Party107 Forums
General => Help => Topic started by: Borislav on January 23, 2008, 01:21:01 pm
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hi. I see some spam bots are registering on the forum, and continue spamming it with "free mp3 download sites", "porn sites" or whatever. Thats pretty bad for the forums. Mark can u do something to restrict these bots?
Thanks in advance.
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It's unfortunate that they are doing this. There is a captcha upon registration to try to prevent automated bots from registering. New members are also required to verify their email address before they are allowed to post.
Despite those efforts, a few spam threads do make it through daily. Aside from a stronger captcha in possible future forum upgrades I think deleting them and banning the user as soon as they are seen is the best way, which is what we've been doing. Having new threads appear on IRC helps this as well so we see them sooner.
If there are any threads we miss, anyone please feel free to report them and they will be promptly removed.
-Mark
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Reporting some spam bots & their threads:
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6656
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6611
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6641
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6613
I recommend deleting these threads and ban their authors (just ban their IP's, so they cannot logon with a different account)
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Thanks for the reports. Removed and banned.
-Mark
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Threads [15 May 2008]
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?p=17889#post17889
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Threads [20 May 2008]
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7035
User: Beptblupt
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Threads [25 May 2008]
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7088
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7133
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7181
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7182
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7183
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7186
http://www.party107.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7185
Users
owedwheerty
SpapEndadeN
bruce001
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If your the administer just ban them and their IP address?
Edit: I didn't think it was that bad.