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Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 8:15 am
by cyclopian
I've modded and admin'd on several forums before. And we kept spam at bay very easily
The basic run down we used without having to upgrade the entire board to a different system:
1. New users can't post a thread at all until a certain amount of posts made (and we'd ban if they were spamming to reach that number)
2. A cap on how many threads a user can make in a given time (this should be a given on any forum, what normal user is going to post 10+ threads in 30 minutes, let alone a day?)
3. Captcha + question related to forum for sign up
4. A mod has to allow new registration requests, not just automated, this allows the mod to check against blacklisted IP addresses and prevents Jesslem from making new accounts
4. When we were overun at times, we got more moderators
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 4:35 pm
by sigbowls
spam is pig and pigs are cute
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:40 am
by _ronzlo_
sigbowls wrote:spam is pig and pigs are cute
You mean like this?
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 2:44 am
by cyclopian
official DSF mod uniform^
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 3:15 am
by dickman69
ill mod 4 sick dubs m8
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 7:40 am
by nousd
cyclopodean for mod
(he sounds like he knows what he's doing whereas i don't give a shit)
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 11:19 am
by Draconis
OK. If it isn't bots who are the spammers. Then what if they are reading this... Right now. RIGHT.... NOW...
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 10:33 pm
by cyclopian
They almost certainly are just running scripts that autopost. Hybrid-spambots
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 10:42 pm
by CreamLord
^^^Man knows
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 12:16 pm
by nousd
man, there's heaps of Indian fakirs signing up at the moment
looks like the same mob we fought off last year.
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 5:24 pm
by badger
cyclopian wrote:They almost certainly are just running scripts that autopost. Hybrid-spambots
yeah exactly
there's real people behind them, so they're incredibly hard to block, but we're working on a new system to sort the problem out
i understand that it is frustrating but we're clearly a big target, and it's not easy to stop determined spammers without turning off registration entirely
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 10:00 pm
by nousd
looks ok this morning
well done mods
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 10:05 pm
by wobbles
yeh, not too shabby
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 5:14 am
by LGBT
yeh, not enough credit for gatineau here. big up
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 6:19 am
by mks
What are you talking about?
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 7:51 am
by nobody
lol imagine if they made him a mod, then everyone would be getting teary PMs
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:49 am
by Molzie
LGBT wrote:yeh, not enough credit for gatineau here. big up
Did you just copy my post from the 'Worst DSF Awards ever' thread?
Weirdo
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:19 pm
by LGBT
it feels like you're making swift leg movements amongst futuristic goons
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:49 pm
by Molzie
?
Re: General Forum under spam attack
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 3:13 am
by LGBT
jook is gateau big up futuristic goons yeh black forest