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The Elfoid
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The only solution I could work out on the OoH site was to remove signatures (where they put ads if they ever post, and which serve imo to take up massive amounts of real estate) and to occasionally go through the db of users and remove users with ridiculous name/www combinations who have never or rarely posted.Horus â„¢ wrote:It seems guys you are suffering from the Registering bots (they register and do nothing, but the websites linked in their profile tend to advertise things like mobile phone pictures or porn websites).
Just something you may want to check up on.
Not sure if phpBB3 will have a solution to this or if someone has come up with a phpBB2 module to solve the problem. I wonder how they get past the visual confirmation during registration unless it's an actual person doing it then or they've cracked the code (which should be uncrackable imo).
No Doob, it's definitely a part of the registration process for later versions of phpBB (I referred to it as visual confirmation). This is what makes me wonder if it isn't bots registering but spammers themselves (i.e. in person).
A bit trickier to keel these off at registration...
All I've come up with so far is manually sifting through the db once a month and deleting the obvious ones. The signature line was the only remaining way they were using to do ads because they could post anything as a reply to any topic - even though it sounded like they were part of a different conversation - and their signature with webpage/links would appear. It was obvious to everyone when it happened, and they were purged within a couple days, but annoying nonetheless.
Making sure users can't send email via the forums is also wise (the default I believe), but really I don't even like the idea of those folks sending PM's - not that I know of any who have.
I also made all Usergroups such that you couldn't list all users in usergroups from the board - something I don't think would ever really be used anyway - just because I'm a bit paranoid and wouldn't want someone sifting through the data a bit easier (not that the email addy's are available, but again you could build a list of the links and send emails to everyone, etc.).
I had thought at one point of making a "no brainer quiz" for registration that said something like: "What are Wights filled with?", etc.
A bit trickier to keel these off at registration...
All I've come up with so far is manually sifting through the db once a month and deleting the obvious ones. The signature line was the only remaining way they were using to do ads because they could post anything as a reply to any topic - even though it sounded like they were part of a different conversation - and their signature with webpage/links would appear. It was obvious to everyone when it happened, and they were purged within a couple days, but annoying nonetheless.
Making sure users can't send email via the forums is also wise (the default I believe), but really I don't even like the idea of those folks sending PM's - not that I know of any who have.
I also made all Usergroups such that you couldn't list all users in usergroups from the board - something I don't think would ever really be used anyway - just because I'm a bit paranoid and wouldn't want someone sifting through the data a bit easier (not that the email addy's are available, but again you could build a list of the links and send emails to everyone, etc.).
I had thought at one point of making a "no brainer quiz" for registration that said something like: "What are Wights filled with?", etc.
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Orlando the Axe
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