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Posted 09 January 2013 - 02:38 PM
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting sick of the adverts/spam popping up every second post in General every hour or so for the past 24 hours.
Can anything be done to stop this?
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Posted 09 January 2013 - 03:07 PM
We're all sick of them. Cloudy is looking into a way to block all new accounts if the user is behind Tor.
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Posted 09 January 2013 - 03:11 PM
We're all sick of them. Cloudy is looking into a way to block all new accounts if the user is behind Tor.
Cool. was hoping cloudy was on it :)/>
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Posted 09 January 2013 - 04:09 PM
We're all sick of them. Cloudy is looking into a way to block all new accounts if the user is behind Tor.
Cool. was hoping cloudy was on it :)/>
Of course Cloudy's on it. He's also slapping the spammers with a trout six or seven times.
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Posted 09 January 2013 - 10:11 PM
The spammers aren't behind tor.
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Posted 09 January 2013 - 10:13 PM
I'm assuming they aren't bots like Google, Bing and Facebook. Since they appear as actual users.
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 04:20 AM
The spammers aren't behind tor.
Block their IP?
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 04:35 AM
The spammers aren't behind tor.
Block their IP?
They could always login from another one. and what if they are on a dynamic IP and it changes, and someone else gets that IP, then they are blocked and not the spammer.
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 04:54 AM
The spammers aren't behind tor.
Block their IP?
There isn't one specific origin IP. We'd be IP banning addresses that only got used the once, so it's no more effective than blocking the accounts.
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 05:03 AM
We really need a solution then. I counted 6 ads an hour ago (not sure if they're still there)
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 06:40 AM
I don't know if this is posssible, but maybe denying a post if it's a users first post and contains links would work because most of that spam relies on links.
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 07:10 AM
You should check out hidden captcha methods.
And ban posts that contain "ugg". I noticed a pattern.
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 08:03 AM
ive seen alot of viagra / cialis lately, those dont relate to ANYTHING so its safe to block them
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 09:44 AM
I already dragged up an old general post before seeing this one, but I see that the only two REAL security methods we use are a single question and a reCaptcha.
Any way we can do more?
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 09:45 AM
i noticed the guy who spammed after months of having posted the "books we read and love" thread
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 09:55 AM
Wasn't aware we already had a captcha, my suggestion for one is void then ^_^/>
What if we had an introduction forum that members had to post in before they could post anywhere else, I realize they might still spam that, but then the moderators only have one forum to cleanup. Not to mention, if topics are frequently closed after an introduction, then the spam bots would have to create a new topic, I don't think they do that, and if they did it'd be easy to notice that it's spam from the topic title.
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 10:01 AM
What if we had an introduction forum that members had to post in before they could post anywhere else, I realize they might still spam that, but then the moderators only have one forum to cleanup. Not to mention, if topics are frequently closed after an introduction, then the spam bots would have to create a new topic, I don't think they do that, and if they did it'd be easy to notice that it's spam from the topic title.
Do you realize how many new users we get per day?
I don't like introduction forums, someone would have to unlock all users but they may want to post a question quickly.
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 10:07 AM
Also, the spammers create new topics constantly.
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 10:11 AM
Not even that though. They create one, then move on to the next account. Very rarely does a single spammer make multiple posts.
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 11:20 AM
That capatcha isn't going to do much. There are even entire services dedicated to breaking capatchas.
Seriously. Check into hidden form field creation.
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Posted 10 January 2013 - 11:26 AM
I really wouldn't link to a serious hacking website if I were you. The staff dislike malicious Lua code; you may have just brought down a nuke.
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