I'm gonna keep this short.

If you see a spam thread, report it, but DO NOT be moronic and post in it.

Ummm... Mr. Lynk, how will one be able to identify a spam thread?

Damn, I should have known!

I won't post next time. That is, if I can somehow find out if the thread is spam or not. :S

Either private message darky and/or myself about the thread with a link to it, or click the ! mark shown on the red bar on the spam post or thread starter.

And it is pretty damn easy to figure out which posts are spam threads... the user has just joined, it's their first post and they're always trying to sell something... it actually isn't that hard.

*raises hand* Imma moron!

Eni, spam threads usually sell those ... porno stuff.

I kinda stopped posting in them XD
Although when i reported one i pm'd it i found the report button later its so small XD

All I did was Posted in it so everyone else knows that it been reported, not my fault someone eelse decided to post in it

It's all your fault.

The reason I don't want people posting in spam threads is because it ends up being deleted from the database, along with your posts which creates a gap of sorts... it's very bad to have those once the database gets very large.

I don't know why they try posting things here, I bought into one of those enlarge your penis ads from a post a while ago and I still don't have a throbbing monster o' fun. False advertising is what it is.

And I thought there was more the One Mod and One Admin? If Darky and Lynk are the only two what happen to the rest?

Lynk, they're not bots, are they? A lot of Invision Boards I'm at and even other type of boards have been getting hit by a lot of advertising bots lately.

Kiai Wrote:I don't know why they try posting things here, I bought into one of those enlarge your penis ads from a post a while ago and I still don't have a throbbing monster o' fun. False advertising is what it is.

What the hell are you on and can you share please?

You Know what... I think the US Military bigwigs must be putting something into the Marines Water supply

so anyway, there's a way for filter them? I don't know how the bots get past the image verification, they use a sort of OCR now? or they aren't bots?

is really getting annoying now, we get more of those than new members.

They may be bots... I mean there is always a way to get by security, even those image verification thingies...

But on the other hand they could be people who get payed like 1 cent per forum that they post these things in or some crap like that...

Lynk Former Wrote:But on the other hand they could be people who get payed like 1 cent per forum that they post these things in or some crap like that...

*sighs* then it can't be done much

Quote:The reason I don't want people posting in spam threads is because it ends up being deleted from the database, along with your posts which creates a gap of sorts... it's very bad to have those once the database gets very large.

can you hide them rather than delete them?

Well we have 81 members who are banned, how many out of those posted spam?

I love spam threads! Drinks all around!



Oh....wrong thread, eh?

Well, on a similar note, I'll report one if I see it mate.

Quote:They may be bots... I mean there is always a way to get by security, even those image verification thingies...

*pokes Lynk* Yoo said "thingies"... *_*

Yeah they do get past the image verification...thingy. Darn programmers. Oops, I am one! >.> *hides*

Lynk Former Wrote:They may be bots... I mean there is always a way to get by security, even those image verification thingies...

But on the other hand they could be people who get payed like 1 cent per forum that they post these things in or some crap like that...

Yeah, you can tell not all are bots since some of them have valid Yahoo email. Then there's bots with @[Enter site here] they're advertising for. Not sure, but bots use the same post icon. You know those icons you can selected from just people where you type messages.

God damn Spammers, Lynks how do you banned them so fast, we're getting the same ones here now on Astrogate....

Hmmm... really gonna have to do somethin about this...

Dear God I think these Spammers are going to go overdrive this christmas season as all the Mod's are off for the day or so...

You're not the only one annoyed. Every time I see a new sign up now I straight away look up their address used to sign up and ban it if it's an obvious spam address.

I hate to say this but...Lynk I think you should turn off the new sign up option for the time being until you upgrade the forum and make an announcement on the site and inform other potential new sign ups that aren't spam bots.

Just before i read Darkys post i thought the same thing in part XD
You could just stop sign ups although that has bad points to >_<

I don't think is THAT annoying for do that...

disabling to newmembers the ability for create new threads for some time? (edit:somebody check the grammar for me please)
though we might get spam posts instead *just coughing some ideas*

if you can put names into be be blocked Lynk here yet another Advanced spammer

sickmorrr

From what I'm hearing around the net, a lot of sites are getting hit more often by spambots, the frequency of these incidents is alarmingly high which means that traditional security practices have been mastered and overcome... which means nothing we do at the moment to prevent these bots from finding us. Even so, I still have 2 more updates to make to the forum, it's running 3.6.2 right now and should be running 3.6.4... i'll update the forum on the weekend.

Can you quote your sources of this information please?

I may want to take this to my other Forum leader....

Yeah, we were having the same prob at the game developer site I mod at. That's until the webmaster switched boards. Now its barely a trickle that get through (maybe 1 every 2 weeks). Which leads me to believe its just a real person manually doing it now instead of bots.

I get one or two daily or one or two every other day on the site I'm a part of the staff. I found we were getting hit by [Enter Word]@web.de before banned that email. Yeah, they able to break the security code you need to enter and email verification. Not limited to a certain type of board either. Invision and vBulletin been getting hit to my knowledge.

Lynk Former Wrote:Either private message darky and/or myself about the thread with a link to it, or click the ! mark shown on the red bar on the spam post or thread starter.

And it is pretty damn easy to figure out which posts are spam threads... the user has just joined, it's their first post and they're always trying to sell something... it actually isn't that hard.

Its also easy to spot them by their usernames, some are just blatently obvious

For Example: http://forums.thecrisiscenter.net/member.php?u=339
This is so blatently a bot its pathetic

It just you suspect them even before some of them post, I had fifty Spam bot by URL links in the profile then by post last time I did a check

I don't understand your sentence, Hawk <.<

Ooooh maybe Hawk's a spam bot!!!

kyubichan Wrote:I don't understand your sentence, Hawk <.<

Ooooh maybe Hawk's a spam bot!!!

That.... would explain quite a lot

We all thought he was a bot at first.

If I remember correctly, the dude revived like 20 old topics when he first joined.

Damatee Wrote:Its also easy to spot them by their usernames, some are just blatently obvious

For Example: http://forums.thecrisiscenter.net/member.php?u=339
This is so blatently a bot its pathetic

Beep beep beep? *whistles*

*runs*

Wait that better not be kookie...

^_^

awww, but I want to get a virus with my home equity loan....