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Steve McQueen Banned
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Posted: 06:47 - 10 Jun 2016 Post subject: Constant daily w-o-o-d-f-u-r-n-a-t-u-r-e spam |
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Most forums have detector software or account registration denial in place if detected. Proxy servers make an IP ban redundant. However' part time Admins/Mods too busy either laying in bed or at place of paid work rather than logging in & nuking it within at least a few hrs Rant over. ____________________ Rider assist gadgets are a waste of money for novices, the amount of times you refill the tank with meat & pie makes for a faster/more experienced rider. |
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Rogerborg nimbA
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Posted: 20:51 - 10 Jun 2016 Post subject: |
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ScaredyCat wrote: | Rate the posts as spam, when enough people do it they get banned and the posts removed. |
Has never happened.
ScaredyCat wrote: | inb4 Rogerborg and band all IPs outside Scotland.. |
Now you're talking sense. This one time, at banned camp, I totes IP blocked Russia, China and India, and saved a forum's life. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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1. Pretty much worthless.
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4. From what Katy says, there are already such things.
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Posted: 09:15 - 11 Jun 2016 Post subject: |
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1. there are plenty of newer types of captcha that bots just cannot get around, look into it.
2. Admin activation is the single best way, but this does require an admin.
3. Works well on plenty of other forums, as you can control what is allowed there with the mod.
4. There is no anti spam mod, or if there is one, it's next to useless, there are excellent ones out there.
You can smile all you want, I have been an admin in very large and very secure forums over the last 20 years, and when I mean large, I mean ones with +100,000 vistors per day. They had no problems with spammers at all, because to beat them, you just need to be up to date with your methods.
phpbb is the simplest of all forums to secure, there really is no excuse. |
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Cool story etc, which forums?
1 Captcha doesn't mean anything when humans are making the account.
2 & 3 are both just annoying to genuine users
4 eh?
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Posted: 09:41 - 11 Jun 2016 Post subject: |
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"Threads 570 Posts 6,267 Members 787 Active Members 283
69768 Spammers Denied Registration"
@Roger I assume that as well. |
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pjay wrote: | 1. there are plenty of newer types of captcha that bots just cannot get around, look into it. |
Plenty of places in the world where someone cheap can be employed to register in person (easily bypassing the captcha), then the registered account can be passed to a spammer bot for future spamming. Captcha is pretty much worthless these days.
pjay wrote: | 2. Admin activation is the single best way, but this does require an admin. |
It requires an admin yes, and requires users who will put up with it. Good way to avoid getting new users.
pjay wrote: | 3. Works well on plenty of other forums, as you can control what is allowed there with the mod. |
Possible, again if your users are prepared to put up with it.
pjay wrote: | 4. There is no anti spam mod, or if there is one, it's next to useless, there are excellent ones out there. |
There is an anti spam mod. At least 1 (try registering through tor and see if you can get on in a reasonable number of tries). I suspect these could be improved (for example, when a spammer is banned then hammer all the IP addresses they used to register) but they are mostly effective.
Make a forum secure enough against spammers and no spammers will try as there is nobody on the forum worth spamming to
There are quite a lot of spammers not getting through. I suspect the ones who do manage to get through are probably about 1% of those who are trying. And I have seen spammers auto banned from ratings, just normally they get nuked by a mod before that happens, or shortly afterwards.
It also comes down to luck with forums. For example I have 3 forums, 2 of which get effectively zero spammers registering (not had any successfully get in for months). The 3rd gets loads, yet has the same anti spam methods and it lives on the same server.
All the best
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The biggest problem to my mind is people keep replying to spam threads and bumping them to the top.
There is enough throughput on this forum that threads with no replies will quickly drop off the bottom of page 1 if left alone. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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What the fuck is furnature ____________________ gilera runner vxr200 (chavped)
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 322 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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