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fryfrog
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Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:25 am Posts: 25
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 Spam control?
My suggestion: Some spam control 
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:41 am |
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vnguyen
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Joined: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:44 am Posts: 442 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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 Re: Spam control?
I ban approximately 5 users a day for spamming. I believe you happened to see one that had not been caught.
Spamming has been an issue for a while now. I have tried increasing the CAPTCHA difficulty, but received emails saying that real people couldn't answer the CAPTCHA correctly because it got too difficult.
I continue to try to find ways to make it quicker to ban/delete, but at this point it would take a custom modification to the forums in order to implement anything worthwhile. That's something I have tried to do, but haven't found a good modification that will actually work - and work well.
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Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:59 am |
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vnguyen
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Joined: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:44 am Posts: 442 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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 Re: Spam control?
Alright, here's to hoping that there will be less spambots. I have implemented a few features to try to provided additional layers of spam and spambot registration prevention.
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Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:28 am |
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fryfrog
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Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:25 am Posts: 25
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 Re: Spam control?
I don't know which version of phpbb this is, but when I was administering a board that was having spam problems I found a simple mod that helped a lot. It was a module that allowed a simple, custom question and answer during sign up.
My question was "Are you a robot?" with an answer of "no" being correct. It totally eliminated the auto-sign up bots. Of course, if they cared enough they'd have figured it out... but I guess they didn't.
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Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:48 am |
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mightor
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Joined: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:14 am Posts: 3654 Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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 Re: Spam control?
How about: "What is the air speed of a laden swallow?" *grin*
Regards, Xander
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Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:51 am |
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fryfrog
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Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:25 am Posts: 25
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 Re: Spam control?
African or European?
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Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:56 am |
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vnguyen
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Joined: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:44 am Posts: 442 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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 Re: Spam control?
I actually just put this in, however.. one bot was able to make it through within an hour. I checked in this morning and I didn't see any though so I guess it's better at least.
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:48 am |
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mightor
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Joined: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:14 am Posts: 3654 Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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 Re: Spam control?
Yeah, there seemed a distinct lull in the spam attacks this weekend. Perhaps it was a holiday weekend in Russia?  Regards, Xander
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:53 am |
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