Moho Animation Forum

This forum is free playground for the #$#&^ SPAMMERS!

F.M. wrote:This forum is free playground for the #$#&^ SPAMMERS!

A captcha system helps to a point. A Newer version of this BBS certainly would support that. Hopefully SM will invest some time and effort to update the forums and do it right. I've seen some forums get totally screwed up by bad upgrades and/or migrations to another bulletin board system. I think the worst one I saw was a migration to a face-book-wanna-be type forum that was pretty awful to use. Also, but even worse, all the migrated topics and posts lost the original authors. All topic ports were set to the admin user. UGH!

Yeah, I have noticed that this forum is getting rocked by spammers lately. I guess the incentive is that sometimes they stay up for weeks before anyone bothers to delete them.

Honestly, can someone please do something about this. It seems we are over 50% of post are spam now.
Why can't we have the 1st 5 or so post made by a new member have to be approved before made public?

Yep, I've just about given up on this forum for that very reason. It's too annoying!

Does Smith Micro have an official forum for Anime studio pro? I'm not comfortable using a forum that doesn't/can't keep its forums clean of garbage posts like this forum.

Getting annoying having to read and reread so i don't open up crap posts that have nothing to do with Anime Studio.

Cheers

(You can delete my individual post. I never noticed others complaining about the same thing.)

mykylr wrote:Does Smith Micro have an official forum for Anime studio pro?...)

LOL - This IS the official FORUM. There is a lot of folklore and fiery banter housed within this forum. As bad as it might seem there are some real gems of information here.

Here's a few items I would like SM to consider.

1) Technical manuals on how the product works. Getting your head around layers masks, etc is a pain. I've seen interesting posts here that do a lot to explain what the user manual and official tutorials don't. For instance the fact that AS renders from the bottom layer up.

2) An up-to-date scripting interface manual. This would be a supplement to the above.

3) If SM can't find the time or $$ for the first two item then at least add a wiki so the end users can organize the vast amount of tribal knowledge here and in their minds in one place.

4) Update these forums to a current version of phpBB and get rid of this spam.

I'm sure others who've been here for many years have other ideas to add. Some users migrated away from this forum for various reason and now frequent other unofficial AS/Moho related forums.

I'm just a newbie here, but I appreciate any information I can get my hands on to help be understand AS better.

It's not so much that the spammers won the election (like the tea party), in part it's also because our own posts become less and less in number, as I observed over the last months. I'm no exception.

Reasons for this may include:
- we do work in other programs right now, something which may or may not change
- we are too experienced now to ask interesting questions (he he)
- less new users join in
- the user base is too much divided between versions 5, 6 and 7.

I agree to all that a software update of the forum is way due. I also share the fear that in an update all old and valuable information might get lost. (Have experienced this when Mirage shut down in favour of TVPaint.)

Don't ask me for solutions - as long as neither Mike nor SM step in there is none.

sbtamu wrote:Why can't we have the 1st 5 or so post made by a new member have to be approved before made public?

Yeah, I've been on other boards that have this and it works great!

slowtiger wrote:It's not so much that the spammers won the election (like the tea party), in part it's also because our own posts become less and less in number, as I observed over the last months. I'm no exception.

I suspect this is true. If spammers were driving away members, wouldn't we see a corresponding increase of posts at the other AS forum http://www.animatorsforum.com where spam is non-existent? Yet, it is just as quiet there as it is here. The user base appears to be maturing...