Damn Spammers

submale01 · Post by **submale01** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:53 pm

Is there anything us genuine users and lovers of this site can do to help get rid of the spam.

I suppose a machine gun is out of the question.

Post by **dark** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:01 pm

In fact your post is spam too

Ok it's annoying for you and i understand that. But think about i am the one who have to delete the posts every day.

Post by **seraph0x** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:41 pm

Speaking of which: Did it stop yet, or are you just doing a great job at deleting it, dark?

blue_down_under · Post by **blue_down_under** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:07 am

Just incase you didnt realise, the firewall thread is spam, notice the links embedded in the comma and smiley at the end.

Post by **seraph0x** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:10 pm

Didn't notice that. Thanks. Has been removed.

Post by **dark** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:37 pm

seraph0x wrote:Speaking of which: Did it stop yet, or are you just doing a great job at deleting it, dark?

I don't know if i was the only one, but yeah i deleted a looooot of links

I hope this will stop now

bondageslave36 · Post by **bondageslave36** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 3:38 am

Please to enlarge penis... click here...

No no, just kidding... don't ban me!

Do we have any form of verification when someone signs up... like entering those random letters from a small image like some sites use for human verification? Do you have that activated or even have that option?

N0-Play · Post by **N0-Play** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:50 am

As it stands guests can post so you do not have to be a member. maybe it's time to change this so the spammers find it harder... but they will still get through

Post by **seraph0x** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:47 pm

bondageslave36 wrote:Do we have any form of verification when someone signs up... like entering those random letters from a small image like some sites use for human verification? Do you have that activated or even have that option?

Yes, right now we are using the standard PHPBB captcha. Unfortunately, this captcha is known to be broken, i.e. there are bots that can solve it. That's why I added our own little twist to it after the recent SPAM attacks. This seems to be enough to hold them off.

I also wrote a completely new and much harder to solve captcha, but there's two problems with that: The PHP version Milovana is running under doesn't completely support it yet. And it isn't always solvable by humans, which sucks. So I'll keep the old one for now.

N0-Play wrote:As it stands guests can post so you do not have to be a member. maybe it's time to change this so the spammers find it harder... but they will still get through

Well, the spammers who were here recently all took the time to register anyway. I'd say right now guest spamming isn't a problem.