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Thu Mar 02, 2006 1:49 am |
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A heads up to harshbarger he should put up a waiting period to become a member to his site or put up censorship *gasp |
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T-R-A
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 594
Location: Western NC
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Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:20 am |
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Yes, he's aware. As are all of us on UCL. Anyone running a board on phpbb is having the same problems. I have to remove/ban about 3 to 12 spammer a day from registration. We're working on it... |
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Jk
Joined: 03 Oct 2004
Posts: 24
Location: Finland
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Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:25 pm |
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There should be a confirmation code function in phpbb. (displays a random image with a code you have to enter). That should stop the bots.
Don't know what the function is called or anything, but I know it exists. |
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Andrew T.
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 22
Location: Manitowoc, Wis., U.S.
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Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:59 pm |
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The 386Page forums are a wasteland, although as long as we can communicate on Uncreative Labs that shouldn't be too much of a problem to our well-being. 
My somewhat open-ended question is, why do some phpBB-based forums attract a lot of spam while others don't? |
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T-R-A
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 594
Location: Western NC
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Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:37 am |
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Others have likely implemented a registration process more difficult to "spam". We hope to do that here as well... |
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Puckdropper
Site Admin
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 766
Location: Not in Chicago
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Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:03 am |
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Most the hit-and-run spammers don't bother registering... Requiring registering before posting mostly stopped spam on my board... (But UCL may be different.) |
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>say "Hello sailor"
Nothing happens here.
>score
Your score is 202 (total of 350 points), in 866 moves.
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harshbarj
Joined: 01 Oct 2004
Posts: 169
Location: behind you!
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Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:51 pm |
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I'm about to scrap phpbb and look for another forum to use. I can't sit and delete 30 new members every week. |
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T-R-A
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 594
Location: Western NC
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Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:14 am |
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| Requiring registering before posting mostly stopped spam on my board... (But UCL may be different.) |
The "anonymous & spam" spambots apparently have been taken care of (by requiring registration before posting). The "register & link" and "register & spam" spambots are still a problem (about 5/day). I can take care of most of that, but we still are working on keeping all spam off the board. Advice to any noobies---never click on a link from a recently registered user without understanding the potential consequences.... |
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