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Nov 21, 2011 - 14:11:37 (13y 4d)
Nov 21, 2011 - 14:11:37 (13y 4d)
You now need at least 2 points to be allowed to post in the forums.
I hope this will stop the spam until we have a better solution (captcha?)
More suggestions are welcome.
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I hope this will stop the spam until we have a better solution (captcha?)
More suggestions are welcome.
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RE: Spam
Nov 21, 2011 - 14:20:20 (13y 4d)
Nov 21, 2011 - 14:20:20 (13y 4d)
Well, I think this is a good idea.
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RE: Spam
Nov 21, 2011 - 14:25:38 (13y 4d)
Nov 21, 2011 - 14:25:38 (13y 4d)
Thank you very much for the tedious work of removing the posts.
I was afk, so i was suprised someone took it off already
Of course spam can also happen with the 2 points, so nice to know that some others can fight it too.
Thanks!
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I was afk, so i was suprised someone took it off already
Of course spam can also happen with the 2 points, so nice to know that some others can fight it too.
Thanks!
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RE: Spam
Nov 21, 2011 - 14:33:00 (13y 4d)
Nov 21, 2011 - 14:33:00 (13y 4d)
Fortunately I was'nt alone. It started at 9 am or something like that but someone else already removed the posts. I was able to clean up the forums at around 11 am and this midday. Having a smartphone is quite convenient...
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RE: Spam
Nov 21, 2011 - 16:34:26 (13y 4d)
Nov 21, 2011 - 16:34:26 (13y 4d)
A minimum point level should help. I doubt a spam bot will bother to solve a challenge
If that isn't enough, I've been pretty happy with Akismet in the past. It does a pretty good job at identifying spam. It is mostly associated with blogs but the API itself seems pretty indifferent to that fact, and the API is key is very reasonably priced.
If that isn't enough, I've been pretty happy with Akismet in the past. It does a pretty good job at identifying spam. It is mostly associated with blogs but the API itself seems pretty indifferent to that fact, and the API is key is very reasonably priced.
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RE: Spam
Nov 23, 2011 - 06:23:27 (13y 3d)
Nov 23, 2011 - 06:23:27 (13y 3d)
They moved to PMs, using at least user "fancyfancy". No score limit for those apparently.
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RE: Spam
Nov 23, 2011 - 06:31:32 (13y 3d)
Nov 23, 2011 - 06:31:32 (13y 3d)
EDIT:
It is possible to configure PM limits by score.
I have now set it to 1 as base, and +1 for each 1000 points.
Sadly, a value of 0 for base seems to disable the restrictive function completely.
So a user with 1000 points will be able to send two pm per day.
A user with 0 points will be able to send one pm per day.
Additionally i have blacklisted the email that was used by the bots to signup and marked all the users from this email provider as deleted.
The affected email provider is @163.com
Thanks for the notice.
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It is possible to configure PM limits by score.
I have now set it to 1 as base, and +1 for each 1000 points.
Sadly, a value of 0 for base seems to disable the restrictive function completely.
So a user with 1000 points will be able to send two pm per day.
A user with 0 points will be able to send one pm per day.
Additionally i have blacklisted the email that was used by the bots to signup and marked all the users from this email provider as deleted.
The affected email provider is @163.com
Thanks for the notice.
gizmore
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RE: Spam
Nov 23, 2011 - 16:55:24 (13y 2d)
Nov 23, 2011 - 16:55:24 (13y 2d)
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The affected email provider is @163.com
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RE: Spam
Nov 25, 2011 - 13:25:15 (13y 22h)
Nov 25, 2011 - 13:25:15 (13y 22h)
Thanks for having fixed the problem quickly.
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RE: Spam
Nov 25, 2011 - 22:36:25 (13y 12h)
Nov 25, 2011 - 22:36:25 (13y 12h)
Just got PM spam from "discountgoose".
1 message per day per user means they only need to register 10.000 accounts to send out 10.000 spam messages per day
sigh..
1 message per day per user means they only need to register 10.000 accounts to send out 10.000 spam messages per day
sigh..
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