Random members

Started by Shadow, November 26, 2007, 10:25:21 PM

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Shadow

This board has close to 2000 members, and the most recent ones are always some random name that we will never see a post by. Who are all these people?
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wolf bite

Most of them are names I run a Google search and find they joined 50,000 forums today, or i check their email and it gos to some porno or drug site, then I ban them.  Sometimes they post but your staff is really diligent to removing posts before people see them.

Just so people know, when on my computer I click the forums every so often to see if we have new members to check. We were getting a lot, but a lot less these days as I have most of their ips banned.


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Shadow

We should get a random character test to get rid of the automated advertisement bots
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bjornredtail

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Yup... Spambots. We get them too from time to time over at FAF.

IP banning is going to be largely ineffective and catch a decent number of innocents as a result of things like proxy servers and the like.

Don't we already have a capta test for signups here?
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EDIT: Nope... We do not.
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=search;basic_search=captcha
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Yeah shadow like a year ago i accidently clicked in to one topic and it had porn all over it so im pretty sure i told windy or wolf bite and they took care of it promptly.
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