Spam all over the place

Anonymous

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Thursday, March 15th 2007, 10:05am

its all over the place. new posts new topics, my internet connection is way too slow and checking out every topic to find out if there is something interesting or another spam post is too annoying.

there are two things i think could be done

1. if this type of forum supports this kind of function, admin can forbid users with less than 5 posts to create a new topic. bots will indicate error and wont create topics..

2. promote some of the active users to moderators.

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Quethas

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Thursday, March 15th 2007, 10:21am

Is there visual confirmation when you register?

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Anonymous

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Thursday, March 15th 2007, 10:35am

there is. but it doesnt seem to stop spambots, does it?

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Quethas

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Thursday, March 15th 2007, 11:18am

Well obviously not. Well you can always upgrade the code to stop spambots.

And after all it has been some time since I registered. There's no way I could know what you have to do when you register nowadays :lol:

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Anonymous

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Thursday, March 15th 2007, 11:30am

Re: Spam all over the place

Quoted from ""Gee Tee Age""

its all over the place. new posts new topics, my internet connection is way too slow and checking out every topic to find out if there is something interesting or another spam post is too annoying.

there are two things i think could be done

1. if this type of forum supports this kind of function, admin can forbid users with less than 5 posts to create a new topic. bots will indicate error and wont create topics..

2. promote some of the active users to moderators.

The new members should be under moderation, posts should not appear until it's approved by a mod. Once it's clear the new forum member is genuine, then they may be taken off. This will help the problem of Spam quite well I believe.

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Quethas

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Thursday, March 15th 2007, 11:45am

But who has time to approve every message they make?

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Anonymous

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Thursday, March 15th 2007, 12:00pm

Quoted from ""Quethas""

But who has time to approve every message they make?

A moderator obviously.

To make things a bit easier for them as Gee Tee Age suggested, is to promote some of the active users to moderators.

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Posse the Daredevil

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Thursday, March 15th 2007, 11:30pm

I wonder, how many people here that will simultaniously start a topic to celebrate H.P's birthday in 30 minutes

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Sandra

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Friday, March 16th 2007, 12:11am

The birthday topic is there now

One problem is that as I understand it we cannot upgrade the forum if we want to keep the existing database - and I know that I for one would be sorry to loose everything thats on the forum just now - there is some interesting and valuable stuff - and for me it would be a shame to have to start all over again. I think we hope that the next release will allow the existing database to be imported.....

Today has been without a doubt the worst spam day I can ever remember

I have been going through the member list deleting "bad links" etc - from the past year or so - and all that I can say is that there are definately patterns - I am looking for these in the present spambots - and have put various restrictions in place today - but I fear that without additional authentification we can't stop them completely - but I do hope we can slow them down :wink: .

On this forum authentification cannot be by moderator - only admin - and as of yet I don't know how that would work, but its a possibilty we could look at I guess - I would need to discuss with Sebastian, but it would not be easy to implement in practice. I don't think every message should be authenticated - because that would not work - but new users maybe - because the profiles of spambots follow a pattern....

.... after a very short time I can tell which member is a spambot from the profile, because I have looked at 1000s profiles in the past few weeks - and although not always, they do tend to follow patterns.

These spam posts are usually deleted in a short time - I have deleted about 100 today - and I know Britt has also deleted some - for now all I can say is please try to ignore them - we will delete as soon as possible - and we are looking for ways to block them. It is usualy easy to tell which posts are spam.

...but please don't be tempted by spam porn links - there may be nasty viruses behind the appealing subjects :wink: - if you want porn go buy a magazine - its less likely to trash your computer!

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Sandra

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Friday, March 16th 2007, 12:41am

Quoted from ""Quethas""

Is there visual confirmation when you register?

i don't think there is - just email confirmation

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Dave From Sheffield

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Friday, March 16th 2007, 10:17am

Quoted from ""Sandra""

if you want porn go buy a magazine - its less likely to trash your computer!

Thanks for the hint! :lol:

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ScooterPosseLeipzig

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Friday, March 16th 2007, 4:48pm

spam every day in our forum :evil:

very bad... :roll:

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ScooterPosseLeipzig

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Friday, March 16th 2007, 4:54pm

and it's a real problem :shock: :?

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09.01. Hannover - Swiss Life Hall
10.01. Leipzig - Arena
11.01. Berlin - O2 World
14.01. Bamberg - Stechert Arena
16.01. München - Zenith
17.01. Stuttgart - Porsche Arena
18.01. Düsseldorf - Mitsubishi Electric Halle
19.01. Freiburg - Rothaus Arena
21.01. Offenbach - Stadthalle
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Sandra

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Friday, March 16th 2007, 7:07pm

It is a problem - but hopefully another source has been banned

We can't stop the spam, but hopefully I can at least stop some of it by banning sources that keep coming back.

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