Spam? Copy B3ta?

[fatpies]

Hell we get a lot of spam these days often created from very new accounts.


How about we copy b3ta and have something called rookie tuedays or whatever day. Whereby when you sign up it doesn't approve your account till the following Tuesday.

Said spammer, robot or human needs to wait a week tops to post and in theory has moved onto the next spam target rather than waiting us out.


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[Marmalade]

Then even the humans will get bored and move on.

No great loss really but one lost member could be the new Keith or teflon Mike (not that we'd ever want to replace them)

Just ban gmail and see the spamming fall, fast and by lots
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[doggone]

It makes work for the mods/admin, but some forums make the first 10 or even 25 posts moderated so they can't be seen until approved.
Or you can have all new members wait until a judgement is made by a human based on location and inappropriate user names like asdfg which many spambots favour.

[Kickstart]

Hi

Bots can probably be stopped fairly easily with a bit of extra customisation.

People signing up are more of a problem. Having the first 1~2 posts moderated might be an idea. Not keen on stopping posts for the first week (that would pretty much kill off any new members).

One useful function for the mods would be a list of all the posts rated as spam to make them easy to find. 90% would probably be new posters looking for a ban, and most of the rest would be dubious ratings.

All the best

Keith
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[The Artist]

[Marmalade]

[The Artist]

I think a mod or 2 should have the power to ban. I know it goes against BCF's free speech policy but just for the ones who are obviously spammers who join and make one or 2 posts obviously spamming their products.

[Kickstart]

[Asharin]

[Marmalade]

[Kickstart]

Hi

I have a couple of forums and some changes to the registration script has pretty much stopped all the spammers. Went from dozens a day to about 1 a year without banning gmail (OK, mail.ru and a few others are blocked, but that had little effect before the other changes).

All the best

Keith
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[Imonster]

Would an inability to post links until you've amassed 10/20/30/whatever posts work, or is that already in place?
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Nice idea, but not sure that would be that easy to do (when posting phpBB doesn't care too much about the links, etc, they are translated when the post is displayed).

Also given the garbage links in some of the spam posts I am not sure the spammers care too much about correctly formed links.

All the best

Keith
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[Asharin]

[Bendy]

I don't think bcf particularly has a spam problem.

If people just marked as spam instead of replying to it and pushing it back up to the top, it would be even less apparent.

[.....]

Maybe auto ban after a certain amount of 'Spam' ratings. If the person gets banned then a message asking them to PM a mod to be unbanned if they are a genuine poster?

[Korn]

[Kickstart]

Hi

Thankyou.

EDIT - although it seems to highlight threads which have had (I presume) deleted spam posts in them (eg https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=230430 )

All the best

Keith
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[G]

Links going to an 'approval list' would be nice; though often it seems they forget the links; or they're just adding a website in their profile, etc.

I still want a 'worm' option to remove all of a user's posts in one click (or at least hide them, for one you click on the wrong user ).

[Marmalade]

Does the ACP not have the option to delete all user posts when you delete/ban them?
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Standard phpBB 2 doesn't. There are mods to allow this (and I installed it on one board I run), but the possibility of a cock up worries me a bit.

All the best

Keith
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[Korn]

The problem with the "one-button-nuke" approach is that there isn't an easy way to undo if you cock up / get hacked, whereas banning somebody hides their posts but is undo-able.

It should probably also hide threads created by that person that have zero replies.
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[The Artist]

[G]

It'd be nice if there was a separate post-state or something that puts them in limbo for a while.

Ie as well as checking to see if they're banned and hiding their post, it checks to see if their wormed and doesn't display anything at all.

However, a long time since I've looked in to how phpbb works.