Spam report thread

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:05 am

totally prunned!

Xaron · Post by **Xaron** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:48 pm

Yep. I'd suggest to install a real working patch against that as I already stated here:

NO SPAM

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=15229

Regards - Xaron

sRc · Post by **sRc** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:37 pm

concerning your somewhat pointed comment about changing to a different forum software Xaron....

youre going to get spam registrations with any forum software (i see it all the time on all of them). you can do some things to make it harder for the automatic bots, but there are still people that actually do it live. the only thing you can do is just keep on top of things, and you have to do this with any type of forum

phpbb2 is just fine... phpbb3 will be far superior

Xaron · Post by **Xaron** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:13 pm

The weak point is the Captcha. If the admins here would install a better captcha there would be much less spambots. Ok, I don't like phpBB because of its "programming" style... And because it's very popular and free it's (of course) the main target for spammers and crackers. I don't see any spambots in vBulletin forums.

Regards - Xaron

sRc · Post by **sRc** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:43 pm

Xaron wrote:I don't see any spambots in vBulletin forums.

i see them all the time (and have to deal with them too as a mod on a large vb forum)... the mods are just doing their job

but yah they do target phpBB more

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:31 pm

Thanks for reporting the spam guys, and for your understanding.
Right now switching to another board software would mean starting from scratch and there's not too much time and there's already quite a lot of valuable info in these forums. Fortunately we got several hands helping out deleting the spam and the users who just want to ruin the Irlicht party.

Xaron · Post by **Xaron** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:30 am

afecelis wrote:Right now switching to another board software would mean starting from scratch...

Well, there are converters for wBB and vB, but ok, I can understand.

But please just install this small Captcha-Mod and there will be no Bots anymore.

http://www.amigalink.de/phpbb2/download ... ail&id=101

Regards - Xaron

Spintz · Post by **Spintz** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:48 am

I've noticed the majority of these spam posts end up in the Offtopic forum. Would it maybe help to rename the forum? Or would that just cause the spammers to pick more random locations/posts throughout the forum?

We should have a vote on what to rename the Offtopic forum too!!

Xaron · Post by **Xaron** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:18 pm

Spintz wrote:Would it maybe help to rename the forum?

It would help to just install the mod I suggested... No bots anymore...

Regards - Xaron

Spintz · Post by **Spintz** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:02 pm

More fun to rename the Offtopc forum.

How about

Useless Posts or
Dont Post Porn Links Here

!!

sRc · Post by **sRc** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:20 am

omg lol i thought there was an OffTopic as well as the freshly-renamed Off Topic, i was all "what the? we've got one too many forums!"

Spintz · Post by **Spintz** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:57 pm

It seems they are mad we renamed our Offtopic forum and are posting relentlessly, just everywhere else now!!! Damn me and my stupid ideas!!!

afecelis · Post by **afecelis** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:23 am

Spintz wrote:It seems they are mad we renamed our Offtopic forum and are posting relentlessly, just everywhere else now!!! Damn me and my stupid ideas!!!

hehehe, it was worth the try

Hopefully one of the mods will get implemented soon.

Xaron · Post by **Xaron** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:18 am

afecelis wrote:Hopefully one of the mods will get implemented soon.

If you need help doing that, please let me know.

Regards - Xaron

CodeDog · Post by **CodeDog** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:22 am

I think they need to start handing out IP bans

Or better yet would be to make a special user group for the spammers and make their posts invisible to everyone except those in the spammer group. This way they won’t know their posts are blocked because they will still see them but the rest of us wont see them.