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Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:39 pm
by ParadoxJuice
#Rubber mark# wrote:The best way for small forums remains to create a custom anti-bot system. However simple it is, no one will be bothered to develop a bot specifically for us...
This works like magic, trust me.
Just add 'Type wagon backwards to prove that your human', then registration will only be accepted if you type nogaw.
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:40 pm
by Hunchman801
That's probably what I'll do later but right now the captcha is rather efficient.
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:51 pm
by spiraldoor
Hunchman801 wrote:That's probably what I'll do later but right now the captcha is rather efficient.
It’s not that efficient...
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:53 pm
by Cairnie
Ugh that shit today was nasty.
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:10 pm
by spiraldoor
I didn’t really look at it myself. I just reported it as soon as the images started to load. I’ve always hated porn. And we need to think of the children...
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:52 pm
by Rayfist
spiraldoor wrote:I didn’t really look at it myself. I just reported it as soon as the images started to load. I’ve always hated porn. And we need to think of the children...
OH MY GOD. The spambots seriously put up porn here!? That is JUST HORRIBLE! Ewwww. Well I thank the moderators for trying there hardest.
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:03 pm
by Raylex
Yeah, we are saving your soul everyday, stopping the porn in order to keep chaste our children and making a better world. Amen
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:19 pm
by Rsandee
God bless the mods!
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 8:45 am
by iHeckler9
StaceyW wrote:As many of us old timers know, we get loads of spambots - automated accounts which try and spam the shiznizz out of the forums, some of which can be hella nasty. Somehow they keep making it past our captcha system but we're looking for ways to at least reduce the problem on both the forums and the wiki.
Please do NOT respond to any of their posts. We [mods] try our best to flush them out before people end up seeing some of the really nasty crap they post, but if we're not online, then you can help by just reporting them with the Report [!] button.
Another type of bot that's been trying to spam the place up is the "cleverbot". They typically trace from India and it tries to pick up certain words in a topic to try and make their posts sound as human as possible, but half the time it still doesn't make sense. Again if you suspect that a member is one of these, please hit report so we can check out its IP and stuff.
Thanks for listening.
You can count on me.
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 9:11 am
by Adsolution
iHeckler9 wrote:
You can count on me.
K.
StaceyW wrote:
Please do NOT respond to any of their posts.
Réponds a tu messages
Réponds a tu messages
AaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:44 pm
by Mountain Goat
Raylex wrote:Yeah, we are saving your soul everyday, stopping the porn in order to keep chaste our children and making a better world. Amen
The statue I'm building in honor of you is almost finished!
Ugh, I want that guy who didn't know what the e-mail adress was back. He's not particularly a bot, but was damn awesome.
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:46 pm
by Jewish Candy
Thanks, mostwanted - you've prompted me to go back and read through that entire thread. I wish I'd been there...
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:49 pm
by Mountain Goat
Yeah, it's definitely worth the reading. One of my most pleasant forum experiences on here
Maybe I should, to show him he's still appreciated here, write an e-mail to hi.... Oh wait, that wouldn't work out well
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:00 pm
by Hedgehog673
Kay, I'll report if I see any more bots in the future.
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:13 pm
by iHeckler9
Where did Hunchman go? He sort of left for a few days and then the bots started showing up...coincidence? I'm only joking, but do you think his absence could have something to do with the sudden invasion?
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:18 pm
by spiraldoor
iHeckler9 wrote:Where did Hunchman go? He sort of left for a few days and then the bots started showing up...coincidence? I'm only joking, but do you think his absence could have something to do with the sudden invasion?
Hunch ‘sort of left for a few days’? I was under the impression that he had been absent for several months.
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:20 pm
by DesLife
As I said already, he's very busy.
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:07 pm
by iHeckler9
Those purple names at the bottom of the screen...I see [Bot]s and a [Spider]. What's a [Spider]?
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:41 pm
by DesLife
It's a bot too. Baidu's user-agent is named Baiduspider.
Re: Spambots and how to deal with them
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:48 pm
by neo
Simple. Feed them Spam. They'll go away. And then once they come back, you better have some spam left over!