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dingo_d
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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 10:15    Post subject: Bot question for admins
How do you fight the damn things? I don't see any "buy viagra" or "free porn" posts/topics here. On my uni forum we have quite a problem with this. Every now and then we're having major spam attack. Is there some smart way to fight agains these nasty fuckers? Keep them from registering or (yes they're registering...)? We have CAPTCHA but apparently it's not working... So any advice would be great!


"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
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chiv wrote:
thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found.

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tainted4ever
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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 10:17    Post subject:
They appear to use a non-standard version of phpBB. Change enough things around and I think it fucks up the bots. Dunno, perhaps Rinze will answer, I don't know squat myself and can only speculate.


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LeoNatan
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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 11:13    Post subject:
Until someone invests enough time to modify the bots. I guess it comes down to no one wanting to do this to nfohump specifically.
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dingo_d
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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 12:37    Post subject:
or we're just too special Very Happy


"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson
chiv wrote:
thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found.

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bushwacka




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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 13:42    Post subject:
it's probably the 24h wait before post thing. as long as the spamming for this site doesn't get customized, it should be enough to throw a log between the legs of xrumer et al.
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Rinze
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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 16:32    Post subject:
We don't do anything special and we didn't get bots before we implemented the 2 day wait before posting either. I suspect it has something to do with how registration here works.

We have a custom form to register for the site, then when you visit the forum while logged in it will create a forum account and the two day wait starts.

The first thing I would try is to simply rename the registration form and the links to it.
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dingo_d
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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 18:25    Post subject:
Thnx for the answer Rinze I'll pass it to my uni forum and hopefully it'll help!


"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson
chiv wrote:
thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found.

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