Author Topic: Spam control effort (Read 23879 times)

Eric H. Jung · « **Reply #15 on:** September 04, 2006, 07:55:56 PM »

So far (5 days), this seems to have had a big effect. Lots of registrations, but not posts... I can only assume that means they never confirmed their email addresses?

Miquel 'Fire' Burns · « **Reply #16 on:** September 05, 2006, 03:25:50 AM »

Maybe.

Miquel 'Fire' Burns · « **Reply #17 on:** September 25, 2006, 01:39:07 PM »

And now the spam moves to Help and Support...

Eric H. Jung · « **Reply #18 on:** September 25, 2006, 03:45:48 PM »

They still have to confirm their email address, right? Why would the Help and Support forum matter?

Miquel 'Fire' Burns · « **Reply #19 on:** September 25, 2006, 04:30:58 PM »

There are spam posts still being made, it just moved to the Help and Support part of the forums. It seems there is someone whose job is to do a normal sign up at places with e-mail confirmation or something.

Miquel 'Fire' Burns · « **Reply #20 on:** October 23, 2006, 02:46:37 AM »

Some may have noticed that a certain Post Icon disappeared. This is just a test to see if the spam that appears here are based on some bot that is clueless to CSS. So any post I see using the Post Icon for a topic should be considered spam automatically. Yes, the smilie is still there. That is useful. We'll see how it goes.

Eric H. Jung · « **Reply #21 on:** October 23, 2006, 02:58:10 AM »

Where's the Post Icon? Oh, nevermind... you removed it.

Eric H. Jung · « **Reply #22 on:** October 23, 2006, 07:02:45 PM »

BTW, another idea is to place new users' posts in moderation until they have, say, two successful posts.

Miquel 'Fire' Burns · « **Reply #23 on:** October 23, 2006, 07:29:57 PM »

I haven't found a way to auto add new users yet. That's what I wanted to do, but can't find a way to do so.

Eric H. Jung · « **Reply #24 on:** November 30, 2006, 12:03:19 AM »

Spam posts are still getting through. I deleted three today.

I recently saw another approach at spam posting prevention: password-protecting the boards that receive the spam posts. The password can be publicly displayed in the description of the boards here and/or elsewhere on the site.

What do you think?

Miquel 'Fire' Burns · « **Reply #25 on:** November 30, 2006, 02:52:16 AM »

If we do that, maybe we can enable guest posting as well.

I like it. Let's see what others have to say.

tanstaafl · « **Reply #26 on:** November 30, 2006, 12:31:50 PM »

Ok with me...

Eric H. Jung · « **Reply #27 on:** November 30, 2006, 04:00:15 PM »

OK, which forum(s) do the spammers attack most?

Eric H. Jung · « **Reply #28 on:** November 30, 2006, 07:44:12 PM »

FYI, I've had to delete posts that are replies to existing threads. I think we need to turn on moderation of posting for thread replies, not just new threads.

Eric H. Jung · « **Reply #29 on:** December 01, 2006, 02:11:10 AM »

Ok, all forums are now password-protected. Also, replies (not just new threads) must be approved by a moderator.

PasswordMaker Forums · « **Reply #29 on:** December 01, 2006, 02:11:10 AM »

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