DraStic

Exophase wrote:The bots already wait after registering before posting.. and the last thing I want to do is punish anyone for not knowing Pokemon :/

huckleberrypie wrote:

Exophase wrote:The bots already wait after registering before posting.. and the last thing I want to do is punish anyone for not knowing Pokemon :/

Based on what I've observed the spam seems to be coming from a single source. Blanket-banning a country or two isn't an option either, given how there are some legit users from China.

Oh, and how about this? What if we move to PHPBB3 (well since this site appears to be running on 2.x) or better yet MyBB? Not sure how that would fare migration-wise, but in my case I never had any spam troubles ever since I used a spam blacklist mod.

huckleberrypie wrote:Based on what I've observed the spam seems to be coming from a single source. Blanket-banning a country or two isn't an option either, given how there are some legit users from China.

huckleberrypie wrote:
I've been IP banning them again, that should help.. slightly. I can wildcard to some extent but they're coming from a fair different number of blocks.

huckleberrypie wrote:Oh, and how about this? What if we move to PHPBB3 (well since this site appears to be running on 2.x) or better yet MyBB? Not sure how that would fare migration-wise, but in my case I never had any spam troubles ever since I used a spam blacklist mod.

Exophase wrote:You probably got this from IRC, but for what it's worth we're already on phpBB3. It was 3.0.11, but I upgraded to 3.0.12.

It turns out I don't even have founder status, the owner of the web space set it up for me and has it, and that's probably why I'm not able to install AutoMOD. Hopefully the founder will set my status soon, if not I'll go in and hack the MySQL database.

Exophase wrote:And almost no sooner than you post this do we get hit with dozens of spam messages. Normally when they get through just a few things get posted. I really don't want to set a tight frequency post limit for new posters but I also really don't want to have to manually remove a ton of spam :/

I'm guessing someone answered the registration question manually and maybe it's in some spammer database somewhere. We changed it before, but it's really hard to think of things that are going to be obvious to everyone who will want to post here.

huckleberrypie, do you use IRC? If so maybe we could talk about it more there..

kaikun97 wrote:you have an irc channel for drastic ds? whats the server and channel?

huckleberrypie wrote:What if we set up a Skype group session or some other venue besides IRC?

Exophase wrote:The bots already wait after registering before posting.. and the last thing I want to do is punish anyone for not knowing Pokemon :/