Beware Spammers

ThePhantomMod —

[color=blue]Please be aware of spammers attacking the forums lately. Alot of their posts have been deleted and the perpetrator(s) banned.

However due to the volume of spamming please be patient before a mod is online and able to deal with it. If you do come across any please alert a mod or Admin.

Regards

-ThePhantomMod[/color]

Forum

You — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 - 15:10

Just deleted ten posts.

Did I miss any?

You — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 - 15:16

We have 1481 registered users.

from them 1120 have a total of 0 posts.

When I move forum software again (which I am going to), any users with 0 posts will be deleted.

Seraphim — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 - 18:52

[quote="Mez"]SO NEWBIES START POSTING!!!!! :shock:[/quote]

:roll:

I worry about you sometimes....

lay off the coffee...

crazy kitty. 😛

People with 0 posts obviously spammers... delete them... all...... taking up space.

yashmaki — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 - 08:07

aint there no way to create a forum bot that can automatically boot ppl posting explicit/filthy material? Like this sicko who keeps returning with different id's. it's putting me off the forum :?

Seraphim — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 - 09:59

Im not sure about if using a bot would work in this case ... but there are various admin toolkits that may do the job.

You — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 - 14:18

Drupal (the proposed replacement to phpbb) has a few of modules which would help.

1. it compares the posts with previous ones. if they are too similar it does not allowo posting.

2. Another allows users to rate posts as spam. get past a threshold and it will get removed until a moderator approes it.

3. you can have a maximum number of links per post.

4. It can also use the akismet system whereit will compare parameters with stuff from the akismet service. if ti deems it spam it will not allow it to be posted.

And I should be able to move all information across without data loss.

I just need a webmonkey to step up and port one single module (webmonkey thread in the dudes forum...), which I can probably do myself but I just cannot find the motivation to do. yet.

ThePhantomMod — Sat, 3 Mar 2007 - 10:36

[color=blue]All three sections (General, Events & Tech) were attacked this morning with spam. I had to spend half an hour cleaning it up and banning the members.

Admin you know what needs to be done.

-ThePhantomMod[/color]

You — Sun, 4 Mar 2007 - 18:06

[quote="ThePhantomMod"][color=blue]All three sections (General, Events & Tech) were attacked this morning with spam. I had to spend half an hour cleaning it up and banning the members.

Admin you know what needs to be done.

-ThePhantomMod[/color][/quote]

I have tested a few things out with drupal. I may move our forums to the new system tonight.

Funzo — Sun, 4 Mar 2007 - 18:25

wat will happen will we change and lose all number of posts please say yes

MuslimBro — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 - 09:08

SPAM ALERT!

If you've got too many mods how comes I only see ThePhantomMod doing the only work?

[b]EDIT: The rest of us don't make a song and dance about it -------------- Modnster [/b]

MuslimBro — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 - 10:55

Oh sorry I forgot about you.

Btw the forum has been spammed again!

You — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 - 13:26

always leave the spammer name here aswell.

And thanks for the 'alert'. always appreciated as it allows me to check on my mods 😛

As soon as I et a move on onto the new forum system, this type of problem should be one of the past.

Seraphim — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 - 16:19

[quote="Admin"]always leave the spammer name here aswell.

And thanks for the 'alert'. always appreciated as it allows me to check on my mods 😛

As soon as I et a move on onto the new forum system, this type of problem should be one of the past.[/quote]

How soon can we expect it and will we loose our current threads and posts? Will it be obvious we are no longer using phpbb?

Noor — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 - 17:44

[quote="Seraphim"]How soon can we expect it..[/quote]

[b][color=indigo]Whenever the lazy ADMIN can be bothered!!! :roll: [/color][/b]

You — Wed, 7 Mar 2007 - 17:52

Noor, answered question 1.

We will not lose our existing topics and posts, however some links may stop working.

As for question 3, it will be obvious as I will use the default drupal theme for starters.

I am just procastrinating atm. looking for solutions to problems we will probably not have.

Besides once the forums have been moved, then there will be the arduous task of moving all posts from the website across aswell... that will have to be done manually.

You — Thu, 8 Mar 2007 - 22:56

[quote="F4NZO"]rocky 999 delete him delete him NOW!!![/quote]

I thought I had already done that? yesterday?

EDIT

Just checked and he has long gone.

King-Omair — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 - 20:04

dawud_k
dawudk
adnan
Adnan_K
Sundas_trq

alert please block these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 - 20:09

[quote="King-Omair"]dawud_k
dawudk
adnan
Adnan_K
Sundas_trq

alert please block these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote]

why?

Dave — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 - 00:46

Cue spam from namanaj in 5...4...3...2...1...

You — Mon, 28 May 2007 - 01:01

I am getting tired of deleting 20 odd accounts every day and then also cleaning up after an occasional spammer gets through...