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=> FAQ / Board Issues => Topic started by: Will on June 02, 2008, 10:21:20 pm

Title: Spamming
Post by: Will on June 02, 2008, 10:21:20 pm

We've been under attack by bots who have created tons of spam accounts for a long time. Over the past few weeks, the trickle has turned into a flood. Something will be done about it eventually, but for now, I'm just reviewing every registration by hand.

Title: Spamming
Post by: iluvvanessa on June 03, 2008, 05:28:55 am

I'm not spam!

Title: Spamming
Post by: itsthefiveofus on June 03, 2008, 06:52:25 am

Oh jeeze Will, that must be hard to do one by one!

Title: Spamming
Post by: Felo on June 10, 2008, 03:11:09 pm

Just install a CAPTCHA image verification plugin, and boom, spam is gone :D

Title: Spamming
Post by: Trolan on July 30, 2008, 11:23:04 pm

Quote from: "Felo"

Just install a CAPTCHA image verification plugin, and boom, spam is gone :D

Not really.  Spammers have been breaking the more common ones.  GMail and Yahoo's have been broken, for example.

Title: Spamming
Post by: _all_is_well_ on July 31, 2008, 12:18:39 pm

Quote from: "Trolan"

Quote from: "Felo"

Just install a CAPTCHA image verification plugin, and boom, spam is gone :D

Not really.  Spammers have been breaking the more common ones.  GMail and Yahoo's have been broken, for example.

Yes capatcha doesnt solve the promblem completely.

Title: Re: Spamming
Post by: Weisz on June 25, 2011, 10:09:49 am

Can somebody clean all the spam in the Offtopic forum?? It's crazy. Thanx. :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\

Title: Re: Spamming
Post by: kaysha on June 26, 2011, 08:04:24 am

Quote from: Weisz on June 25, 2011, 10:09:49 am

Can somebody clean all the spam in the Offtopic forum?? It's crazy. Thanx. :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\

Just click the report button and it notifies a few of us.

We keep swapping out the captcha and adding different mods trying to prevent the spam.  Kelly (Trolan) just added a mod where it checks the registering IP address against a black list and that seems to have helped... plus we made it admin approval for any new users.

Title: Re: Spamming
Post by: Weisz on June 26, 2011, 08:27:41 am

Quote from: kaysha on June 26, 2011, 08:04:24 am

Quote from: Weisz on June 25, 2011, 10:09:49 am

Can somebody clean all the spam in the Offtopic forum?? It's crazy. Thanx. :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\

Just click the report button and it notifies a few of us.

We keep swapping out the captcha and adding different mods trying to prevent the spam.  Kelly (Trolan) just added a mod where it checks the registering IP address against a black list and that seems to have helped... plus we made it admin approval for any new users.

Yeah i know, ive done that in the past, but there were two pages full of spams, so... couldn't report all of them..

glad to know things are working ^^