Forum Spammers

PokeMaster · Post by **PokeMaster** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:09 am

grr. the R forums has gotten about 15 accounts (I suspect all bots) in the last week or so. They've been littering our General Chat section with lots of spam, and it's starting to get quite annoying. Here's one of the more recent threads:
http://r.jumpingness.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=299

So yeah. Any advice?

Post by **Tank Program** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:17 am

I generally ban the IP and then delete the account, which at the same time takes all the posts...

PokeMaster · Post by **PokeMaster** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:40 am

yeah I did that for the first few, but then they just kept coming

. All different locations.

sinewav · Post by **sinewav** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:51 am

Require better captcha?

17na · Post by **17na** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:52 am

LOL it looks it wrote a novel for ya

but realy if that where my site I would be pissed to.

Hoax · Post by **Hoax** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:20 am

Poke try something from here or here
You want a better captcha or some kind of question answer system and/or something that checks registrations against a database of spam accounts

ItzAcid · Post by **ItzAcid** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:44 am

Same thing happened to the vcl site. We've had random accounts posting pornographic **** all over the shoutbox too. It's ridiculous. Even when we delete and ban the IP, more still come. Try doing the question and answer thing they suggested. It didn't help ours, but hopefully it will yours haha.

scene · Post by **scene** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:34 am

You could set it up so admins have to verify an account. It can be kind of a pain but will get rid of all of that. That's what ID does on it's forums.

Post by **Tank Program** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:22 am

If you can access the forum code, I'd recommend writing something custom to block spam. That's what I've done here. What's being used is the only copy in existence and therefore makes it a very small target for spammers. (I'm convinced most of the spam we get is actual people these days...)

AI-team · Post by **AI-team** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:25 pm

scene wrote:You could set it up so admins have to verify an account. It can be kind of a pain but will get rid of all of that. That's what ID does on it's forums.

I also tried that but it takes pretty much time and so I decided to make the captcha harder which fixed the problem

Titanoboa · Post by **Titanoboa** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:45 pm

K so we've had a few bots visiting our forums, and it feels bad to ban them etc.

So let's turn it into something positive, yeah? Check out http://r.jumpingness.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3 for what might be the offer you've been looking for.

PS. there's some great poetry in there too.

enjoy

Titanoboa · Post by **Titanoboa** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:01 am

oh didn't see this when i made that other thread.

btw poke why'd u delete the poetry?

Post by **Tank Program** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:41 am

Titanoboa wrote:oh didn't see this when i made that other thread.

Merged

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