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KreDiNyuTr

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Feel young again
« on: November 29, 2006 01:18 pm CST »
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« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2006 01:33 pm CST »
apparently the spam catcher didn't work....dangit!!
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« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2006 02:41 pm CST »
I've seen it work elsewhere.  I suppose that they just post in whichever has the most posts now.  Wait a second... :)

That gives me an idea.
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« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2006 03:12 pm CST »
Was that a light bulb going off over your head?  or are you just happy to see me?
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« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2006 03:41 pm CST »
I like what you've done there,:wink: but you know you've set yourself up for your own personal "Y2k".  I would've used a high number like 9999000, so you'd never have to deal with it again.
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« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2006 07:59 pm CST »
It's not any one piece of software doing this, folks.  Some go straight for forum ID 1, some go for the most posts, some go for the topmost sub-forum, and some go for subforums with specific names.  There's no one magical thing catch to stop them all.  I'm exploring ideas until we find a cocktail that works.  Don't be surprised if the spam continues for a while.
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« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2006 08:07 pm CST »
It's apparent that the CAPTCHA that phpBB uses currently has been cracked by about everybody.  We had less spam when I was using a pre-captcha version (v2 r12), actually.  I guess it was so damn old that the automated spambots weren't programmed to register on it.
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« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2006 02:12 am CST »
Admin activation is something I've considered in the past but will only do if I have to.  People would have to wait hours or even days if I'm not in town.  That's not good for community building.
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« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2006 08:25 am CST »
Apparently you have a new force to deal with in the 'spambot' world: real people getting paid to post messages. We've had a lot of problems with bots on Annihilation.info lately, no filter/mod seems to catch them all.
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« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2006 11:06 am CST »
As I said before:
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It's not any one piece of software doing this, folks.  Some go straight for forum ID 1, some go for the most posts, some go for the topmost sub-forum, and some go for subforums with specific names.  There's no one magical thing catch to stop them all.  I'm exploring ideas until we find a cocktail that works.  Don't be surprised if the spam continues for a while.

I'm not expecting a magical solution, and it's annoying that people are going "DEEEUUUR IT ISN'T WORKING" every time we get a new one.  I've said before that this isn't a cut and dry process.  It will take some time to find a winning combo that reduces what we're getting significantly.

I'm not really worried about sweatshop style labor.  The amount of forums on the internet that a room full of people can do compared to a single computer running fully automatic software is negligible.  Besides, they're only given the task of part of the software--doing the captcha.  They don't do anything else, as I understand it.  So, there are still ways to fork with them.
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« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2006 01:05 pm CST »
Either you aren't getting hit nearly as badly or you already have a better system, but I have to remove at least 5 spam posts a day, if not more.
And I know what it's like to have people complain that you aren't doing anything about the bots; they made an entire thread to tell us to 'install word boxes to stop them' on the registration page.

Have you tried http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=186683 ?
It locks out specific fields in the registration page (like signature, homepage) and bans bots that try to automatically fill those fields. The fields can be automatically activated again after a user makes a specified number of posts.
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« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2006 01:52 pm CST »
It's just constant moderation I'm guessing.  I remove about 6-12 spam threads per day.

Latin American spam, yay.

Mods are so annoying.
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As a point of history:  Our last server clear was on September 27, 2004.  That is 4963 days ago (13.6 years) as of today.

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« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2006 07:20 pm CST »
Looks like it's coming primarily from one person in latin america.  Anybody here post from there?  I'm probably just going to ban it.
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« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2006 07:23 pm CST »
if you blocked every possible IP combo then i bet your spam will be fixed!!!
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« Reply #14 on: November 30, 2006 07:32 pm CST »
I could've sworn i posted in this thread......   :?
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