I just wanted to thank our superuser Trazan for cleaning out the spammers/flammers.
His work is appreciated.
A Public Thank You to Trazan
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Thank You!
I check the forum 3-4 times daily, cleaning out all junk.
Cleaning out the spam is not too much of hard work - adding a way to block all those spammers seems to be harder.
I believe someone did post infos about how Administrator could add
a feature to clean out the worst spammers automatically. Great to see such feature beeing added...in the meantime; Im cleaning out all threads from spam, but cant sadly delete users sofar!
Thanx all!
I check the forum 3-4 times daily, cleaning out all junk.
Cleaning out the spam is not too much of hard work - adding a way to block all those spammers seems to be harder.
I believe someone did post infos about how Administrator could add
a feature to clean out the worst spammers automatically. Great to see such feature beeing added...in the meantime; Im cleaning out all threads from spam, but cant sadly delete users sofar!
Thanx all!
Bumping a old thread and ask for our users to help out;
As is now, I clean out this forum serevral times a day, still alot of spamming users keep registering.
Not admining this site, I just ask for some good pointers to prevent autoregistrers from robots, could be addons or just Whitepapers for a PHPBBS.
As is now, I clean out this forum serevral times a day, still alot of spamming users keep registering.
Not admining this site, I just ask for some good pointers to prevent autoregistrers from robots, could be addons or just Whitepapers for a PHPBBS.
Permanent Solution
The absolute hands down best solution for this problem is something called Textual Confirmation:
http://bbantispam.com/tc/
I had this same problem on a forum I administer and this eliminated it completely. When users are signing up, instead of using the visual letter recognition scheme (which has been broken long ago) it asks a simple question like "What is the company that made the Commodore 64?" No spam bot can get past this kind of protection.
BTW Once you have this in place you should delete all the spambot users, otherwise Google will push your ranking down if they see spam web-links.
http://bbantispam.com/tc/
I had this same problem on a forum I administer and this eliminated it completely. When users are signing up, instead of using the visual letter recognition scheme (which has been broken long ago) it asks a simple question like "What is the company that made the Commodore 64?" No spam bot can get past this kind of protection.
BTW Once you have this in place you should delete all the spambot users, otherwise Google will push your ranking down if they see spam web-links.
I just cant see so many spammers are going after this particular board.
I run a couple forums, one of which has a PR7 and hundreds of posts a day. That board would have some benefit for spammers as they would get both a good PR transfer and a good number of click-thrus. But this board has neither, so why on earth do spammers keep posting?
Most webmasters understand the benefit of links, which is often why I include at least one of my websites in my signature at every forum I post. But there is a least some relationship in order for the link to receive any PR benefit.
Why on earth would spammers think linking to a porn site from a vintage gaming site would help them?
And even if it did help them, by the time they started to get a PR benefit, someone would have reported their site and it would be taken down.
I run a couple forums, one of which has a PR7 and hundreds of posts a day. That board would have some benefit for spammers as they would get both a good PR transfer and a good number of click-thrus. But this board has neither, so why on earth do spammers keep posting?
Most webmasters understand the benefit of links, which is often why I include at least one of my websites in my signature at every forum I post. But there is a least some relationship in order for the link to receive any PR benefit.
Why on earth would spammers think linking to a porn site from a vintage gaming site would help them?
And even if it did help them, by the time they started to get a PR benefit, someone would have reported their site and it would be taken down.
I think it's all automated bots, so they post links on everything without considering the topic of a particular forum.
One of the most important things for them is to create new users with a web link in their profile in the hopes that it pushes their ranking up on Google.
One of the most important things for them is to create new users with a web link in their profile in the hopes that it pushes their ranking up on Google.
Read the story of Commodore in print.
Did you install Textual Confirmation? I wasn't joking when I said that would solve your problems.
Read the story of Commodore in print.
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I e-mailed the administrator 4 days ago, but I still haven't heard back from him... I've been moderating the BBS message board, so I could probably handle doing it for the entire forum. But... without the "power", there's nothing I can do.Trazan wrote:Im leaving this forum as moderator. Anyone willing to help out, msg Administrator. Ive had it!
-Andrew
Thats OK, I emailed him a million times already and lack of replies made me leave the active part as moderator. Spammers Ohoy 
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wiskow wrote:I e-mailed the administrator 4 days ago, but I still haven't heard back from him... I've been moderating the BBS message board, so I could probably handle doing it for the entire forum. But... without the "power", there's nothing I can do.Trazan wrote:Im leaving this forum as moderator. Anyone willing to help out, msg Administrator. Ive had it!
-Andrew