CypherGhost wrote:

salam Alikum wrote:

Salam Dear,

This message might meet you in utmost surprise however,it's just my urgentneed for a foreign partner that made me contact you for this transaction.I am a banker by profession from DAKAR REPUBLIC OF SENEGAL in west Africa and currently holding the post of auditing general, I discover this deposit in our auditing course.

Yeah! Spam hit Memestreams. We're on the map now. We're a target! :)

Thanks for the report.

The volume of spam on MemeStreams is really intolerable. There are a wide variety of websites that include us on lists of good places to post spam. Spam posted here doesn't get indexed, but its not like the people running these lists care about their accuracy. Fortunately, we've made enough architectural changes over the years that for the most part, this spam doesn't negatively impact the day to day use of the site.

The spammers that start directing messages to people's memeboxes are the exception, of course, and if you get spam like that please report it because I need to delete users like that. There are further architectural changes that I could make that would make memebox spam less annoying, but really, I think something different is needed.

I think we need an invite only token system for new users. I don't see a viable alternative at this point.

Although some of you did join this community without being previously connected to one of the users here, I don't think that could happen today. The vast majority of people who join this site are spammers and there are so many of them that if a legitimate user joins its most likely that no one would notice them in the fray. They likely remain in the "New Users with posts" ghetto, wadding in the spam, and almost certainly giving up before getting noticed and promoted into the normal user base.

I think that at this point a token system would be far more likely to enable new users to make positive contributions to the site.

When I'll have time to develop one, however, remains to be seen. I wrote a bunch of changes to the code in March that remain unfinished and unshipped.