Anti-spam moderators!

kostas22 wrote:Very bad spam

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2296
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2297
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2298
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2299
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2300
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2301
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2302

Damn, damn, DAMN! Jamie is the only one who can lock down IPs, and he's not in town. Grrr, I've had it with this spammer, has been going on all day!

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 31 May 2010, 18:28

CarlosFerreira wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Very bad spam

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2296
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2297
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2298
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2299
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2300
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2301
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2302

Damn, damn, DAMN! Jamie is the only one who can lock down IPs, and he's not in town. Grrr, I've had it with this spammer, has been going on all day!

I've deleted about 10 of his stuff or so. This one is annoyingly persistent.

watka · Post by **watka** » 31 May 2010, 22:05

HOLY MOLY!

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2335
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2334
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2333
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2332
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2331
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2330
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2329
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2328
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2327
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2326
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2325
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2324
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2323
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2322
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2321
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2320
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2319

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 31 May 2010, 22:06

watka wrote:HOLY MOLY!

http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2335
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2334
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2333
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2332
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2331
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2330
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2329
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2328
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2327
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2326
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2325
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2324
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2323
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2322
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2321
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2320
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2319

I deleted all of them before you posted. Barely.

I have to have deleted 50 pieces of spam in the last day, and I know Carlos has done much the same. This is absolutely crazy.

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 31 May 2010, 22:14

We are now the Sudetenland.

/Godwin

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 31 May 2010, 22:15

thehemogoblin wrote:I have to have deleted 50 pieces of spam in the last day, and I know Carlos has done much the same. This is absolutely crazy.

Serious guys, it's been absolutely mental. We really cannot delete them as fast as they're posted.

watka · Post by **watka** » 31 May 2010, 22:15

shinji wrote::shock:

We are now the Sudetenland.

/Godwin

Peace in our time, dear boy.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 31 May 2010, 23:56

seems you guys won't get much sleep tonight....

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 31 May 2010, 23:58

This wrote:seems you guys won't get much sleep tonight....

Or, more accurately, you guys are going to get to see a lot of porn advertisements.

Collieafc · Post by **Collieafc** » 01 Jun 2010, 07:26

Yeah, massive spam attack in the Paul Stoddart memorial forum...

EDIT: And in the JDD forum too...

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 01 Jun 2010, 07:52

If I can suggest it, there are anti-spambot contuermeasures that might serve us well. I'm thinking of the screen where you have to input words from an image that are distorted to make it impossible for bots to read. I don't know how you actually get them, but I figured they'd be part and parcel of forum software.

Post by **mario** » 01 Jun 2010, 08:04

Captain Hammer wrote:If I can suggest it, there are anti-spambot contuermeasures that might serve us well. I'm thinking of the screen where you have to input words from an image that are distorted to make it impossible for bots to read. I don't know how you actually get them, but I figured they'd be part and parcel of forum software.

I think that we'll need something like that, because we've been under siege recently from spam.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 01 Jun 2010, 08:23

The attack is also on the Jean-Denis Deletraz Memorial Forum

From viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2357 to viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2368

Post by **Nuppiz** » 01 Jun 2010, 08:38

Oh my...

Either we need A) Administrator rights to the user moderators so that they can ban spambots B) Countermeasures so that the spambots won't get to spam in the first place or C) More moderators.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 01 Jun 2010, 09:21

So sorry about this, lads and lasses. Number of spam threads this morning: 42. Douglas Adams was right...

Post by **Nuppiz** » 01 Jun 2010, 10:46

CarlosFerreira wrote:So sorry about this, lads and lasses. Number of spam threads this morning: 42. Douglas Adams was right...

And it's increasing, the same bot over and over again...

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 01 Jun 2010, 14:07

If we can't get one of those image-code things I was talking about, an early system we used to use on a very old forum was that accounts needed to be verified by the moderators. When a new user registered, the final step would be to send an e-mail to the moderators answering five questions (in our case, these would be things like "Who was the 1997 World Champion?" and "How many wins did Ayrton Senna score at Monaco?"; if thy don't know the answers off by heart, they canalways use Wikipedia). The account would not be verified until the user had responded.

Debaser · Post by **Debaser** » 01 Jun 2010, 15:31

Captain Hammer wrote:If we can't get one of those image-code things I was talking about, an early system we used to use on a very old forum was that accounts needed to be verified by the moderators. When a new user registered, the final step would be to send an e-mail to the moderators answering five questions (in our case, these would be things like "Who was the 1997 World Champion?" and "How many wins did Ayrton Senna score at Monaco?"; if thy don't know the answers off by heart, they canalways use Wikipedia). The account would not be verified until the user had responded.

