Forum registration closed temporary

Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:11 pm

We are being mass bombarded by idiotic no-brain educationless spammers so as a temporary fix I have disabled new registrations.

If you want to register just send me an email and I can create you an account.

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richardj · Post by **richardj** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:29 am

WOW!

Did you tick someone off that you're undergoing all these different attacks?

Oh well--you don't have anything better to do anyways-----

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:57 pm

Is it really that bad?

I dont see much spam on the boards other then that smokes one

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:59 pm

Yeah I deleted like 10 yesterday

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:03 pm

Ahh ic but when are you planning on opening the registration up again lol

Would suck if this topic got lost in the forum and you forgot it was closed cuz then we would be out of new members for a while

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:45 pm

I'll probably re open it in a few days. There just seems to be a sudden huge influx on spammers lately. This is everywhere, not sure here.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:02 am

You Might like to Ban the latest member - Moscow based spam - Joined several other forums too (I banned it on mine).

( dsfewrhas )

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:34 pm

Yeah I get tons of those random character names per day, those ones don't actually post stuff half the time, they just register to register, I don't really understand why. But I'll ban that particular one as a precaution.

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:04 pm

what gives, it seems like every forum on the net is having this problem. Is there a fix for this? I had to disable the forum registration on my mothers website because of people spaming it with porn and sex drugs. Keep in mind this is a forum for retired women who make clothes for their grand kids.

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:11 pm

Yeah its freaken ridiculous. But in a way its good news it means our battle against spammers through email is working, and we, as normal people, are winning. Now to work on forum based anti spam systems. I think what would be a great idea is something like RBLs but for forums. When I finally finish SBBS I should setup some kind of forum based RBL system. Perhaps look into what it takes to create a RFC and actually make it a standard. Then forum systems like vB could implement it too.

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:40 pm

i never thought of it like that, thats a really good idea. I did see on another forum, (cant remember which) they used 3 of the php generated random image validators for their registration. I wonder if that worked.

PS i finally got my sig working again.

I strongly dont recomend surrpass hosting to anyone, they will actually edit your code and swear they didnt.

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Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:24 pm

That might of been mine actually.

http://www.uovalor.com/forum does that. It actually DOES work. Spammers are just THAT stupid. Its like those kindergarden things "circle the object thats different" and you have two squares and a circle. Spammers can't figure that out.

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