Forum Bots.........

Post by **ForM** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:08 am

Lets say I had a forum I ran. And even though it gets little traffic, it gets spamed up by bot postings, such as Save money and get a new loan ........ various and abusive.

So If I know th urls' end in .ur , how could one block any posters from .ur that obviously just let a bot program spam a forum?

Now when I say spam, I mean anywhere from 1 to 100 posts a day. It's just relentless and it really needs to be brought under some kind of control.

Tips?

Post by **Captain** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:54 am

If you're using the garbled numbers and letters image for human verification, then it's obviously the work of people signing up spam accounts.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:23 am

Well they wouldn't be manually registering if it's a forum that see little traffic.

If you're using a certain forum, I'd check to see what they have to disable this.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:27 am

I guess raw finally broke down and installed one on this forum. :icon14:

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:43 am

FragaGeddon wrote:I guess raw finally broke down and installed one on this forum. :icon14:

awesome 4 minute revelation.

Post by **Survivor** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:55 pm

Like this one?

At least these bots include jokes before spamming the links

Post by **^misantropia^** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:11 pm

Captain Mazda wrote:If you're using the garbled numbers and letters image for human verification, then it's obviously the work of people signing up spam accounts.

*giggles*

It's called a CAPTCHA. @Form: what forum software are you using?

Post by **Captain** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:29 pm

Sorry, I forgot :icon30:

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:36 am

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
FragaGeddon wrote:I guess raw finally broke down and installed one on this forum. :icon14:
awesome 4 minute revelation.

Well after looking at this thread I realized we haven't seen bots on this site for awhile. So I decided to click the register button to see what was going on.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:53 am

FragaGeddon wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
FragaGeddon wrote:I guess raw finally broke down and installed one on this forum. :icon14:
awesome 4 minute revelation.
Well after looking at this thread I realized we haven't seen bots on this site for awhile. So I decided to click the register button to see what was going on.

they still appear in GD, but not as often. i move the thread to A&M as soon as i can.

Post by **ForM** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:01 am

^misantropia^ wrote:
Captain Mazda wrote:If you're using the garbled numbers and letters image for human verification, then it's obviously the work of people signing up spam accounts.
*giggles*

It's called a CAPTCHA. @Form: what forum software are you using?

phpBB

Post by **^misantropia^** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:50 am

Off the top of my head: General admin

Configuration

Enable visual confirmation

Post by **LBt1st** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:28 pm

Any commonly used board like phpBB is going to be familiar to bots. One trick is to make your registration page nonstandard.

Even with the captcha my board still got spammed. Once I added a simple question to my registration the bots ceased being a problem.