NESSAholics.com

=> FAQ / Board Issues => Topic started by: Harmonius on August 21, 2006, 10:17:28 am

Title: What is the deal with these dating agencies/personal friends
Post by: Harmonius on August 21, 2006, 10:17:28 am
Is it me, or are these dating agencies/personal friends just targeting nessaholics? There's another one of these threads in the off topic forum and it's not the first time they've appeared:

http://forums.nessaholics.com/viewtopic.php?t=9471
Title: What is the deal with these dating agencies/personal friends
Post by: BWilli on August 21, 2006, 10:48:36 am
i'm sure theyre not targeting nessaholics...they probably join all typs of forums and spam that shit.
Title: What is the deal with these dating agencies/personal friends
Post by: KULPDOGG on August 21, 2006, 11:10:08 am
just ban them :roll:
Title: What is the deal with these dating agencies/personal friends
Post by: Will on August 21, 2006, 12:58:02 pm
It's difficult to do. I think whoever is doing this shit is using a botnet, meaning that none of the posts use the same IP addresses. We're trashing the posts as soon as we see them.
Title: What is the deal with these dating agencies/personal friends
Post by: Dora on August 21, 2006, 01:53:32 pm
I get the bots at my own forum also. its a pain but they will leave after a while I think.
Title: What is the deal with these dating agencies/personal friends
Post by: KULPDOGG on August 21, 2006, 02:07:15 pm
how about banning them through email addresses?
are they all comming from the same place? isn't there a way you could ban anyone from registering if their email address is @something.blah

if not, it cant hurt to ban all the individual email addresses seperately

also, check the IP addresses, if they're all similar, but their endings are different, you can ban them all easily, for example,
say 2 of them use these ips:
123.45.37.88
123.45.37.42
you could just ban 123.45.37.*
or even 123.45.*.* if the last and 2nd to last digits are different.

if they're completely different, it still wouldn't hurt to just ban each one individually, im sure after a while you would've banned them all.

....just trying to help :D
Title: What is the deal with these dating agencies/personal friends
Post by: Will on August 21, 2006, 05:11:37 pm
Quote from: "KULPDOGG"
if not, it cant hurt to ban all the individual email addresses seperately


They just keep on using different addresses.

Quote from: "KULPDOGG"
also, check the IP addresses, if they're all similar, but their endings are different, you can ban them all easily, for example,
say 2 of them use these ips:
123.45.37.88
123.45.37.42
you could just ban 123.45.37.*
or even 123.45.*.* if the last and 2nd to last digits are different.


Like I said, I think they're using a botnet. None of the IP addresses they are using are in the same subnet.
Title: What is the deal with these dating agencies/personal friends
Post by: illogical on August 21, 2006, 09:33:20 pm
Captcha (sp?) is supposed to be filtering these out.  With sufficient computing power and a well crafted program, even the Captcha images can be overcome.  It's best to just let the mods and admins do their work.