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| Arg, spam attack! 😡 Any possibility that we could just install PHBB? We would have various Kaptchas, spam filtering, MUCH better forum features and be able to use TapaTalk. |
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| I did send an email to support about the latest spam attack, but it looks like Simon (or whoever got it) has missed a few that I didn't bring to their attention. This makes it 5 or 6 spammers in the last 6 months. |
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| If they just use askimet to filter forum posts before they're posted |
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| Your solution is phpBB? .... NO solution is EVER phpBB!! phpBB is NOT a solution, unless the question is "Would you like to pull out the last remaining hairs from your scalp?" I know that Monkey went Free, but doesn't the forum signup still require a valid BUID before entry? That used to be plenty enough to block out spambots. Could probably do with more admin/mods, though. That'd help. |
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| I agree phpBB would mean even more spam. What works great is using Akismet services, or add a "report this" button to forum posts so we can remove forum posts. |
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| I know that Monkey went Free, but doesn't the forum signup still require a valid BUID before entry? I just checked and there is no field for entering a BUID.One of those ask a question/answer things should stop spambots making an account. But it wouldn't stop a user from signing up to do a bit of phishing with "What's my website worth" and an external link to what appeared to be a site for a company that evaluates web sites, which happened about April and someone was not sharp enough to realise that someone was 'a phishing until I posted New user.... First post asking to check out this website.... I think not. Maybe my younger brother would... He was born yesterday. I think that the best solution to stop spammers is good old fashioned eye balls. I don't think anyone at BRL is paying a lot of attention to the forums. It could do with a few more moderators to keep an eye on things. If you do see any suspect posts; just send a message to support. The support page could also do with a simple anit-spambot question/answer just in case one is written to bombard the email server. |
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| Just informed support of another spam attack. That's the second one so far this this month. |
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| I was told by Simonh that an additional spam preventing system has been added to the site. Obviously, manual attacks are hard to track, but I hope we'll see this issue a let less often in the future. |
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| Another one is spamming all the forum... Question: it's is possible to add a button/link to consider a specific user (and his/her posts) as spam? Technically the system will be based on other user (already registered): when they found something strange (and there are very few doubts when you find a spam-message) they click on the link/button. The server takes a 'counter'... if the count is greater than X the user's post suspected of spam are 'hidden' and BRL/site mantainer is informed to check the thing. |
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| I see that the spam bots are still at it. Two days in a row. |
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| And here we go again. |
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| Just fired off an email to Mr H to let him know. I think by now he must be getting a little tired of the Monty Python jokes by now ;-) |
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| Mr. H???? |
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| Simon. I think his surname starts with an H. I can't remember who's who at BRL any more. |
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| Ok. No I got it :-) |
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| I wouldn't say that I was suspicious, but when did the the site get a Russian mirror? www.monkeycoder.ru |
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| long long time ago. Nothing wrong with it. |
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| I think some kind of CAPTCHA is required before signup and posting :) |
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| I think some kind of CAPTCHA is required before signup and posting :) I did mention it to Simon about using a garbled CAPTCHA during sign up when reporting the spam attacks. |
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| I wonder what goes on in the minds of these indian spammers. Do they really think we care about this crap? |
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| I think this has more to do with getting a high ranking on search engines. Anyone informed Simon yet? I'm usually awake at the time when the first of the spam starts. |
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| The 'good' thing about this probably is that Monkey is linked a lot from other sites... We started to get a lot of spam on our forums and only CAPTCHA was not working to well (unless it was almost unreadable). We eventually had to add questions. |
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| searched for gui: http://www.monkey-x.com/Community/_search.php?bbs=&forum=&terms=gui&method=simple&case=no&user= |
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