Personally I am getting tired of seeing all those "hello" spam ads every time I check my mail!

i report every one of those... it is a pain...

I agree surely someone can do something about all those hello spams. Its annoying kinda spoils the fun if u know what I mean

Just got another hello spam 2 in the same evening very annoying

Whatever the bot that sends the "hello" messages is doing appears to be related to us actually posting on the boards. I won't get one for weeks but as soon as I comment on a thread, like I'm doing now, I will receive a spam message in short order. Sometimes within minutes of posting, other times it takes a little longer.

As I have no clue or experience how to manage a web site I cannot comment on how much effort in coding would be required to prevent us from receiving the messages. I've seen others complain about the messages and how someone should do something about them. Other than being annoying and disappointing because they're not real messages, they are just a nuisance and I report them and delete the message. Yes it would be nice to not see them at all or at least have a single step to report the sender and delete the message but it isn't a big deal, imo.

I'm looking into how I can pull mail from JC and perhaps manage it in a normal email client. Sad I know and will likely not get passed the research phase as logging in to JC normally leads to other activities

It's almost kind of nice to be noticed when I arrive and post, even if it is just a bot

FUCKING ANNOYING!!!

They all seem like idiots to me. You think at least one of them would say something other than hello if they wanted to fool someone. It's not a big deal to delete them, often they are only message I get.

Once more, with feeling....

As has been said many times now, we're aware of the problem, and are just as bothered by it as all of you are (probably more...if you think I enjoy taking hours of my own time every week or so to go through, ban literally hundreds of these spam accounts, and send a list of them to the site owner, you must think I have a very strange idea of "fun." )

At last report from the site owner, all of the back-end attempts that he's made to stop them have, at best, worked briefly, with the spambots quickly finding ways around them, putting us back at square one. With the tools currently in place for the site code, the only remaining option would be pretty nuclear, and would essentially prevent most new member registration, which is, of course, undesirable. But, it's a limitation of the site being 100% custom code written by the owner, and adding additional tools to prevent them requires modification of the code that can have a domino effect on the entire site's functionality...also undesirable.

One of the reasons for the chat's move to Discord is the availability of an option to allow sign-in to the site using a Discord account. The owner's exploring the impact that enabling it would have on the site, which would hopefully cut off most (or preferably, all) of the spambots.

Posts pointing out that these spambots exist, that their emails exist, and that their emails are spam doesn't tell us anything new, and is preaching to the choir.