I suggested this a while back, that you ask prospective forum members a simple question before they join so spambots won't be a problem. On one forum they asked you what 1+1 was in the sign-up process, I think something like this is necessary.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 01 Jun 2010, 15:36

Captain Hammer wrote:If we can't get one of those image-code things I was talking about, an early system we used to use on a very old forum was that accounts needed to be verified by the moderators. When a new user registered, the final step would be to send an e-mail to the moderators answering five questions (in our case, these would be things like "Who was the 1997 World Champion?" and "How many wins did Ayrton Senna score at Monaco?"; if thy don't know the answers off by heart, they canalways use Wikipedia). The account would not be verified until the user had responded.

Or even "Who is HWNSNBM?" to prove that they already read the forum/listen to the podcasts... And flying flaming papayas to those who CAN'T say his name...

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 01 Jun 2010, 17:37

Nuppiz wrote:Oh my...

Either we need A) Administrator rights to the user moderators so that they can ban spambots B) Countermeasures so that the spambots won't get to spam in the first place or C) More moderators.

C isn't a problem, 99.9% of the time. I've gone entire weekends not being here and Carlos hasn't had any problems. It's more A than anything else, because we're far more active than Jamienoch.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 01 Jun 2010, 17:38

Also, I'm going to say this here: Please do not reply to these spam pieces. It's taking us so much time to delete them that I'm just deleting your responses with them. It takes way too much time to move a reply when you're trying to delete 15-42 pieces of spam in one sitting.

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 01 Jun 2010, 18:10

thehemogoblin wrote:Also, I'm going to say this here: Please do not reply to these spam pieces. It's taking us so much time to delete them that I'm just deleting your responses with them. It takes way too much time to move a reply when you're trying to delete 15-42 pieces of spam in one sitting.

What he said, absolutely. Don't feed the spambots, just makes it doubly hard for us.

watka · Post by **watka** » 01 Jun 2010, 18:20

And another: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2419

pablo_h · Post by **pablo_h** » 02 Jun 2010, 05:18

So much spam.
Really need to update the crappy forum captcha to a more advanced one, or use a completely different picture recognition system.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 02 Jun 2010, 10:30

I believe it is also possible to include custom questions which can catch out spambots - they're not likely to be programmed with how long Macro Apicella's F1 career was, or how many starts Jean-Denis Deletraz made, for instance.

pablo_h · Post by **pablo_h** » 02 Jun 2010, 13:57

Doesn't even have to be like that. I searched around on my PC hardware/software forum I go to a lot, and a couple of people posted suggestions or had problems.
One guy who had problems just had the captcha section of signing up replaced with 'tick the boxes with images of kittens'. So you could have just 'tick the boxes with F1 cars'
Other suggestions were upgrade the captcha (as the default is already bypassed by Bots easily - Is that the problem here?) with an upgraded captcha mod .

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 02 Jun 2010, 14:56

Captain Hammer wrote:If I can suggest it, there are anti-spambot contuermeasures that might serve us well. I'm thinking of the screen where you have to input words from an image that are distorted to make it impossible for bots to read. I don't know how you actually get them, but I figured they'd be part and parcel of forum software.

It's called Captcha software. Either it's not working or it's still switched off (I couldn't sign up at first because I couldn't read it, so Enoch (temporarily?) switched it off :oops:

)
Though I think Waris had this problem too, so don't start pointing the finger at me!!!
Hell, I'll even volunteer to be a third moderator if it makes any difference.

pablo_h · Post by **pablo_h** » 02 Jun 2010, 15:16

Nah, it's on. Log out and click on the register link, it's there.
But like I said, the default basic captcha on phpbb is already beaten by spam bots.
The forum needs to modify it or upgrade it.

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 02 Jun 2010, 16:34

kostas22 wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:If I can suggest it, there are anti-spambot contuermeasures that might serve us well. I'm thinking of the screen where you have to input words from an image that are distorted to make it impossible for bots to read. I don't know how you actually get them, but I figured they'd be part and parcel of forum software.

It's called Captcha software. Either it's not working or it's still switched off (I couldn't sign up at first because I couldn't read it, so Enoch (temporarily?) switched it off )
Though I think Waris had this problem too, so don't start pointing the finger at me!!!
Hell, I'll even volunteer to be a third moderator if it makes any difference.

Yeah, as will I if it eases the work-load. I'm on summer hols now so I'll be on the computer even more than usual.

Dan B · Post by **Dan B** » 03 Jun 2010, 18:55

Got some spam here:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2545

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 03 Jun 2010, 20:19

http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2550
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2549
http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2551

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 05 Jun 2010, 02:24

kostas22 wrote:NO.

Just bathplugging no.

don't respond to it! do it for our precious moderators!

(that's why i quote you in a different topic

)

CarlosFerreira · Post by **CarlosFerreira** » 05 Jun 2010, 08:47

This wrote:
kostas22 wrote:NO.

Just bathplugging no.

don't respond to it! do it for our precious moderators!

(that's why i quote you in a different topic )

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the man.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 05 Jun 2010, 12:51

This wrote:
kostas22 wrote:NO.

Just bathplugging no.

don't respond to it! do it for our precious moderators!

(that's why i quote you in a different topic )

Thanks, This. You're my favorite now.

/inebriatedmoderating