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Springheel

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You've probably noticed we're being hit with a lot of spam at the moment. We're trying to track down the cause; in the meantime, try to ignore it.

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greebo

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I just activated the topic moderation feature for this specific forum. All new topics will have to be approved by me from this point on, until we resolved the issue with all these spam accounts.

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Tels

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TTLG started getting hit by a lot of spam lately too, they forced registrations to be approved by an admin while they figured it out as well. Wonder why this is happening so much lately.

 

Probably because this software got an update and a lot of exposure lately:

 

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/02/1415205

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greebo

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I removed almost 200 bogus accounts today - it's possible that I hit a false positive among all those accounts and I might have deleted a legitimate account. I apologise if that happened - please re-register in this case (and maybe drop me a PM so that I won't delete your account a second time).

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I removed almost 200 bogus accounts today - it's possible that I hit a false positive among all those accounts and I might have deleted a legitimate account. I apologise if that happened - please re-register in this case (and maybe drop me a PM so that I won't delete your account a second time).

 

We got more spam accounts in the meantime, like http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showuser=2863 It seems the spammers register as fast as they can :(

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Yeah, I don't even try to keep up, otherwise I spend half an hour each day in the Admin Control Panel. I'll do another cleansweep next week.

 

is there anything we can do to stop them from subscribing (that we don't do already?)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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I'm assuming we send newcomers an email with a link that they have to click to activate the account? If so, can we modify that email so instead of the link we put some modified description of the url that only a human can type in? (for now) eg,

 

Please construct and type the below address into your web browser to activate your account...

 

You need to add .html to the word activate...

 

Then add .net to modetwo

 

Then add the first to the second with a / in between.

 

 

OK, needs more thought than that but hopefully it might work?

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That's a pretty good idea Fidcal, keeps out the robot spammer programs AND the idiots!

 

:D:laugh:

 

I wouldn't make it as complicated but a "custom" captcha like "add the word orange at the end of the url" or "type orange" in the box next to the captcha would foil the robots. Hopefully we are not spammed by cheap chinese guys or something :o

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Need more target practice greebo?

 

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Springheel

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I switched on topic moderation again

 

Topic or new account moderation? Either way, there are two new spam posts this morning.

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