So any admins actually watching and want to bad roberbdib3a on forum?
Also why aren't every moderator has these rights to block spammers, since we have only one forum.
- Vitaliy
On 10/18/2011 07:37 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
So any admins actually watching and want to bad roberbdib3a on forum?
Also why aren't every moderator has these rights to block spammers, since we have only one forum.
So no takers? I'm guessing we need more forum admins then, so more timezones can be covered.
Vitaliy.
On 2011-10-19 (October, Wednesday) 02:37:41 Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
On 10/18/2011 07:37 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
So any admins actually watching and want to bad roberbdib3a on forum?
Also why aren't every moderator has these rights to block spammers, since we have only one forum.
So no takers? I'm guessing we need more forum admins then, so more timezones can be covered.
I agree. I and other morerators have deleted spam messages, but the spammer kept using the same account to post more. Inability to ban spammer's account is frustrating. I would happely volonteer to be forum admin so I can ban spammers.
On Wednesday 19 October 2011 14:08:14 L. Rahyen wrote:
On 2011-10-19 (October, Wednesday) 02:37:41 Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
On 10/18/2011 07:37 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
So any admins actually watching and want to bad roberbdib3a on forum?
Also why aren't every moderator has these rights to block spammers, since we have only one forum.
So no takers? I'm guessing we need more forum admins then, so more timezones can be covered.
I agree. I and other morerators have deleted spam messages, but the spammer kept using the same account to post more. Inability to ban spammer's account is frustrating. I would happely volonteer to be forum admin so I can ban spammers.
The past few days there's been spam messages every few minutes and as soon as you ban an account an other one appears. Obviously the bots have figured out the answer to the captcha.
On 10/19/2011 10:21 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
The past few days there's been spam messages every few minutes and as soon as you ban an account an other one appears. Obviously the bots have figured out the answer to the captcha.
Alrighty then, time for me to change the question... Done!
The new question is: What operating system does Wine run applications from?
Should be obvious for a human.
-N
On 19/10/11 16:49, Jeremy Newman wrote:
On 10/19/2011 10:21 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
The past few days there's been spam messages every few minutes and as soon as you ban an account an other one appears. Obviously the bots have figured out the answer to the captcha.
Alrighty then, time for me to change the question... Done!
The new question is: What operating system does Wine run applications from?
Should be obvious for a human.
Including the human who wrote the bot?
-N
On 10/19/2011 09:49 AM, Jeremy Newman wrote:
On 10/19/2011 10:21 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
The past few days there's been spam messages every few minutes and as soon as you ban an account an other one appears. Obviously the bots have figured out the answer to the captcha.
Alrighty then, time for me to change the question... Done!
The new question is: What operating system does Wine run applications from?
Should be obvious for a human.
Hope that won't upset users of other well known OS <g>.
Any ETA on the new version of PHPBB?
Vitaliy.
On 10/19/2011 08:03 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
The new question is: What operating system does Wine run applications from?
Should be obvious for a human.
I will take suggestions on other questions that regular users can answer easily, but would stump (for a bit anyway) a bot, or bot author.
Our textual question thing, does have the ability to randomly pick from a list of questions. Limiting it to just one makes it easier for a bot author to work around.
Any ETA on the new version of PHPBB?
Soon-ish. Upgrading from v2 to v3 is fairly staight forward with the build in conversion tools. I just need find some time to convert our theme files to work on v3.
-N
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:48, Jeremy Newman jnewman@codeweavers.com wrote:
I will take suggestions on other questions that regular users can answer easily, but would stump (for a bit anyway) a bot, or bot author.
Why not the good and old random math questions inside an image? For example 2 + 4 = ...
On 20/10/11 4:13 PM, Bruno Jesus wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:48, Jeremy Newmanjnewman@codeweavers.com wrote:
I will take suggestions on other questions that regular users can answer easily, but would stump (for a bit anyway) a bot, or bot author.
Why not the good and old random math questions inside an image? For example 2 + 4 = ...
A bot should be able to figure that out too, unless the answer is also a picture.
Maybe A+B = ? The answer being AB.
Don't know if any of this is possible with the software, however.
Unless you want to implement a captcha system, any system is going to annoy the users. Bots can be programmed to answer those fields pretty easily; if a spammer wants to get around it, they will :)
JL
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Ken Sharp kennybobs@o2.co.uk wrote:
On 20/10/11 4:13 PM, Bruno Jesus wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:48, Jeremy Newmanjnewman@codeweavers.com wrote:
I will take suggestions on other questions that regular users can answer easily, but would stump (for a bit anyway) a bot, or bot author.
Why not the good and old random math questions inside an image? For example 2 + 4 = ...
A bot should be able to figure that out too, unless the answer is also a picture.
Maybe A+B = ? The answer being AB.
Don't know if any of this is possible with the software, however.
Isn't the system for creating new accounts only? If it's just to post messages then anything will be annoying.
On 20/10/11 7:48 PM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
Unless you want to implement a captcha system, any system is going to annoy the users. Bots can be programmed to answer those fields pretty easily; if a spammer wants to get around it, they will :)
JL
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Ken Sharpkennybobs@o2.co.uk wrote:
On 20/10/11 4:13 PM, Bruno Jesus wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:48, Jeremy Newmanjnewman@codeweavers.com wrote:
I will take suggestions on other questions that regular users can answer easily, but would stump (for a bit anyway) a bot, or bot author.
