Title: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 05:26:28 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 05:26:28 PM
Title: Re: Test, just a test
Post by: Oliver Clotheshoffe on July 12, 2022, 05:27:33 PM
Post by: Oliver Clotheshoffe on July 12, 2022, 05:27:33 PM
Title: Re: Test, just a test
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 05:41:01 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 05:41:01 PM
Is it okay to use a pen for the test?
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 06:17:25 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 06:17:25 PM
There's been a lot lately.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 06:49:33 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 06:49:33 PM
Sorry about the test, just a test spam..Quote from: Fashionista
There's been a lot lately.
If bots are successfully guessing/discerning the captcha codes I would upgrade the captcha difficulty or use a different sort of captcha.
On a forum I once ran I used a text-color formatted question: "What color is this text?" with a textbox to type in the color (making sure to disregard caps so "green" worked as well as "Green") and bots were basically a non-issue.
Instead of sometimes hundreds of spammers trying to create accounts every day I instantly got none.
That was a forum based on the SMF platform, not phpBB, but there may be similar options in the admin panel?
Hope this helps.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 07:53:01 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 07:53:01 PM
Sorry about the test, just a test spam..Quote from: Fashionista
There's been a lot lately.
If bots are successfully guessing/discerning the captcha codes I would upgrade the captcha difficulty or use a different sort of captcha.
On a forum I once ran I used a text-color formatted question: "What color is this text?" with a textbox to type in the color (making sure to disregard caps so "green" worked as well as "Green") and bots were basically a non-issue.
Instead of sometimes hundreds of spammers trying to create accounts every day I instantly got none.
That was a forum based on the SMF platform, not phpBB, but there may be similar options in the admin panel?
Hope this helps.
Yep, make it more difficult.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 07:58:47 PM
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 07:58:47 PM
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 08:11:07 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 08:11:07 PM
My guess from the OP is that the problem isn't coming from bots registering accounts, but by those using guest posting.
It's bots using guest posting..
I changed the op, from the link to whatever it was they were promoting.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 08:15:03 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 08:15:03 PM
Sorry about the test, just a test spam..Quote from: Fashionista
There's been a lot lately.
If bots are successfully guessing/discerning the captcha codes I would upgrade the captcha difficulty or use a different sort of captcha.
On a forum I once ran I used a text-color formatted question: "What color is this text?" with a textbox to type in the color (making sure to disregard caps so "green" worked as well as "Green") and bots were basically a non-issue.
Instead of sometimes hundreds of spammers trying to create accounts every day I instantly got none.
That was a forum based on the SMF platform, not phpBB, but there may be similar options in the admin panel?
Hope this helps.
vitty, did you find that the bots came in waves when you were an admin?
We've usually had guest posting in one form or another in the ten years we've been around..
We can go months without a single spambot post.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 08:21:30 PM
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 08:21:30 PM
My guess from the OP is that the problem isn't coming from bots registering accounts, but by those using guest posting.
It's bots using guest posting..
I changed the op, from the link to whatever it was they were promoting.
Yeah, I noticed. Why not delete rather than edit?
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 08:31:07 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 08:31:07 PM
It's bots using guest posting..
I changed the op, from the link to whatever it was they were promoting.
Yeah, I noticed. Why not delete rather than edit?
There were already two replies to it..
And I wanted to say, I'm aware of the spam..
I made my point, any further spam gets deleted.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 08:53:25 PM
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 08:53:25 PM
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 08:57:28 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 08:57:28 PM
I see. I had asked because if that's what you prefer I'd do that instead. I've been deleting, cuz once edited there's nothing left. ; ) But I wouldn't delete a thread with responses either. Also, I thought you might just be taking time to look at the IP.
I just delete them.....this was an exception..
I don't look at the IP's........I usually don't waste anytime deleting their spam.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 09:01:11 PM
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 09:01:11 PM
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 09:33:33 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 09:33:33 PM
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 09:42:36 PM
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 09:42:36 PM
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 09:46:31 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 09:46:31 PM
Just the ones you see cuz they sit there.
Ya
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 09:47:37 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 09:47:37 PM
The Politics section gets the most of them.
It's the closest one to the top that has guest posting.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 10:36:14 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 10:36:14 PM
vitty, did you find that the bots came in waves when you were an admin?Quote from: Fashionista
I didn't have Guest posting but new Users had to be approved by the Admin (me) and that's where I saw the registration attempts.
It's been a while so details are a bit fuzzy but as I recall the bots were a fairly consistent headache.
Some days there were more than others but I don't remember there being any sort of general pattern to the number of registrations per day.
Contemporary bots might follow a completely different pattern or patterns of activity though.
I'm sure their code has evolved over time.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 10:38:42 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 10:38:42 PM
It was just a bit of snark anyway; no great loss.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 10:41:00 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 10:41:00 PM
vitty, did you find that the bots came in waves when you were an admin?Quote from: Fashionista
I didn't have Guest posting but new Users had to be approved by the Admin (me) and that's where I saw the registration attempts.
It's been a while so details are a bit fuzzy but as I recall the bots were a fairly consistent headache.
Some days there were more than others but I don't remember there being any sort of general pattern to the number of registrations per day.
Contemporary bots might follow a completely different pattern or patterns of activity though.
I'm sure their code has evolved over time.
We used to have a big problem with bot registrations, but it doesn't happen very often anymore.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 10:41:52 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 10:41:52 PM
For the record I don't mind anything I poast to a spam thread going bye-bye along with the spam.
It was just a bit of snark anyway; no great loss.
That's good to know, thank you vitty.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 11:19:28 PM
Post by: cw_ on July 12, 2022, 11:19:28 PM
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 11:42:00 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 11:42:00 PM
To delete a Vitty post is to anger the gods. Do it at your peril.Quote from: cw_
Angering the gods now and then is why we're here.
The multiverse knows a bunch of semi-sentient shaved apes aren't good for anything else.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 11:45:15 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2022, 11:45:15 PM
To delete a Vitty post is to anger the gods.(//%3C/s%3E%3CIMGUR%20id=%22FZIvmA4%22%3E%3CURL%20url=%22https://i.imgur.com/FZIvmA4.gif%22%3Ehttps://i.imgur.com/FZIvmA4.gif%3C/URL%3E%3C/IMGUR%3E%3Ce%3E) Do it at your peril.
I'd really rather not do that either, but vitty understands about bots and gave his blessing.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 13, 2022, 12:11:45 AM
Post by: Anonymous on July 13, 2022, 12:11:45 AM
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Oliver Clotheshoffe on July 13, 2022, 10:35:04 AM
Post by: Oliver Clotheshoffe on July 13, 2022, 10:35:04 AM
For the record I don't mind anything I poast to a spam thread going bye-bye along with the spam.
It was just a bit of snark anyway; no great loss.
Same here.
Title: Re: spam, just spam
Post by: Anonymous on July 13, 2022, 11:08:29 AM
Post by: Anonymous on July 13, 2022, 11:08:29 AM
Just the ones you see cuz they sit there.
Where is Biggie Smiles anyway? Fash should give you mod privs in Politics to help keep the bots out.