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The spam registrations/posts

Posted January 17th, 2006 by int 21h

Lately we seem to have come upon quite a few spam registrations and even thread resurrection from spambots.

If you check out the memberlist, a good portion of the members we have are actually just spambots.

Are there any plans to put into place a turing test or similar? I think there are some phpBB addons out there that would do this.
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On January 17th, 2006 ramius says:

now i understand
rurh is a spambot!

Re: The spam registrations/posts

On January 29th, 2006 Noryl says:
int 21h wrote:

Lately we seem to have come upon quite a few spam registrations and even thread resurrection from spambots.

If you check out the memberlist, a good portion of the members we have are actually just spambots.

Are there any plans to put into place a turing test or similar? I think there are some phpBB addons out there that would do this.

Personally I haven't seen anything like this. I see some users that could possibly be spam bot created but the few I saw had 0 posts. Got any examples?

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Re:The spam registrations/posts

On January 29th, 2006 int 21h says:

http://mud.arctic.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22271#22271

http://mud.arctic.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22275#22275

http://mud.arctic.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22274#22274

Re:The spam registrations/posts

On January 29th, 2006 Noryl says:
int 21h wrote:

http://mud.arctic.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22271#22271

http://mud.arctic.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22275#22275

http://mud.arctic.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22274#22274

I see. Well short of going to admin approval for all new users, we'd need some patch. Probably only 2 people that can add anything to the forums on that scale...they know who they are.

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The site upgrade should have

On February 27th, 2006 scrappinak says:

The site upgrade should have taken care of this.

Commenting

On February 27th, 2006 Pioch says:

I haven't commented on too many boards because I haven't found anything that affects me personally yet. That could be true of other players too. Not necissarily that we're bots.