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Re: Spam

by dfreely » Thu Nov 18, 2010 5:41 pm

osiris wrote:It looks as though the accounts themselves could be human generated though, but the posts are by a bot. I'm not 100% on that but Admin's silly number question thing is always correct on them.
The problem with the silly number question thing is that it isn't an actual question, it's just a passcode, which is "3". It's much easier for a bot to crack a short constant like "3" than a longer variable like "XtH67e".

Re: Spam

by dobie516 » Thu Nov 18, 2010 4:06 pm

I know this sounds silly but a friend of mine has a forum site and added a spam section for people to post spam. It almost eliminated all spam in other parts of the site.

Re: Spam

by ursha » Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:44 pm

3 days ago there 91 topics posted by someone. Next day 60. Today I came here in the morning and spammer was just online and posting many more but I had to go to school so didn't have time to delete those 10 that were already posted, I only reported the user.
It takes at least 1 hour to delete all those spam topics as there are often about 100 posted and I believe this should be solved differently as banning members' IP's and deleting topics doesn't help and it is only a waste of time.

Re: Spam

by osiris » Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:13 am

dfreely wrote:The spam I've seen (including a barrage right now..) are spambot-generated, I don't think I've seen a whole lot of human-generated ones. But yeah, either way setting up defenses doesn't hurt.
It looks as though the accounts themselves could be human generated though, but the posts are by a bot. I'm not 100% on that but Admin's silly number question thing is always correct on them.

Re: Spam

by dfreely » Thu Nov 18, 2010 6:49 am

The spam I've seen (including a barrage right now..) are spambot-generated, I don't think I've seen a whole lot of human-generated ones. But yeah, either way setting up defenses doesn't hurt.

Re: Spam

by osiris » Wed Nov 17, 2010 10:59 pm

dfreely wrote:What does the admin ever do about it? The weirdest thing about this is phpBB already has some innate spam protection in the form of CAPTCHA, but it's apparently turned off on this forum. I also think we're running on an outdated version of phpBB, which would have a lot of holes for spammers to get around.
I'm not sure even if a captcha would help in this case as they appear to be posted by real people. Of course, it couldn't hurt!!

Re: Spam

by dfreely » Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:59 pm

What does the admin ever do about it? The weirdest thing about this is phpBB already has some innate spam protection in the form of CAPTCHA, but it's apparently turned off on this forum. I also think we're running on an outdated version of phpBB, which would have a lot of holes for spammers to get around.

Re: Spam

by dobie516 » Wed Nov 17, 2010 4:01 pm

osiris wrote:There were over 60 by the same member yesterday. I tried to remove as many as I could at the time. Thankfully when I got back on today someone had finished the job for me. We're doing our best guys and appreciate the help.

If you see a spam topic, report it to the mods by clicking on the red ! on the post, and if possible, actually PM one of us (TM, mod etc - TMs can deal with spam, but we can't see the report logs, unfortunately). Any TM reading, if you remove a post remember to report the user to Ozzman for immediate removal!
Dana and I got the rest. What is Admin doing to prevent this?

Re: Spam

by osiris » Wed Nov 17, 2010 2:05 pm

There were over 60 by the same member yesterday. I tried to remove as many as I could at the time. Thankfully when I got back on today someone had finished the job for me. We're doing our best guys and appreciate the help.

If you see a spam topic, report it to the mods by clicking on the red ! on the post, and if possible, actually PM one of us (TM, mod etc - TMs can deal with spam, but we can't see the report logs, unfortunately). Any TM reading, if you remove a post remember to report the user to Ozzman for immediate removal!

Re: Spam

by Jaffer » Sat Nov 13, 2010 5:43 am

I agree. To any new member who may be reading this, if you see spam, you can click on the ! In the bottom right hand side to report it.

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