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spam bot prevention - fireb4llz - 12-29-2012
Ok this is getting ridiculous, We have 96 pages worth of members and at least 70 of them are filled with unactivated spam accounts. We need a way to stop this.
RE: spam bot prevention - Magmus - 01-15-2013
(12-29-2012, 05:27 PM)fire897 Wrote: Ok this is getting ridiculous, We have 96 pages worth of members and at least 70 of them are filled with unactivated spam accounts. We need a way to stop this.
Make it so one person can only make 2 accounts.
RE: spam bot prevention - TheAcidHammer - 01-15-2013
I don't think it's that easy magmus, something to do with i.p address, even if chaos could sort it out so that there is only 2 accounts per i.p there are a multitude of ways to get around that
RE: spam bot prevention - FUGGNUTZ - 01-15-2013
There are multiple ways to reset your IP address, so an IP ban wouldn't work.
RE: spam bot prevention - blueapplepiedude - 01-15-2013
yeah you could use proxys and stuff.
RE: spam bot prevention - Indrae - 01-15-2013
Better to try something than nothing I suppose.
RE: spam bot prevention - clownfish - 01-15-2013
Can we just selectively delete them? Perhaps there is a plugin for our forum system. Blackchaos would know the best. I'll PM him to come visit this thread.
RE: spam bot prevention - BlackChaos - 01-16-2013
Basically, the spam bots are the ones who have not activated their e-mail addresses. I can simply delete those members in our database who have not activated their e-mail addresses. As for preventing them, we already have measures in place but nothing is fool proof. If not for these measures, we would probably receive maybe 15-20 spam members per day.
RE: spam bot prevention - blueapplepiedude - 01-16-2013
Well, at the end of the month, we could just have a cleanout of all the spammers.
RE: spam bot prevention - fireb4llz - 01-16-2013
(01-16-2013, 07:13 AM)BlackChaos Wrote: Basically, the spam bots are the ones who have not activated their e-mail addresses. I can simply delete those members in our database who have not activated their e-mail addresses. As for preventing them, we already have measures in place but nothing is fool proof. If not for these measures, we would probably receive maybe 15-20 spam members per day.
Thats how much spam accounts we're currently getting actually.