these events administrators or moderators have not been around to ban these users quickly enough to prevent spamming, I however do not know if they have been DDoS'd or they are just busy when this happens though.
One of the main problems is having the forum user's account hijacked though despite the images, and it's very annoying being banned for something you did not intentionally do.
In the beginning I thought this was something that would easily pass and just be a one time deal but it seems that this may be going on for a while, so while I was hiding from the disgusting images I was thinking about ways to prevent these further attacks.
More Admins/Moderators
I know that there are 2 Moderators and 1 Admin, but it seems that there are not enough around when stuff like this happens so I just ask if there is any possible way we could get more Admins on or if we could give Moderators banning rights. I don't think however that members of our community should be given such rights as they could be abusive in the wrong or stupid hands.
Topic Limit
One idea I had was due to the spam topics on the Drama and Off Topic sections, I think that there should be some sort of Topic Limit implemented. Say for example people can only post a certain number of topics within say 24 hours, after that they may begin to post again. Im not sure if it is possible but it would be a nice anti-spam idea.
Lock Your threads
If your thread is a huge target for spammers I suggest you lock them until the spammers have been banned. ShadowsFear made a smart choice (even if creativity wasn't spammed it was a good idea) Locking your topics keeps spammers out and will shield it and also leaving less cleanup for admins.
Find this hijacker(s) and put an end to it.
I may not know much about proxies and IP addresses and whatnot but I think we should try to figure out who keeps doing this to the forums. One of my theories is that it's an old forum member trying to get "Revenge" on badspot or the forums. Although there is not much I can go off of I did find one clue that ties all the other past hijackings together:
On each unfortunate user's profile, the signature has been changed to say "The storm is coming"
If you have any other theories on who might be doing this pool them together here and maybe we can get an idea of who's doing this.
Thanks for reading.
