Welcome to the new forums

Small question is every mod a "Planetary Moderator" or is that just a place holder rank?

We all are. Because Awesome.

Trust me, I know A lot about web spam and 95% of all forum spam done by XRumer. It's expensive and pretty smart software with buit-in OCR, lot of automation tools and scripts.

But it's not super-smart AI which can break unique captcha or registration method automatically.

PS: Forums is seriously need link marking with color and underline.

Sorry, but you are wrong. If you make simple, but unique registration/login system all spam will be stopped before somebody spend some time and make script exactly for _your_ forum.

And every change on registration/login process will break these scripts. Spammers don't get any money exactly from spam on your forum, but from really big amount of spam messages. So usually nobody will spend any time exactly on your unique anti-spam system.

5% is still a lot . But I agree. There will probably need to be some tweaking and adjustments done, to take advantage of what XenForo has to offer.

Let's say 5% it's just number, probably it's near to 100%, but I don't want to say 100% because I could be wrong. But I supported multiple pretty large forums in my life and I actually know who making money on forum spam and how it's working.

It's also doesn't mater what forum software is used, only registration/login/posting process are important. If you just add some randomization in form names and HTML it's will break spamming program login and your forum will be removed from it's database.

This forum isn't super popular, so I doubt somebody will spend any time for custom scripts.

I'm guessing it's Uber's version of "global moderator", rather than a moderator for Planetary Annihilation.

I was just saying anything they have done in the past to rid of spambots has not fully worked.

We have to fix our anti-spam scripts to support the new site. In the meantime, we're keeping an eye out for spamidiots.

Found a useful feature in the Preferences. There is an option to automatically watch every thread you reply to or make. New posts in threads you watch will appear as Alerts. Pretty cool.

Probably Uber used some standard scripts/CAPTCHAs. Unique systems aren't usually broken because it's cost more money than spammers can earn from links on one forum.

Most of spamming post done just for black SEO (to get more links to specific website), so it's only important to get as much forums as possible. Spam software might process 300-500+ of forums per minute. It's why nobody care about forums with custom anti-spam.

Small request. Since user avatars show next to thread topics can we have a default avatar for users w/out them? Seeing some threads w/out images is killing my ocd.

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I like these new emotes. They really portray the expressions text can lack.

^ This. I was just about to post this feature request. I hope you are taking notes.

Also, I don't see a way to cancel a post that I have started composing and have decided to send to the bit bucket.

Am I the first one to break the forums?

nah. got it a couple times already.

If possible could we get the 'go to unread' icon a bit larger?

I believe if you are watching a thread just clicking on the thread subject will bring you to the first unread post within that thread.

I used to help admin and run a few message boards and there was one trick that was really effective. Its basicly this, set up some kind of timer on certian actions. If an account does something that is too fast like register a new account in less than a 5 seconds, its a bot.

I think I'll be turning Alerts off. Didn't care for them on the Firefall forums, probably won't care for them here

Or starctaft player