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nitrocan
Guest
wikipedia said:
Spammers to me, seem like humans and they aren't trying to fill all the forums with massive amount of spam. They just open one account, send a couple of messages and then disappear.
Dealing with spammer accounts
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Spammers to me, seem like humans and they aren't trying to fill all the forums with massive amount of spam. They just open one account, send a couple of messages and then disappear.
Stefan
Legend
Yeah. So what? I still think you misunderstand. Do you think they're real people filling out the forms individually?
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nitrocan
Guest
Since we see about 5-10 spammers a month, I don't think it matters if they are filled by humans or not (or am I wrong about 5-10 spammers?)
I am assuming that the spammers are humans due to the verification/email combination. Yes, several bots can read CAPTCHA, but many can't. Are bots able to activate links via email these days? I'm guessing few can, so few they we don't need to worry about it. I am thinking of implementing reCAPTCHA. I've used it elsewhere and it has worked quite well. With a combination of this, along with a simple question, it should work out. Worse comes to worse is we can manually go through and accept them that way.
ExoCorsair
Member
I have a reCAPTCHA on my site for comments, and I still get spam comments occasionally.
Granted, the number has dropped dramatically, but still.
I think there should be an auto-ban for users that register with 1 as their WCA ID.
Granted, the number has dropped dramatically, but still.
I think there should be an auto-ban for users that register with 1 as their WCA ID.
Then they would use 2 or not even put it there.
ExoCorsair
Member
Roughly half the spammer accounts so far have had 1 as their WCA IDs.
fcwy1
Regular
i personally feel that it would be better if there are more admins and moderators.
maybe make one moderator for each category?
the moderators can ensure that people stick to their topic, don't flame each other or break any of the rules
maybe make one moderator for each category?
the moderators can ensure that people stick to their topic, don't flame each other or break any of the rules
TimMc
Premium Member
Just ask a series of questions related to the rules. Do it in such a way that the user will need to read all the rules before registering. You could ask 10 or so questions, each based on rules presented every 10% of the way through the page.
To keep the questions random, you could come up with a few hundred (some just reworded). And never offer more than "x" amount of questions to a particular IP.
Then again, you can just manually screen them like twisty's
Tim.
To keep the questions random, you could come up with a few hundred (some just reworded). And never offer more than "x" amount of questions to a particular IP.
Then again, you can just manually screen them like twisty's
Tim.
Stefan
Legend
I'd like to see the let's say latest three spammer messages to check something, can a moderator post them here or send me some?
PCwizCube
Premium Member
I'm sorry, I've read your post like 10 times but I still can't understand what you're trying to say.
Doing an auto-ban for people who put 1 for their WCA would probably work. I will look in it.
Asking questions about the rules would be nice, but that means manually reviewing each account. If we are going to manually review every account, why not ask them why they want to join? It would be much easier.
Stefan, I sent you an email with 3 of them.
Asking questions about the rules would be nice, but that means manually reviewing each account. If we are going to manually review every account, why not ask them why they want to join? It would be much easier.
Stefan, I sent you an email with 3 of them.
CAT13
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Maybe you could have some sort of cube applet thing so that the register has to solve it to register If they can't do it, then maybe they can fill out a form or something.
If they can't do it, then maybe they can fill out a form or something.
waffle=ijm
Waffo
They've been all about World of Warcraft gold and ads to sell cars. Yes, completely pointless but nevertheless spam
ExoCorsair
Member
In case anyone else is interested: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y216/ExoCorsair/spam.jpg
I installed a new little feature. When a user registers, they will have to either type the word 'cube' into a box, or type the number of sides on a Rubik's cube. This should help somewhat.
fanwuq
Legend
Yeah.... We really need to revive this thread to deal with it.Asking cubing questions is a must for joining this forum.
Before the spam was harmless and annoying. Now, it's just disgusting. It's so disgusting!!!!!
AvGalen
Premium Member
Could we pleeeeeeeeease use the captcha that is used on this site: http://blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/blo...chive/2008/12/19/sql-server-2005-sp3-rtw.aspx 
