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Dunfeeeeeeeeeeee
I was talking with a bunch of lurkers that say they won't come on here now since the spam overlords took over. It shows that you guys don't have good protection in place and many don't want to risk it.
Get your shit together people.
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assburger brah gots his hands full fixin shit that aint broke and trying to figure out how to be a localQuote:
Originally Posted by abraham
this is a lonely planet love solution problem and is fuckin annoying
Did he really make that Downfall resub? I thought it was hilarious and very well done. Good job, Dunf.
You guys want to fix this shit this year? Lonely Planet is going to fire Dunfee if this keeps up.
I thought TGR was supposed to be more professionally managed with sponsors and all. It's kind of lame to have to sift through this on a regular basis
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Do you guys want some help w this?
How difficult is it to put Captcha in the sign-up procedure?
Hint: Not difficult.
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/m...135272-Reuol11 This asshat is only here to sell phone cases.
Looking into it. More of a time issue for tech team, especially since one if them is all gimped up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
not any more. Feel free to use the 'report post' button, triangle with the ! in the bottom left corner of posts...thanks----Quote:
Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel
egads they're doing love problem solutions in broad daylight
never gets old either
At least it's English letters this time.
^^^
el correo no deseado, el spam!
垃圾邮件 !
स्पैम !
Ahem
y'all got something against mesmerism? ;)
I guess it's harder than I thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
I forgot about report post, sorry.
I, for one, welcome our new Indian spam overlords?
Boom
holy shit!
only 4 non-sticky real threads on the first page!
This is getting a little embarrassing. I'm a web developer by vocation, I'd be happy to pitch in here.
maybe TGR should find someone who lives on the other side of the world, and make them a mod, so that there's someone online in the wee hours who has power to nuke this stuff.
and tech talk
Hello disgruntled members,
We are seeking members for our new all-volunteer force, the Counter-Vashikarian Nuclear Spamlord Militia. Your responsibilities will involved dive bombing Indian love spam from your smart telephone or desktop device. Strong preference for those in Eastern or European timezones. Benefits include a free hat and heli time.
PM me to apply, but expect your bravery and courage to be tested vigorously throughout the application process.
Yours,
Ryan
Chief Jong, Counter-Vashikarian Nuclear Spamlord Militia
How about you just fix the fucking problem instead of kicking the can down the road with another shitty joke.
I can fix this in 5 fucking minutes. You web guy must be a goddamm shit show. Give me money (or bacon) and access to the forum's source code and I'll have it fixed by the end of the day.
What's your solution?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lindahl
A logic list at registration would likely kill it off. Or you could do IP address blocking via whois. Or a simple filter that is based on their posting pattern would do the trick. At registration would be my first shot. They don't seem very sophisticated at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by atw527
Most of these posts are going to be through proxies. By using whois, are you looking to detect their ISP or location? We could block huge swaths of IP ranges in attempts to filter out proxies or certain countries, but that will likely include ham posters as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lindahl
The only way I could see this working is if we would moderate posts that exceed a certain %age of non-standard characters. Take this title for example: "ℂaℓℓ ℊiℛℒ SeRvIcE ❤ ☎ 5555555555❤ Esℭℴℛt Sℰℛviℭℰ In Delhi,". Most of those keywords are mixed in with special characters, and they will simply replace similar characters until they get past the keyword filter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lindahl
We are pretty sure that the spam accounts are not coming from bots. The reasoning is that the registration form is not through vBulletin. User registrations are handled by a separate CMS. So the bots would have to know to submit the registration request through one system and login to the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lindahl
what about a question at registration?
skiing is done on what? [four letters]
a single wide ski is called a what? [9 letters]
That doesn't sound hard for a bot if it just goes through web address and looks for field tags. Banning characters not of the Roman Alphabet or Arabic Number System would be a good start. Basically, the list of things to include in thread titles would be shorter than the list of exclusions. That would tell you right away if it's a bot. That and some kind of Captcha. Are you using any of that at all? Look at this one at the bottom of the page.
My knowledge of this is pretty limited, but I see lots of simple pages NOT covered in spam. Perhaps moderator approval of all new posters' threads? That would be a bit hard on the admin end, but it would be about the same or less work than you're doing now. Basically a new user gets 1 posts until it is approved by a mod, much the same way new users can't posts links. Is that something you can implement in vBulletin?
Just signed out and clicked sign up, and there is literally nothing there as far as spambot prevention. Nothing. It doesn't matter if it's a different back end. If you have Chrome, do an Inspect Element on the text fields on your signup page. It's just basic field tags or whatever it's called. Is there at least a conformation email with a link you have to click before you can post? Can you ban the domains of the email addresses being given for signup?
I'd be upset if I actually paid for this, but I don't so just consider these strong suggestions.
Posting patterns would be time of day, frequency, could incorporate whois also - not necessarily just content. But yeah, ban non-english and then use keywords.Quote:
Originally Posted by atw527
For registration, thats why you use a logic list. They're unlikely english speaking or skiers. Pretty easy to use domain knowledge to kill bots and foreign humans.
See, I knew someone would actually read the comments when spam is reported. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tye 1on
Captcha's can be annoying, but using one to validate new registrations would probably help quite a bit.