Invasion of the Spambots

Started by Lord of the Flying Guinea-Potatoes, April 06, 2015, 09:09:09 AM

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Lord of the Flying Guinea-Potatoes

More spambots! When will it end? I reccomend some sort of captcha or other software to prevent people(or bots rather) such as Natalie100 from invading the forums. Please Piotr?

Ekann1

Unfortunately, check a few threads down. We already talked about this and nothing happened...

Kaylesh

Thing is, captcha is already being used. Other methods seem to be not to be expected. Piotr, please correct me if I'm in error (I sincerely hope I am though, got this feeling, but I will not expand on it, since I have no evidence to back it up)

Lord of the Flying Guinea-Potatoes

Is there anything we could do about a natalie100? check the help section, she has created 10+ threads that only consist of a website link anf clickbait title.

Kaylesh

I reported to the mods with the suggestion to ban Natalie, since she seems to be a more active spammer. That should help until the next wave. Thing is, we seem to have been marked by a spammer as easy access for some reason. Dunno what mods can do though.


Hays413

Ain't much to do I'm afraid. Deal with it when it happens. I personally hate getting 100 emails from everybody reporting these. So when I do get them, I come in here and clean .poo. up. That's about the best we can do, any more is just a waste of resources.

MuggyWuggy

I mean we could all just ignore the spam like most ignore the fun stuff forum

InfinitiveDivinity

Quote from: Hays413 on April 06, 2015, 11:09:11 AM
Ain't much to do I'm afraid. Deal with it when it happens. I personally hate getting 100 emails from everybody reporting these. So when I do get them, I come in here and clean .poo. up. That's about the best we can do, any more is just a waste of resources.
Hays! How long have you been back bro?

Hays413

Quote from: InfinitiveDivinity on April 06, 2015, 06:45:48 PM
Quote from: Hays413 on April 06, 2015, 11:09:11 AM
Ain't much to do I'm afraid. Deal with it when it happens. I personally hate getting 100 emails from everybody reporting these. So when I do get them, I come in here and clean .poo. up. That's about the best we can do, any more is just a waste of resources.
Hays! How long have you been back bro?

Lurking around for a month or so. Not contributing haha. Just deleting spam bot .poo..

Pi

Quote from: Kaylesh on April 06, 2015, 09:31:29 AM
Thing is, captcha is already being used. Other methods seem to be not to be expected. Piotr, please correct me if I'm in error (I sincerely hope I am though, got this feeling, but I will not expand on it, since I have no evidence to back it up)
Should we look into using no captcha?http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-robot-introducing-no-captcha.html?m=1

Ekann1

It could be a person making the accounts and posting even now. A different kind of captcha (or lack of) might not help.

I still think (even though I don't know if it's possible) that people shouldn't be allowed to post links in their first few posts.

Heats Flamesman

Hiya! I just completed a free internet survey that lets me get money for doing nothing! It was only 10 minutes! Completely free!

/s

blackychan1

Quote from: Ponyboy Curtis on April 07, 2015, 11:10:08 AM
Hiya! I just completed a free internet survey that lets me get money for doing nothing! It was only 10 minutes! Completely free!

/s
..........Spam?......... Or sarcasm?.,.,...

Pi

Quote from: blackychan1 on April 07, 2015, 12:19:39 PM
Quote from: Ponyboy Curtis on April 07, 2015, 11:10:08 AM
Hiya! I just completed a free internet survey that lets me get money for doing nothing! It was only 10 minutes! Completely free!

/s
..........Spam?......... Or sarcasm?.,.,...
I'm going to assume sarcasm, because I saw coherent speech in the welcome section from Ponyboy Cutis