Infested With Spammers

Eddaweaver · Post by **Eddaweaver** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:00 am

Zeph wrote:dont let anyone start a new thread until they have 1 or 2 posts(replies).

That's going to mess up people who registered and want to ask a question straight away.

Grayswandir · Post by **Grayswandir** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:24 pm

Death's Avatar wrote:Right....I meant with us though. 4 spam threads while doobie is out of town is not going to result in the myth community dividing...unless....

Well yeah, true...what Lugas was talking about (I think...) is the Pigeon Lounge...basically a rule-less section of the board...

Baak · Post by **Baak** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:31 pm

Zeph wrote:dont let anyone start a new thread until they have 1 or 2 posts(replies).

lol! That'll work!

gugusm · Post by **gugusm** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:07 pm

Zeph wrote:dont let anyone start a new thread until they have 1 or 2 posts(replies).

I'm not sure. If someone needs help, he register and ask. Maybe later he answer on someone's other question.

The Elfoid · Post by **The Elfoid** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:51 pm

BAN EVERYONE

Lugas · Post by **Lugas** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:50 am

Ironically, one spambots website was: google.com!

Baak · Post by **Baak** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:59 am

Lugas wrote:Ironically, one spambots website was: google.com!

That's why they do that - just another way to attempt to stop people from banning them, etc.

Brilliantly evil.

Nitro · Post by **Nitro** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:50 pm

all you need to do is update the forums to the latest version. And also go to http://www.phpbbhacks.com/ or to a similar website with phpbb add ons and dl registration tweaks such as visual confirmation and etc.

I did all that in mwc04 forums and there hasnt been a new spam bot registered ever since.

Baak · Post by **Baak** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 3:44 pm

Nitro wrote:all you need to do is update the forums to the latest version. And also go to http://www.phpbbhacks.com/ or to a similar website with phpbb add ons and dl registration tweaks such as visual confirmation and etc.

I did all that in mwc04 forums and there hasnt been a new spam bot registered ever since.

Aye - Doobie's gots the goods, he just needs a little breather.

I sent him an ultra-simple tweak to the visual confirmation that worked on our forums. We haven't had a spam bot registration in six weeks and were getting 2-3 per day before. It's sweet.

Post by **Doobie** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:00 pm

Sorry guys, i DO plan to implement this stuff, but this week has turned out to be just as bad as last, my grandmother just died and I'm on my way to nelson bc for the funeral tomorrow...

hopefully next week.

The Elfoid · Post by **The Elfoid** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:40 pm

Doobie wrote:Sorry guys, i DO plan to implement this stuff, but this week has turned out to be just as bad as last, my grandmother just died and I'm on my way to nelson bc for the funeral tomorrow...

hopefully next week.

I'm real bloody sorry man to hear that

You're providing us with a free service for our own benefit, don't you dare go apologising! We owe you just for setting up this forum, let alone running it.

Lugas · Post by **Lugas** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:19 am

Doobie wrote:Sorry guys, i DO plan to implement this stuff, but this week has turned out to be just as bad as last, my grandmother just died and I'm on my way to nelson bc for the funeral tomorrow...

hopefully next week.

I'm very sorry to hear that.

But, I have a suggestion: Scrap the General Forum and create a new forum(s) called Myth Story Discussion or Chat or whatever. Spammers seem to go for General. They always did this on the Pfhorums. Now that I'm onto the Pfhorums, the admin had a great idea of getting rid of spam. RyokoTK (the admin), disabled new users from creating new topics. You could only create new topics when you entered the "Mjolnir Mark IV Cyborg" group, which is when you post at least once. To stop it from getting rid of proper newbies, he created a pinned topic called "Can't post a topic?" which allowed others to post there and then create a welcome topic.

The Elfoid · Post by **The Elfoid** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:31 pm

Spambots can post in threads.

AblitERateOR · Post by **AblitERateOR** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:31 pm

Lugas wrote:
Doobie wrote:Sorry guys, i DO plan to implement this stuff, but this week has turned out to be just as bad as last, my grandmother just died and I'm on my way to nelson bc for the funeral tomorrow...

hopefully next week.
I'm very sorry to hear that.

But, I have a suggestion: Scrap the General Forum and create a new forum(s) called Myth Story Discussion or Chat or whatever. Spammers seem to go for General. They always did this on the Pfhorums. Now that I'm onto the Pfhorums, the admin had a great idea of getting rid of spam. RyokoTK (the admin), disabled new users from creating new topics. You could only create new topics when you entered the "Mjolnir Mark IV Cyborg" group, which is when you post at least once. To stop it from getting rid of proper newbies, he created a pinned topic called "Can't post a topic?" which allowed others to post there and then create a welcome topic.

Once again this seems like a very messy and hacky way of getting around it which is kinda undesirable. I think myrds idea would be much more effective and less confusing:

myrd wrote:I think we just need to modify the registration system so that bots cant get through. For example, add a line saying "please enter the text you see here backwards". Since these bots are made for stock phpBBs, they'll fail on the custom setup. No need for SPAM forum or anything.

Lugas · Post by **Lugas** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:26 am

What I meant was that those with less than 1 post can't create a topic! If anyone wants to create a topic they should mention it in a thread. The spambots only post once and then leave. If they can't create a topic, they can't spam!

The Tain

Infested With Spammers