Hooray, the new forum software and stricter rules look like they've killed off the spambots!
Now we just wait for them to catch up again.
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| Author: | stevesh [ Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Spam in forum |
Sorry about the amount of spam hitting us, particularly the stuff with the explicit images attached. I'm deleting it as fast as I can. I have no idea how the lowlives are managing to get in, there are several things in place to prevent spambots from registering. In the meantime, please try to ignore the rubbish and be understanding. Thanks, Steve |
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| Author: | stevesh [ Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam in forum |
Hooray, the new forum software and stricter rules look like they've killed off the spambots! Now we just wait for them to catch up again.
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| Author: | phoenix [ Wed May 20, 2009 11:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam in forum |
And ... it looks like they've caught up. 
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| Author: | stevesh [ Wed May 20, 2009 7:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam in forum |
So I see  I'll need to add one of those human questions... Unfortunately, it is apparently sweatchops of humans in China who are now being used to break captchas, so this might be difficult. |
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| Author: | dragonbreath [ Fri May 29, 2009 1:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam in forum |
Suggestion...pre-approve every new account. |
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| Author: | stevesh [ Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam in forum |
| Author: | jonsmart [ Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam in forum |
I know this won't help for the human spammers but I recently saw a "video" anti-spam feature that played an advertisement while you read the anti-spam characters. I don't know if that was because it was free or because it was monetized by the forum. Sorry I don't remember exactly where I saw it. Just a thought...I know you are trying hard to keep them out. I just joined and am poking around to see what all is here and came across this. Jon OK I just found it... it was nuCaptcha at http://www.nucaptcha.com/ Hope that helps. |
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| Author: | stevesh [ Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam in forum |
Most (all?) of the forum spam seems to come from the spam-farms in China -- all humans. Even custom spam questions dont stop them (though they stop the automated general scripts). What seems to be working now is blacklisting *@yahoo.* and *@hotmail.com email addresses. There are a few other domains in China to block but its working 
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| Author: | eknywork [ Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam in forum |
thank you very much for eliminating yahoo, and hotmail accounts - this will help a lot |
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| Author: | darkmite83 [ Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Spam in forum |
I used to have a hotmail and yahoo account and gosh there were tons of spams always entering into my inbox every single day. I have switched to gmail account now, less spam. keep up the good work steve!
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