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A Former User last edited by
For SMF there is Stop Spammer (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1547). Maybe something similar is available for this forum.
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A Former User last edited by
Maybe this is useful:
“Yep, the CAPCHAs seem to be useless any more as far as stopping the bots.
I have started just using a question/answer verification and that seems to stop the bots almost completely.
And then, if a bot slips through and gets verified, new members have to go through verify for their first 3 posts on the board which stops a bot. Then if for some reason they get by that and can post their spam link, all members who post a link in their first 10 posts have that link automatically scrambled.
I know, its overkill, but I figure a layered approach works best, and so far, especially since I put my board back up after it being taken down by a spammer, its working. So far. Nothing stops them forever.” -
A Former User last edited by
It's a primarily technical support forum, and I believe there are happen desperate people, we have glitches, making 1 post, maybe never again/soon...
Who's for the "pending board"/holding area?
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A Former User last edited by
Maybe some useful tips in this post: http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3235
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A Former User last edited by
It's a primarily technical support forum, and I believe there are happen desperate people, we have glitches, making 1 post, maybe never again/soon.
Which means no. :down:
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A Former User last edited by
I have a suggestion.
Why don't we set a new, dedicated forum for the Black Megic here? :idea: -
blackbird71 last edited byI can't help wondering... is somebody with an axe to grind targeting Opera forums specifically? The baba spams are almost identical, they often come in giant batches so as to splatter the whole forum page (at least 30 in a short time in the Windows forum today, 11 in this forum, yet none in some other ones), and appear to emanate from the same source. Other forums' spam I've seen over the years typically ranges 'all over the map' in terms of subject matter, timing, etc.
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Deleted User last edited by
That's a lovely racist statement, joshl. You might want to reconsider.
I think we're seeing the "tip of the iceberg" so to speak in terms of WHY the older Opera community was finally shut down. We had heard for months that the SPAMMING in the blogs and the forum was almost beyond their ability to stop and of course, eventually they simply decided to shut it down. Haavard had a suggestion for requiring two-step authentication before one could register for their forums but it was shot down as being too inconvenient. Something obviously has to be done before this forum too becomes irreparable.
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Deleted User last edited by
Prohibit the use of symbols (=, +, %, &, @. They used in spams) on the title to nominate topics can decrease spam
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A Former User last edited by
It's very easy to start a new discussion.
It SHOULD be.
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digmed last edited by
It's very easy to start a new discussion. Maybe you should add a captcha.
There's already a captcha when registering a new account. Unfortunately that seems to have little effect on preventing spam accounts from being registered.
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A Former User last edited by
That implies that the spam accounts are being registered by real people, not by robots.
How very sad to think that there are people who have nothing better to do than that, but perhaps they're very well paid!
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linuxmint7 last edited by
but perhaps they're very well paid!
I doubt it, but I guess every little helps.
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digmed last edited by
That implies that the spam accounts are being registered by real people, not by robots.
How very sad to think that there are people who have nothing better to do than that, but perhaps they're very well paid!I'm assuming there's a mix of bots and people. There are services that offer captcha-solving at ~$2 for 1000 solved captchas, with APIs you can use directly in your automated spam-bot. These services likely use both humans and optical character recognition software to solve captchas.
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blackbird71 last edited by
If phone marketers and/or scammers employ dozens of people in "boiler rooms" making "cold calls" for hours on end (and they do), it would come as no surprise to me if some spammer outfit might employ multiple folks to do nothing but register names as members in forums. Labor costs in some less-developed parts of the world are almost trivial, so a lower unit-cost 'reward' for the spamming business compared with phone marketing might easily be offset by the lower labor costs, at least to some degree.
What seems most striking about the spam that afflicts these forums (at least currently) is that so much of it is clustered around one or two subjects (baba spam), with another one or two odd topics or spam techniques that seem to occasionally arrive within the same fairly brief time windows as the baba spam bursts. There are literally a thousand spam topics out there on the Internet, as witnessed from time to time in other web forums, but I've never elsewhere seen such a single-focused array of spam as what has been occurring here.
