Lets all welcome
DaiRees, mjb and
teamster1975...
As a result, SPAM should now pretty much stop.
There is a downside though. Any new user who has less than 5 posts will have ALL posts placed in a "queue". These posts wont show up to everyone else apart from the Mods and Admins until there are at least 5 approved posts.
This means that anyone jumping onto the forums, spamming, then leaving, will see no posts. Anyone else wont notice a thing. New users will be advised they have to wait until their posts have been approved (should never take too long!).
There is a small downside though. This change is SYSTEM wide. That means EVERY forum has this restriction. Yeah, this means the Welcome forum. I'm working on a patch to fix this - but just now - I'm glad to cut down on the crap hitting this place.
On a side note - As with any site - 406oc.co.uk takes a dim view of anyone potentially damaging the forum, be it through hacking/cracking, abuse, or whatnot. Please remember that both Admins AND Mods have the ability to use the ban-hammer.
Although only one user has been banned from the forums, I'd like to remind everyone that I take a great pride in this place - as do the regular users, and i'm sure everyone is passionate about this site. Please. Play nice!
Nick
Mods - Report in! I'll give you guys a heads up on how to use the new fangled system
Will be good to have a nice spam-free forum at last. Long live the oc! 
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