Spambots and how to deal with them

DesLife · Post by **DesLife** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:21 pm

New users never read stickies...

Robotic Teensie · Post by **Robotic Teensie** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:32 pm

Hmm... how about this:

When a new user account is created, redirect them to a welcome page with links to "Please introduce yourself here" and "All you need to know about Pirate-Community".

I have no idea if that would be easy to implement; if it's very difficult then obviously don't bother. But if it's relatively easy to do, it might be nice.

DesLife · Post by **DesLife** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:39 pm

Nah that's easy, but that wouldn't change much.

Xenon · Post by **Xenon** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:26 pm

Yeah, it wouldn't do anything in the same way as displaying the code of conduct does nothing.

Adsolution · Post by **Adsolution** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:06 pm

"If you are a spambot, do not post."

Master · Post by **Master** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:14 pm

The spambots seem to be hitting rather hard today, some chinese bot got in.

Haruka · Post by **Haruka** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:22 pm

I guess they like to reproduce in the end of Summer.

Cairnie · Post by **Cairnie** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:54 pm

It's quite frankly been horrific all week.

Post by **Hunchman801** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:52 am

I altered some settings, hopefully we'll get less of them.

The Hanged Man · Post by **The Hanged Man** » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:47 pm

That's odd, in the past few months I know of two other forums (one of which I'm an admin on) that have had a spambot infestation.

Maybe they're getting organized!

Comment ? · Post by **Comment ?** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 3:56 pm

I believe you are actually one of them.

Rayrobi · Post by **Rayrobi** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 12:08 pm

Don't deal to soon, let's just see what he'll do in the future.

Manfred · Post by **Manfred** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:26 am

Is it possible to get captcha for phpBB? That'd probably filter most of the bots when they're registering.

Master · Post by **Master** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:42 am

Admins, save us!
The Spam Bots are hitting hard!

Manfred wrote:Is it possible to get captcha for phpBB? That'd probably filter most of the bots when they're registering.

They use Capcha, but bots have gotten smarter and have resumed their bombardment.

Manfred · Post by **Manfred** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:47 am

Master4lyf1 wrote:They use Capcha, but bots have gotten smarter and have resumed their bombardment.

Okay, I didn't remember if there was one. For some reason phpBB forums always has this spambot issue, more than other forum softwares, as I've seen.

Haruka · Post by **Haruka** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 2:26 pm

The only thing we ask is that if you see a bot post, please report it by clicking over the triangle with the exclamation mark and follow the instructions.

That's enough to bring us attention so no need to contact us directly or using other topics to bring that up. Members that reply to bots can get penalized for that.

Post by **Hunchman801** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:55 pm

We've been using captchas for ages but they're useless now that bots have become better than humans at solving them. We are, on the other hand, also using a much more efficient solution which prevents almost 99 bots out of 100 from registering. So, no worries, everything is under control.

Master · Post by **Master** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:51 pm

Bots are hitting hard today, 'bout 10 hit the off-topic area.

Adsolution · Post by **Adsolution** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:25 am

Lotta bots down that rawd ya.

The Hanged Man · Post by **The Hanged Man** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 1:03 am

Comment ? wrote:I believe you are actually one of them.

Beep boop, oh bollocks discovered! ("Runs" away making 'clink clank' noises with his metal footsteps.)
By the way sorry for the late reply, I'm an idiot and I forgot to activate the email notifications.

Rayman Pirate-Community

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