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BrandonSPAM Users
I removed all the shit users, so now I was down to about 20, a week later we are at about 90, so we need a new plan. PS: I removed them after Todd's patch was installed.		2009-03-235:40 PM
ToddRe:SPAM Users
You could have them admin-approved.		2009-03-235:55 PM
BrandonRe:SPAM Users
How is that any better?		2009-03-235:58 PM
ToddRe:SPAM Users
Is there any e-mail activation required for new users?		2009-03-237:02 PM
BrandonRe:SPAM Users
Yes.		2009-03-237:08 PM
ToddRe:SPAM Users
I have some ideas to combat it like having some JavaScript block access to the site until they activate themselves through an e-mail verifier. Because if they haven't verified themselves, they can't register.		2009-03-237:48 PM
BrandonRe:SPAM Users
then how do good guys (not you, obviously) get in?		2009-03-237:49 PM
pharoahRe:SPAM Users
I've only seen about 2 spam posts in the last few months, but there have been about 25 posts about them. I get all excited because there's new activity on the GUI blog, but then I find it's just another thread about spam users. It's getting annoying, and frankly I don't see the problem at all.		2009-03-238:57 PM
ToddRe:SPAM Users
[b]Brandon wrote:[/b] [quote]then how do good guys (not you, obviously) get in?[/quote] lol Okay well what they'd do is register their IP with the website and then they only do it once. It's like those e-mail accounts where they make you go to a website to verify your e-mail address if you reply to someone with that feature enabled.		2009-03-239:52 PM
BrandonSPAM Users Continued
I'm getting tired of deleting spam user accounts. Today I deleted another 100. We need to battle the spam, does anyone have any ideas?		2009-04-2111:50 AM
pharoahRe:SPAM Users Continued
A CAPTCHA for registration ought to do the trick.		2009-04-2112:19 PM
BrandonRe:SPAM Users Continued
We already have that.		2009-04-211:37 PM
ksrRe:SPAM Users Continued
Then get a better one :P		2009-04-212:03 PM
BrandonRe:SPAM Users Continued
Or I thought we had one :P I'm actually not seeing it, so once I'm home, I'll install a new one.		2009-04-212:47 PM
SonicBritRe:SPAM Users Continued
one trick we do at work is to rename the field values in the php file, so the part where it has the form change the blah into a random value then do a search in the registration php file and change the name for that, the other thing to do is add a random (you can even add it using javascript) then if that doesnt exist refuse to register the user. That cuts out most of the spam on the forums. And if your system has a way of storing blocked IP's I'd add them to the list that way they dont get a second chance they'll just get pissed and move on to an easier target		2009-04-214:47 PM
ToddRe:SPAM Users Continued
I'd suggest the same as sonicbrit said. My solution would be to also have a series of checkboxes in a grid layout (5 x 5) and have the user check each box according to a small glyph (5 x 5 - resized of course). Then take the checkbox IDs, add them and MD5 it as a hidden field.		2009-04-217:14 PM
pharoahRe:SPAM Users Continued
I like that idea. There are plenty of cool captchas out there. One showed a bunch of pictures and said to click which one looked like X. I want to do one that shows some Figlet output text and has you type in an answer in QML. If only there were spammers for QML :). Look at this one: http://www.yuniti.com/register.php		2009-04-217:42 PM
BrandonRe:SPAM Users Continued
Well Todd, edit the registration components, and I'll install it :).		2009-04-218:46 PM
rCXRe:SPAM Users Continued
Or you could try [url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10222514-2.html]this method[/url]. Have the user choose which picture is right side up.		2009-04-2111:11 PM
ToddRe:SPAM Users Continued
[b]Brandon wrote:[/b] [quote]Well Todd, edit the registration components, and I'll install it :).[/quote] I will need temporary FTP to do it. In the registration component, the HTML templates are called through the "HTML_registration::registerForm" method which ultimately displays a registration template. There was also a small bug with the StopForumSpam.com implementation. I must've done it in haste not remembering that it should look for a string and not an array.		2009-04-2210:51 AM
BrandonRe:SPAM Users Continued
Todd, I PMed you info about your new FTP access.		2009-04-221:38 PM
ToddRe:SPAM Users Continued
Cool, I'll add the CAPTCHA code.		2009-04-225:01 PM
BrandonSPAM Users Updated
Its been almost 2 weeks, no spam users. Good job, Todd.		2009-05-048:18 PM
ToddRe:SPAM Users Updated
Great! :D At least there's something that's sure to work. This hasn't been hurting new registrations, has it? I mean I'm pretty sure everyone can copy a 3x3 glyph in a series of checkboxes.		2009-05-0512:47 AM

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