Sick of spam

PB · Post by PB » Sat Aug 02, 2014 12:39 am

Can the forum be changed so that new members have to
manually approved before posting? Spam is rife here now.

As a new member of other forums, I don't mind waiting
a few days to be approved by their mods. It's the norm.

IdeasVacuum · Post by **IdeasVacuum** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 2:28 am

I'm sick of spam too, but I don't think that measure will make any real difference.

What might help would be to have the title pre-fixed with [SPAM] automatically when a long-standing member of the forum reports the post.

.... or how about giving all the regulars a special admin right to quarantine suspected spam posts?

PB · Post by PB » Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:41 am

> have the title pre-fixed with [SPAM]

That doesn't solve anything, because you can't see that
title on the individual post until you go to the topic. For
example, I started a thread about Zorin OS a while back.
The "View New Posts" link shows new posts about it.
So I go there, only to be met with 4 spam replies at
the end of the thread. Having [SPAM] on them would
have achieved nothing, as I still had to go there just
to see it.

KJ67 · Post by **KJ67** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 7:43 am

How about just having a few hours grace period for new users before posting?
At least that would reduce the flow.

Bananenfreak · Post by **Bananenfreak** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 8:15 am

KJ67 wrote:How about just having a few hours grace period for new users before posting?
At least that would reduce the flow.

+1
I think that would prevent bots from posting.

hallodri · Post by **hallodri** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 8:29 am

Bananenfreak wrote:
KJ67 wrote:How about just having a few hours grace period for new users before posting?
At least that would reduce the flow.
+1
I think that would prevent bots from posting.

That would bring anything at all. One would only annoy new users.

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Post by **Fred** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:58 am

It's even more annoying for us, as we need to manually delete all spams users.. I just changed the captcha on the registration page, could some of you give a try and so if it's OK ? (and tell me which user name so I can delete it).

Lord · Post by **Lord** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:05 am

Hi Fred!

Registration works fine.
I made an account for "SpamBottest", also posted in "Off Topic".

Edit:
The "Josephbib"-Bot is very fast.

marc_256 · Post by **marc_256** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:25 am

Some time ago, I created a test forum,
in one week I had have 156 spammers,
so I needed to delete it manually to.
So, I installed a phpbb option, but then you have to accept every new member manually.
A lot of work, but clearing up spam also.

Marc,

Post by **Fred** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:50 am

No one single bot since 1 week, it looks like they don't know what is PureBasic about

. That's a great news, no more wasted time on clearing up bots !

Bananenfreak · Post by **Bananenfreak** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 8:27 am

No one should tell them what Purebasic is about

Post by **Rings** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:05 pm

Fred wrote:No one single bot since 1 week, it looks like they don't know what is PureBasic about . That's a great news, no more wasted time on clearing up bots !

damm, you made me unemployment...

Post by **Fred** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:39 pm

You should change your signature to "FORMER SPAMINATOR NR.1"

IdeasVacuum · Post by **IdeasVacuum** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:23 am

A thought Fred - the bots seem to be breaking the captcha over a period of time, so if you where to swap captcha's regularly, you could always be a step ahead. May be write a tiny PB app to do that..........

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