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Spammers

Discussion in 'Feedback & Suggestions' started by Essence, Aug 18, 2012.

  1. OmniaNigrum

    OmniaNigrum Member

    Those trolls should be boiled alive and fed to urchins.

    Spammers suck. Good luck getting rid of them. They sometimes seem pretty clever. But usually will move on rather than fight anything that changes soon after they start. There is always an easier target out there.
     
  2. deek

    deek Controller of Bits Staff Member

    I have added some extra code to hopefully prevent spam account registration. If this does not solve the problem I will put measures in place to prevent spam thread creation as well.
     
  3. Arron Syaoran

    Arron Syaoran Member

    by urchins you mean minions?
     
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  4. OmniaNigrum

    OmniaNigrum Member

    Any script doing that would be considered a keylogger. And I would take great offense at any site using keyloggers on the users for even legitimate reasons.
     
  5. Arron Syaoran

    Arron Syaoran Member

    Keylogger = virus according to my internal dictionary.
     
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  6. delta534

    delta534 Member

    Well, a Russian spammer seems to have gotten through.
     
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  7. Loerwyn

    Loerwyn Member

    We've had a few recently. Not many (not as bad as the Sanctum forum has been - jeez), but a few.
     
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  8. deek

    deek Controller of Bits Staff Member

    Yup they are indeed back. I'm looking into some other means of stopping them.
     
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  9. Createx

    Createx Member

    On RPS, they are part of the landscape... It's almost fun there, but only almost. I guess a lot of people have gotten themselves an infection there, would be good if you could get rid of them.
    A first-post approval hell?
    Any user registering can only post in a special subforum, and only once 2-3 members approve a post they can go on to the real forums.
    Might make the entry barrier too high though.
     
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  10. deek

    deek Controller of Bits Staff Member

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  11. Loerwyn

    Loerwyn Member

    Hm. I find stuff like that is prone to not working. One author whose blog I've posted on a few times uses something very similar (but it's a case of "drag the correct image to this point") and for a long while I was unable to post as it was bugging out.

    It may have improved or that one may be different, though.
     
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  12. deek

    deek Controller of Bits Staff Member

    To give more context. I'm hoping to only apply advanced spam detection on account creation. I would really hate for users to have to solve one anytime they post.
     
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  13. OmniaNigrum

    OmniaNigrum Member

    I like the KeyCaptcha. It works and does not try to convince me I am a robot by failing to work with what it actually looks like.

    (I just wasted an hour looking for an image I once had of a cartoon where someone attempts a captcha and determines they must be a robot.)
     
  14. Kazeto

    Kazeto Member

    I think this one might be worth trying, Sir Derek.

    Though I'm worrying about people who aren't able to make movements precise enough to get over that one...
     
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  15. LionsDen

    LionsDen Member

    I just tried the demo and you don't need to be perfect. As long as the pieces are close to the correct position it will say okay. I think it would be a good vetting procedure to determine if they are a human setting up an account. It might need more than 2 or 3 pieces of an image but should quickly lose the bots.
     
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  16. OmniaNigrum

    OmniaNigrum Member

    It would be better if it occasionally put a piece from a different image there to fool the bots. Normal humans could figure out easily enough that the extra piece is just that, but a bot would probably try and fail to connect it somehow.
     
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  17. klaymen_sk

    klaymen_sk Member

    Human stupidity.
    You're grossly underestimating it.
    :)
     
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  18. OmniaNigrum

    OmniaNigrum Member

    If someone cannot figure out a captcha after several tries, they are not capable of intelligible posting anyway.
     
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  19. klaymen_sk

    klaymen_sk Member

    And who from us is capable of intelligible posting? :p

    But I like your idea of using a captcha as an anti-moron barrier.
     
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  20. Turbo164

    Turbo164 Member

    Was it a human or a bot that decided to put the deer in the squid? :confused:
     
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