General Forum under spam attack

mks · Post by **mks** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:26 am

It's like 10 pages deep right now. Riddles, you posted in a thread about it. Do you have the authority to delete those threads? Are you guys using blacklists or whitelists? I know there are a lot of false positive issues which take some administrative effort. I tried looking up how phpbb handles these things. It sounds like you did finally enable captcha? I think the idea of janitors is a good one.

cyclopian · Post by **cyclopian** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:43 am

I just went through the sign up process again just to see whats up and we apparently have a pretty decent "capcha" (selecting black vinyls from transparent ones) . This leads me to believe that the spammers have fully busted this type of capcha. Time to move >>> it seems.

I have a feeling moving fwd tho requires a lot of work and money that "we" don't really have.

I used to moderate a skateboarding forum and it got fully bunned by this same type of thing. I'm just confused that it only hits general from what I can tell.

mks · Post by **mks** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:55 am

It seems to be isolated to the general forum at the moment. As far as the time and money, that is why some janitors or some more mods would be a good idea. And start implementing some blacklists for issues such as this one. The mods can see what domains all of this spam is coming from.

mks · Post by **mks** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:59 am

That's what I'm talking about, fucking bots...

mason666 · Post by **mason666** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 9:34 am

Wouldn't a word captcha be better than and image one? Surely its easier for a computer to see black vinyl than words?

_Agu_ · Post by **_Agu_** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:01 am

They are gone again..

Riddles · Post by **Riddles** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:24 am

We delete them as fast as we can. From what i've heard from the admins, it appears its actual people signing up to the forum, so the captcha doesn't work. A solution is being worked on, we had closed registrations to stop them but everyone was complaining about no registrations being open.

mason666 · Post by **mason666** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:20 am

it'sm ok u can close registrations again now i have made an account

butter_man · Post by **butter_man** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:37 am

Riddles wrote:We delete them as fast as we can. From what i've heard from the admins, it appears its actual people signing up to the forum, so the captcha doesn't work. A solution is being worked on, we had closed registrations to stop them but everyone was complaining about no registrations being open.

If theres anyhthing I can do to help let us know.

cyclopian · Post by **cyclopian** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:55 am

maybe a simple question about dubstep for the registration? i.e how many gun fingers per minute is dubstep: 140.

also, setting a hard limit on how many topics a user can post per hour

CreamLord · Post by **CreamLord** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 12:06 pm

That janitor idea sounds pretty good tbh, just choose like 5-10 responsible active users

wilson · Post by **wilson** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 1:15 pm

What is the idea behind this kind of spam? Does it actually generate income for anyone in the end?

_Agu_ · Post by **_Agu_** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 1:26 pm

wilson wrote:What is the idea behind this kind of spam? Does it actually generate income for anyone in the end?

Don't know, but there's 2€ (about 2.50$)/minute phone numbers for fortune-tellers in newspapers too, at least over here in Finland, and those ads aren't cheap, compared to spamming which is free.

mason666 · Post by **mason666** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 1:30 pm

wait so if i become a janitor could i delete ehbes' account?

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 1:38 pm

no
but you could scrape the shit off his loo

nobody · Post by **nobody** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:42 pm

just give some of the regular, mature members the ability to move threads to some hidden sub forum and monitor them closely. right?

Molzie · Post by **Molzie** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 7:32 pm

CreamLord wrote:responsible active users

nobody wrote:mature members

lul

jaydot · Post by **jaydot** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 7:32 pm

THE BEGINNING OF THE END

sixs · Post by **sixs** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 7:40 pm

It's leaking into SNH

nobody · Post by **nobody** » Sun Jan 04, 2015 12:28 am

Molzie wrote:
CreamLord wrote:responsible active users

nobody wrote:mature members
lul

Im sure some of these people are trustworthy enough thankslist.php?sk=e&sd=d

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