One Winged Angel Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Well, the problem I\'ve noticed is that in order to get around captchas and 'bot proof tests', some spammers use spambots aren\'t bots, but rather spampeople working in spamsweatshops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowfax Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Yup. There are whole warehouses in the East full of people who sit at computers all day and either bust through captchas or, if they\'re lucky, spend 12-16 hours a day playing MMOs farming in-game currency to sell for real money.You\'ll never auto-filter out all the spam. The keys are to have your ip ban list up to date, enough mods to have a continual staff presence, hopefully 24/7 in most cases, so that staff can kill the spam before anyone sees it, and to have forum software that allows you to delete every post by a given member from an admin console, without actually having to see any of the posts. This is a lesson I learned the hard way on my small car club\'s forum when some jerk posted horse porn in every sub-forum. All our mods are in the same time zone (because it\'s a regional club) and so we were all at work and unable to delete it without the pictures popping up on our work machines. I upgraded the software that night to one that had much better deletion controls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt'n Skunky Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 If you folks could only see the number of spam account sign ups we catch everyday. We can get up to a dozen attempts to create a spam account per hour. There is a system in place that matches usernames, emails, and IPs against a list of known spammer information that is doing a pretty good job. Without it, we would surely be swamped.Ultimately, there is nothing that will stop a spammer from manually creating an account, making a few non-sense posts to make the account look legit, then firing up the spambot. Those are the only ones that seem to get through currenty. Arrr!Capt\'n Skunky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JupiterII Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Hey don\'t kill the spam or I will be out off a job.OK everyone you heard him. Let\'s allow people to spam all they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Key of door Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Hey don\'t kill the spam or I will be out off a job.If we kill the job maybe we will be out of spam?Also,Why don\'t we take ALL the spammersAnd put them in another thread?I crossed the memes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgjiscool Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 WARNING!I found a... way to spam the forums!The spammer can edit the code of the webpage in the register page to bring up a certain captcha image!Will post a screenie of how it can be done...REMEMBER: I am 15 years old and I figured this out...Edit: Will PM this to a mod who wants to test it. Seeing as it\'d be stoopid to post it publicly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greatorder Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 WARNING!I found a... way to spam the forums!The spammer can edit the code of the webpage in the register page to bring up a certain captcha image!Will post a screenie of how it can be done...REMEMBER: I am 15 years old and I figured this out...Edit: Will PM this to a mod who wants to test it. Seeing as it\'d be stoopid to post it publicly.I\'d E-mail the admins, not post the screenie, else we\'ll be gang raped by a load of spam bots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgjiscool Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 I\'d E-mail the admins, not post the screenie, else we\'ll be gang raped by a load of spam bots.Yeah. Put an edit up cause I realised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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