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#21 McMurphy

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Posted 28 July 2013 - 11:15 AM

I don't know. Every time I visit here, I haven't actually come across spambots. They seem to be wrangled rather quickly, and, as it has been suggested prior in this discussion, a few spambots sneaking their way in not a big deal.

 

I think people are not taking in account that there is no lasting defense against spambots. Forum administrators are forced to continuously update their defenses. What was once a perfect solution one year is cracked the following. For example, my community had its six year anniversary last June. To celebrate, I thought it would be fun to return the forums to how they appeared years ago for a weekend. With the first half of an hour of the rollback, I had fifty spambots flood the forum...and that isn't even counting the ones that simply registered an account and hadn't responded to the verifying email. Naturally, I scrapped that idea!

 

In other words, it seems like the spam counter-measures here are up to date, and the staff is doing an excellent job removing the handful of knuckleheads that slip through the cracks in a reasonable span of time.


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#22 Alex Wolfers

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Posted 28 July 2013 - 05:27 PM

I just got off hiatus so I didn't notice. I hate those damn spambots. Thats why the sign up process needs changed.


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Posted 28 July 2013 - 07:07 PM

Feld0 is too lazy to come on here and actually do something about it. So he leaves Mournblade to fend for himself and fed him to the pack of wolves. 


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Posted 28 July 2013 - 11:12 PM

Feld0 is too lazy to come on here and actually do something about it. So he leaves Mournblade to fend for himself and fed him to the pack of wolves. 

Feld0 isn't lazy. Just negligent. :/


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Posted 28 July 2013 - 11:31 PM

I think that the registration form should ask a couple questions that any Wii U owner would know, this being a Wii U forum. t might help. Don't know which questions off hand though.


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Posted 29 July 2013 - 03:38 AM

How about a Spam-O-Matic mod for the forums? Could help, at least a bit.

 

http://www.vbulletin...ad.php?t=248042

 

Think you could add this, admins?


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#27 Xiombarg

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Posted 29 July 2013 - 07:43 AM

I think that the registration form should ask a couple questions that any Wii U owner would know, this being a Wii U forum. t might help. Don't know which questions off hand though.

I'm considering editing that.  Do you or anyone else have any suggestions?

 

How about a Spam-O-Matic mod for the forums? Could help, at least a bit.

 

http://www.vbulletin...ad.php?t=248042

 

Think you could add this, admins?

We actually have that tool, or another version of that.  Currently it has stopped around 6000 something bots just this month alone.



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Posted 29 July 2013 - 09:28 AM

I don't know why everyone is getting so pissy about it. When a mod signs on they can get rid of them quickly.

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Posted 29 July 2013 - 03:41 PM

We actually have that tool, or another version of that.  Currently it has stopped around 6000 something bots just this month alone.

Good, I can't imagine the forums having that many spambots.


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Posted 30 July 2013 - 04:28 AM

I think that the registration form should ask a couple questions that any Wii U owner would know, this being a Wii U forum. t might help. Don't know which questions off hand though.

We do.
It's a small pool though, only 3 answers I believe.
It was brought up in an earlier thread about this.
 

I'm considering editing that.  Do you or anyone else have any suggestions?

You need a larger pool of questions/answers, or a straight-up proper capcha.
Also, make sure it's not skipable. either whoever wants the bots here knows all the answers to the questions at registration or can just ignore the question and register anyway.

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