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Re: Spam
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Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:24 am
by Thorondor
Re: Spam
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Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:41 am
by Thorondor
Re: Spam
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Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:39 am
by Thorondor
Re: Spam
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Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:07 pm
by Thorondor
Re: Spam
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Mon Oct 18, 2010 9:42 am
by Thorondor
Re: Spam
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Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:53 pm
by Thorondor
Re: Spam
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Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:19 pm
by Thorondor
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=14991Pretty sure they're a bot...their sig line has links to stuff that didn't look like fighting stuff (at first glance)...
Re: Spam
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Sat Nov 06, 2010 7:15 am
by Richard le Gris
Re: Spam
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Tue Nov 16, 2010 5:57 am
by Black Cat
Re: Spam
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Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:20 am
by Richard le Gris
Re: Spam
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:16 am
by Black Cat
Re: Spam
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Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:23 pm
by Black Cat
Re: Spam
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 8:22 pm
by Black Cat
Re: Spam
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Wed Dec 22, 2010 2:08 am
by Black Cat
Re: Spam
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Sun Dec 26, 2010 3:03 am
by Black Cat
Re: Spam
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Mon Dec 27, 2010 5:18 am
by Black Cat
Re: Spam
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Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:38 am
by Ignatius
Re: Spam
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Thu Dec 30, 2010 5:18 am
by Saxavarius
Re: Spam
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Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:34 pm
by Tiberius Claudius
Re: Spam
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Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:24 pm
by Embara Cayosin
Re: Spam
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Mon Jan 10, 2011 12:41 am
by Tiberius Claudius
Re: Spam
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Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:19 am
by Ignatius
Re: Spam
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Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:25 am
by Tiberius Claudius
Re: Spam
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Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:01 pm
by Tails
Re: Spam
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Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:55 am
by Ignatius
Re: Spam
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Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:40 pm
by Ignatius
Re: Spam
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Sat Jan 22, 2011 8:35 pm
by Tails
Re: Spam
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Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:02 am
by PhotoJoe
Re: Spam
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Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:43 am
by Kensman Bam
Der,
If you need extra admins to help out, let me know what I can do.
Re: Spam
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Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:11 am
by PhotoJoe
Re: Spam
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Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:54 am
by Black Cat
Re: Spam
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:36 am
by Black Cat
Re: Spam
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 4:00 am
by Black Cat
Microsoft Xbox points bot. Looks shady.
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=15680
Re: Spam
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:43 am
by Tails
Re: Spam
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:01 am
by Wrath555
try a captcha at login. kills spam dead.
Re: Spam
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:41 am
by Ignatius
Re: Spam
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:17 am
by Derian
Wrath555 wrote:try a captcha at login. kills spam dead.
This isn't a realistic solution, unfortunately. It would require forcing everyone to log in each time they visit the forums (instead of saving their login) and would put a noticeable extra amount of load on the server as GD would have to generate a new image every single time someone visited the boards.
Also, the bots are pretty good at breaking these captchas anyways. It's set to only allow two captcha attempts when registering and you see how many get through.
Re: Spam
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 11:45 am
by Derian
I modified the default style to allow for a Q&A captcha that shouldn't be solvable by bots. This should prevent the registration of new bots, but there are still some that are already registered and may come back and post.
Keep reporting them as normal and we'll keep deleting them.
Re: Spam
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:50 pm
by Ignatius
I was bored the other day and counted this up. We have a little over 4,850 people registered. Of that, 3,262 have posted less than 10 times. 1,318 have never posted.
Is there an easy way to clean up those that haven't posted or haven't been on in a really long time? I don't know if we can tell how long the bots you've already deleted were registered, but god knows how many of the accounts who've never posted have been here for ages and could be bots.
Re: Spam
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Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:32 pm
by Derian
Well, it would be fairly trivial to delete any account that has never posted, but the problem is there are a lot of people who have registered but never posted.
Re: Spam
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Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:20 am
by Ignatius
What about people who have never posted and haven't gotten on in x amount of time? Or have only gotten on a few times or even once. Do you have access to all that info?
Re: Spam
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Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:29 am
by Galya
I can pretty much guarantee that he does. The problem is where do you set the standard for active vs. not? I know people from my realm who signed up for the boards just as a placeholder for their fighting name. And who knows? Maybe they'll use it one day. It's tough to judge what to delete and what not to without stepping on people's toes.
Re: Spam
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Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:15 pm
by Derian
Yep, Galya has the right of it.
The database doesn't have all of that info, but it does store the last login date.
Re: Spam
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Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:17 pm
by Ignatius
Have most of the bots we've been dealing with been sleeping for long? Or do the make an account and post right away? If lots of them have been sleepers and we get almost no new bots maybe cleaning the database would have to go to WC as an option. Just my thoughts on the situation, but those bots are damned annoying. And I imagine you guys hate them more than I do since you have to get rid of em.
Re: Spam
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Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:38 pm
by Derian
Eh, they are annoying, but they really don't hurt anything.
Deleting them (along with all their posts in one swoop) literally takes about 4 seconds from start to finish. It's going to be about a thousand times more hassle to figure out how to clean out the remaining bots that haven't yet posted.
Plus, this will risk deleting valid accounts, including any PMs, settings or group memberships these users might have.
IMO, it's really not worth the extra effort and time it will take. We can continue to delete them as they pop up, because the flow of new bots should be completely ceased as of yesterday.
Re: Spam
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Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:41 pm
by Ignatius
Cool cool man. I suppose I'll just go back to reporten em when I see em. Glad to hear they aren't a pain to deal with at least. And I'm really glad to hear we shouldn't be getting any new ones.
Re: Spam
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Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:45 pm
by Derian
Yep. It's entirely possible that the old bots won't even post, so there's that too.
Re: Spam
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Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:14 am
by Black Cat
Re: Spam
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Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:08 pm
by Caleidah
Re: Spam
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Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:17 pm
by Black Cat
Justin Beaver... uh, I mean Bieber spambot.
Times 60. Good Grief.
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