Sparda Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 http://www.hak5.org/forums/profile.php?mod...file&u=4171 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 10, 2006 Author Share Posted December 10, 2006 And how about: http://www.hak5.org/forums/profile.php?mod...file&u=4170 http://www.hak5.org/forums/profile.php?mod...file&u=4169 http://www.hak5.org/forums/profile.php?mod...file&u=4168 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Yes, we know there are millions of bot accounts all over this place, we're working on it. Every time a spam message is posted one of us dependable and ever-present mods comes and kills it, logs its name and IP and then they all get taken to a large room and sprayed with bullets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 10, 2006 Author Share Posted December 10, 2006 and: http://www.hak5.org/forums/profile.php?mod...file&u=4155 http://www.hak5.org/forums/profile.php?mod...file&u=4148 http://www.hak5.org/forums/profile.php?mod...file&u=4144 http://www.hak5.org/forums/profile.php?mod...file&u=4137 http://www.hak5.org/forums/profile.php?mod...file&u=4136 http://www.hak5.org/forums/profile.php?mod...file&u=4133 http://www.hak5.org/forums/profile.php?mod...file&u=4118 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Well done sparda, you can find bots in the user list. However theres fucking hundreds of them, I've deleted at least 100 of them this week and I have plenty more to do. We need to move to a different board software as using add-ons makes backups a problem. So yes, there's a lot of spammers, we know, we've spent a lot of time and effort keeping it at a manageable level. If you want to pay for a full time spam bouncer, start fund-raising because that's what its going to take to keep this place 100% spam free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 10, 2006 Author Share Posted December 10, 2006 pay? bah, humbug. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 we seem to be a some sort of list i've seen another forum who had the same spam threads I found here same.. so it's got to be some sort of bot list... and that would mean a simple change of forum software would solve the problems.. at least in the short term EDIT: I suggest SMF and a cool little mod http://mods.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=106 ... that would kill off most of the spam bots. And all you'd have to do is just edit it a bit to instead of asking for a password, ask "what do you trust?" and because the answer is everywhere it would kill spam bots but not humans.(who watch the show.) EDIT2: and a way to handel noobs http://mods.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=218 EDIT3: this is mod is damn cool for the questions forum http://mods.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 SMF looks good, as does Invision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateweb Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 you know we could just make every new registration subject to aprovel to limit spam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Thats a mission though... means having an admin on the forums 24/7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 11, 2006 Author Share Posted December 11, 2006 or at least two in every time zone on the planet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickarse Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Is there a reason why you haven't implemented the post I gave on captcha verification? At least that would help a bit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 More mods = database problems when backing up and restoring. So i'm hesitant to try it without FTP access. Plus, if you reply to a spam it gets deleted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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