Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

a) need a better verification system for registration and starting threads.
b) make a few tmo members mods who can benefit from the time differences and block and delete spam.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Also, we need a way to remotely electrocute spammers... maybe a few TMO members too. ;)

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

I wish Ignore was powerful enough to also hide any threads started by the ignored person |:/

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

My theory is that You should not read so much conspiracy theories. Protection mechanism in (closed source!) vbulleting is just very aged.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

This may be helpful - a bunch of mods for vBulletin to prevent spambots:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...light=spambots

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...light=spambots

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...light=spambots

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...light=spambots

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...light=spambots

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...light=spambots

Some of the plugins seems more sane than another - especially the last one sounds great. Anyway, I'm posting them all, just in case.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

If there are any spam threads on how to increase one's private junk size, mind saving those for me? :)

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Your inadequacy is duly noted.

:p

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Please mods give the right to delete threads and ban users to some respectable community members so that you don't have to waste so much time fighting the bots. And we have to start thinking about moving to a more modern and preferably open source bulletin board software

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

There is a new generation of spambots.

There are several anti-spam plugins installed on the forum already:

1. Random Image Verification:
https://img.skitch.com/20110918-rqeg...jp.preview.jpg

2. vbStopForum Spam
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176481

3. Random Question
https://img.skitch.com/20110918-nbyj...4h6du9igsd.jpg

These are usually are enough to stop spambots.

I have now activated a level two spam check:

4. Spam Check 2:
https://img.skitch.com/20110918-b6u1...pdc5pnj43f.jpg

So, it's now four levels of spam protection. There is actually a 5th level where a range of IP address have been blocked already.

Anyway, I hope this slows them down. As always, if you see a spam post, don't bother replying to it. Just use the 'Report This' link and report it. No need to report all the posts of the same spammer. Just report one and we have a tool to delete all of its posts, ban it and its IP, and add its IP to the vbStopForum database so other forums using the plugin get protected as well.

Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Many thanks, Tex, Reggie, et all.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

= more moderators.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

I nominate myself to be excluded from such powers as I'm likely to corrupt everything. Just putting that out there. ;)

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

done .

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

I had to ban-and-clean another 4 accounts since... :(

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

I should have the right to delete and clean the bots out of this community as lets face it nothing much better to do these days and by god it is frustrating waiting for one of the mods to get in here and clean them out when i am sitting here watching it all happen EVERY day.

Well done Texrat and Reggie for starting the war against them.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

No. Just No.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Scared of something are you ;).

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Let's not turn another thread into one of those.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Reggie, please consider installing other protection method. Especially last one from my post - field during registration, invisible to user (so no user can fill it), but visible to bots, so they fill it and fail - seems interesting.

It's perfectly visible that this generation of spambots is immune to current protection method. I even doubt if 5th line. would work.

Remember, more niche (less popular) protection method is used, the more effective it's against bots. No one write special spambots for maemo.org. Our current protection methods are damn popular, so they're almost of no-use.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

I'm visiting tmo this weekend just to see what the battle plan is against these spambots. Far more interesting than the N9 is not here thread ;-)

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

(I can't help imagining that as the new Darth Vader voice-over)

Yes. I'm pretty sure what what he's afraid of is that you would be even more corrupting to this place than I would be with moderator powers. I can at least admit it. :)

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

LMfckedupAO :D

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

@danramos
Should I cry? Or laugh my guts out. LOL :D

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

You got that the wrong way round, i would in fact get rid of the corruption on this site and for sure a few would be designated the bullet thats for sure ;).

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Please, feel free to do both. Be sure to video record it for proper archival and scientific reference.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

The spam is out of control. Games shows 900 people viewing, one of the threads: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=77165

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 340 (1 members and 339 guests)
szopin
This had already 140 views, looks like ddos (tmo is working awfully slow to me, anyone else?)

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Heads up. Incoming spam...ban all people from us.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

These security modifications useless while they are only on the search page. these bots not searching for posts or threads, they are POSTING new threads

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Games (3831 Viewing) :/

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

report them to their ISPs..

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6 more accounts just now banned and cleaned.

This is ridiculous.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

the bots' numbers are declining rapidly, they are under 2.5k now !

also, this is new:
Most users ever online was 6,783, Today at 08:32 PM.

how many IDs have these bots registered already ? I fear the big crowd of bots have not posted yet, but has already registered, maybe that's why the additional security question has no effect ? as they simply registered before that took effect.
this can also explain the very high number of users, that logged in today.

as a counter measure, please completely stop new registrations at talk.maemo.org, (maybe add a request for invitation form instead), and ban and delete all accounts with zero posts that has registered in the last 2 weeks.

hopefully, there will be minimal collateral damage if this is done..

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Hello, everybody!
Just a quick thought.
Since most of the people who have maemo device or are anyhow involved into developing/testing/programming stuff have already registered on this forum, I suggest creating an invitation system. What do You think, guys?

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

I wouldn't be here if it be via invite system. Not that I'm in any way a good contributor, but I believe that an invite system is more likely to drive away good than bad users. And at any rate, all a bad guy need is just ONE invite, than he can invite like 10 fakes that will then invite other 100 fakes and start all over again. While I would still be out, for instance.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

I had a strong feeling this was going to esculate into a rather huge problem so more reason for help for the mods, if suggestions can be made i am sure everyone will help.

Texrat is going to be extremely overworked and already non paid.... ouch.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Well, it's more a pain for the community than it is for me. There are, after all, other moderators.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

I know I might not be a big user. If there is anything I could do to help I would be glad to do it.

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

Don't know if this has been talked about before, but how about adding captcha for starting a new thread?

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

From the thread Watch Philadelphia Phillies vs Atlanta Braves live Nfl online 2011, online Philadelphia Phillies vs Atlanta Braves

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 34 (1 members and 33 guests)


Can we please have the IP's for this bot posted?

Re: [Request] Help fight spam together!
 

might be a stupid idea but... could someone (moderator) shut down the games section of TMO until spam stops at least for 30 minutes?




edit lols i cant report anymore it times out