Why not the good and old random math questions inside an image? For example 2 + 4 = ...
A bot should be able to figure that out too, unless the answer is also a picture.
Maybe A+B = ? The answer being AB.
Don't know if any of this is possible with the software, however.
I don't subscribe to websites that have annoying captchas either way; and many people are like that. Bot authors have proved they can beat any system; and captchas (recaptcha especially) has proved itself as one of the most effective and unintrusive free captcha systems.
JL
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Ken Sharp kennybobs@o2.co.uk wrote:
Isn't the system for creating new accounts only? If it's just to post messages then anything will be annoying.
On 20/10/11 7:48 PM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
Unless you want to implement a captcha system, any system is going to annoy the users. Bots can be programmed to answer those fields pretty easily; if a spammer wants to get around it, they will :)
JL
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Ken Sharpkennybobs@o2.co.uk wrote:
On 20/10/11 4:13 PM, Bruno Jesus wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:48, Jeremy Newmanjnewman@codeweavers.com wrote:
I will take suggestions on other questions that regular users can answer easily, but would stump (for a bit anyway) a bot, or bot author.
Why not the good and old random math questions inside an image? For example 2 + 4 = ...
A bot should be able to figure that out too, unless the answer is also a picture.
Maybe A+B = ? The answer being AB.
Don't know if any of this is possible with the software, however.
On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
I don't subscribe to websites that have annoying captchas either way; and many people are like that. Bot authors have proved they can beat any system; and captchas (recaptcha especially) has proved itself as one of the most effective and unintrusive free captcha systems.
Quarantine new users' posts until approved by a human moderator. After a few intelligent posts, grant the user unmoderated posting privilege. The Boost mailing list does this.
Josh
I think that's a great system, but you'll need volunteers :) I can volunteer for that matter, but I won't exactly spend a lot of time on it.
JL
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Josh Juran josh@iswifter.net wrote:
On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
I don't subscribe to websites that have annoying captchas either way; and many people are like that. Bot authors have proved they can beat any system; and captchas (recaptcha especially) has proved itself as one of the most effective and unintrusive free captcha systems.
Quarantine new users' posts until approved by a human moderator. After a few intelligent posts, grant the user unmoderated posting privilege. The Boost mailing list does this.
Josh
Here here
On 20/10/11 8:17 PM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
I think that's a great system, but you'll need volunteers :) I can volunteer for that matter, but I won't exactly spend a lot of time on it.
JL
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Josh Juranjosh@iswifter.net wrote:
On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
I don't subscribe to websites that have annoying captchas either way; and many people are like that. Bot authors have proved they can beat any system; and captchas (recaptcha especially) has proved itself as one of the most effective and unintrusive free captcha systems.
Quarantine new users' posts until approved by a human moderator. After a few intelligent posts, grant the user unmoderated posting privilege. The Boost mailing list does this.
Josh
On 2011-10-20 (October, Thursday) 19:17:56 Jerome Leclanche wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Josh Juran josh@iswifter.net wrote:
Quarantine new users' posts until approved by a human moderator. After a few intelligent posts, grant the user unmoderated posting privilege. The Boost mailing list does this.
I think that's a great system, but you'll need volunteers :) I can volunteer for that matter, but I won't exactly spend a lot of time on it.
If such a system will be used, I will volunteer too. By the way, I like this idea because I think it can prevent all or almost all spam (most spammers never post "intelligent posts").
On 10/20/2011 02:34 PM, L. Rahyen wrote:
If such a system will be used, I will volunteer too. By the way, I like this idea because I think it can prevent all or almost all spam (most spammers never post "intelligent posts").
It would definitely be an improvement. I moderate in some other tech forums and only *rarely* have I seen a bot programmed to post a few generic ("me too" and such) posts before it started spewing the spam.
On 10/19/2011 11:21 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
On Wednesday 19 October 2011 14:08:14 L. Rahyen wrote:
On 2011-10-19 (October, Wednesday) 02:37:41 Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
On 10/18/2011 07:37 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
So any admins actually watching and want to bad roberbdib3a on forum?
Also why aren't every moderator has these rights to block spammers, since we have only one forum.
So no takers? I'm guessing we need more forum admins then, so more timezones can be covered.
I agree. I and other morerators have deleted spam messages, but the spammer kept using the same account to post more. Inability to ban spammer's account is frustrating. I would happely volonteer to be forum admin so I can ban spammers.
The past few days there's been spam messages every few minutes and as soon as you ban an account an other one appears. Obviously the bots have figured out the answer to the captcha.
Any way to determine IP address and do something like failtoban and lock the IP our for a few hours. This should be a firewall function not forum software. Paul R.
On 19/10/11 03:37, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
On 10/18/2011 07:37 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
So any admins actually watching and want to bad roberbdib3a on forum?
Also why aren't every moderator has these rights to block spammers, since we have only one forum.
So no takers? I'm guessing we need more forum admins then, so more timezones can be covered.
I rarely use the forums but if it's that bad I would happily look in a few times a day. UTC+1
Vitaliy.
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