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Forum Bots.........
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:08 am
by ForM
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?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:54 am
by Captain
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:23 am
by FragaGeddon
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:27 am
by FragaGeddon
I guess raw finally broke down and installed one on this forum. :icon14:
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:43 am
by +JuggerNaut+
FragaGeddon wrote:I guess raw finally broke down and installed one on this forum. :icon14:
awesome 4 minute revelation.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:55 pm
by Survivor
Like
this one?
At least these bots include jokes before spamming the links
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:11 pm
by ^misantropia^
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?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:29 pm
by Captain
Sorry, I forgot :icon30:
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:36 am
by FragaGeddon
+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.
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:53 am
by +JuggerNaut+
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.
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:01 am
by ForM
^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
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:50 am
by ^misantropia^
Off the top of my head: General admin
Configuration
Enable visual confirmation
Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 6:28 pm
by LBt1st
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.