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Responses to Spammers

Postby Luis on Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:45 pm

STOP DOING THAT!!!!


WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM MAN????
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Postby anitrain on Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:16 pm

They're computer programs, they have no morals or ethics. :(

But I've now activated the word filter to block several of the URLs they normally post. Hopefully that'll stop them. *crosses fingers*
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby Fields on Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:31 am

^Now this is irionic. (for when the post got deleted: there was some spam right between this post and anitrain's)

(Yes I know I'm not supposed to answer to spam but... really... this is humour...)
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby anitrain on Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:07 am

Fields wrote:(Yes I know I'm not supposed to answer to spam but... really... this is humour...)


See, but now I don't know what was so funny.

Oh wait, it was a spam post in a thread about spam. :lol:
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby Fields on Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:46 am

EXACTLY!! :-D
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby Sirence on Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:54 am

Maybe you should ad captchas? They usually reduce the number of spam posts. The ones from recaptcha are the best in my opinion -> http://recaptcha.net/
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby anitrain on Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:55 pm

Sirence wrote:Maybe you should ad captchas? They usually reduce the number of spam posts. The ones from recaptcha are the best in my opinion -> http://recaptcha.net/


The spam invasion of 2006 was stopped when I upgraded the forum from phpBB2 to phpBB3. :)
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby Yasmine on Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:47 am

Just a note, people, please don't reply to, or quote spam.
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby anitrain on Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:42 pm

I don't know why we're starting to get an influx of spam again. :(
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby mothz2 on Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:56 am

anitrain wrote:I don't know why we're starting to get an influx of spam again. :(

They evolved into super spam, its a scary world we live in
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby Guardian_of_Light on Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:11 pm

KILL! KILL THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby TaraneePilot on Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:19 pm

huygftdfre is now spamming the boards. Thanks for doing all you can to combat the spam. =D>
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby Guardian_of_Light on Fri Mar 19, 2010 6:13 pm

and 4powerlefe ugh i hate them! :evil:
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby buckmana on Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:16 pm

Okay, now I'm getting annoyed.

I'm sure I have better things to do then track/report spam and Yasmine or Anitrain have better things to do then flush accounts and delete the spam.

Although, for a short time there, we were spam free, thanks to a software change.

It may not be nice, but these steps may be necessary to defeat the spambots.

The most drastic measure is to close account registration.
Obviously, I don't favor this because it prevents new members from coming.

The second and more moderate approach is to have a human moderator review the account and actually communicate with the person involved before allowing access. A spambot would not be able to answer live or mail questions.
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Re: Responses to Spammers

Postby Guardian_of_Light on Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:02 pm

yeah some of the topics they're making are really inappropriate
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