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Spam in the forum
Posted:
Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:09 am
by snowlord
It seems that the spam only appears in the General forum. Is that because it is named "General", a common name, or because it is first?
If it comes from the name, maybe it could be changed to something else, e.g. "General AR" or something like that, PeterT?
Posted:
Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:05 am
by Toa the Boa
I guess this thread should have some tips on how to get rid of the spam:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=427852
Posted:
Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:02 pm
by kingofthespill
I sent Peter a message about this.
Posted:
Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:47 am
by PeterT
It's because it's the first forum. I'm investigating spam countermeasures, but it's not trivial. Thanks a lot to kingofthespill for his housekeeping work!!
As a short-term measure I've appointed some additional mods for the general forum.
Posted:
Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:19 am
by PeterT
Okay, instead of bothering prospective users with a more complex captcha I set up a sly little tweak that should deter 99% of all bot registrations if it works as intended. Human spammers will still get through of course, but that's what the additional mods are for
Posted:
Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:30 am
by dudiobugtron
PeterT wrote:As a short-term measure I've appointed some additional mods for the general forum.
I see I have been made one of these - I GOT THA POWA!
Evil Spammers beware!
Posted:
Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:40 am
by PeterT
As I really believe that the new measures will work and that we will have very few, if any, spam signups in the future I also went through the database with a special toolkit and removed all "suspicious" inactive accounts. That means the forum now has 56 less members, hopefully none of them actually were human
We're rollin' squeaky-clean again!
Whew. I hate spammers.
Posted:
Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:53 am
by PeterT
Another 39 accounts killed. That ought to be enough for now.
Posted:
Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:33 pm
by PeterT
Added another spambot registration safeguard. The first one wasn't as effictive as I'd hoped... *sigh*