Outstanding work as usual Jared!
I am just so sick of spam period.
And not just Forum Spam!
You and I both have spent a great deal of time everyday deleting fake Members registered by spammers. The required reply to the registration verification was simply not enough to deter them but I think (pray) you stopped them cold this time.
While I love the fact that Google lives in our Real Estate Forums unfortunately they were indexing many of these bogus Members. This has had to have an adverse effect on rankings since they often use known spam triggers in there login user ID or combined characters forming gibberish. So this should really help.
Now I get to go into
Google’s Webmaster Tools and delete all the bogus URLs.
Too bad there is not an effective way to stop the constant bombardment of email other than implementing this system on all of our sites and discontinuing the use of all existing emails.
I am personally wasting 1-2 hours per day combating or filtering through spam. I would love to know an accurate figure of what spam cost the American economy in time lost, software, firewalls, IT personnel and so on. Something tells me if we had an accurate figure that Spamming would be a capital offense.
Anyway, great job Jared!
~Mack