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Aron Schatz

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New Spam controls coming soon

Sun Dec 2, 2012 12:29:42 AM #269721 Perm Link

I'll be doing better Captchas soon for these spam accounts and start banning entire domains for registering.

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Sun Dec 2, 2012 10:31:14 AM #269733 Perm Link

Will there be thread deletion too? Would certainly clean up stuff a lot.

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Sun Dec 2, 2012 3:00:13 PM #269743 Perm Link

Huzzah for captchas!

(credit goes to holmes for this pic :3 )

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Aron Schatz

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Mon Dec 3, 2012 12:00:16 AM #269759 Perm Link

Yes, all those spam threads will be taken care of this week.

Stuff is annoying.

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Mon Dec 3, 2012 1:03:55 PM #269777 Perm Link

Are you going to use Recaptcha?

Captchas are a good thing, I'm getting sick and tired of all the spam here.

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Aron Schatz

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Mon Dec 3, 2012 9:32:38 PM #269805 Perm Link

In response to WhiteEagle #269777

Yeah, probably.

It is also easier for me to delete all posts and ban someone now.

I need to now add ban lists for email addresses. The feature is there, I just need to remember where to put everything, ha.

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Tue Dec 4, 2012 12:07:17 PM #269829 Perm Link

Need a list of spambots that you could add to your .htaccess file to ban them? I can provide such a list.

May I also suggest adding support for stopforumspam.com? That would check all registrants IP addresses against a known database of spammers and would block their registration here. An API key is free. ;)

Edited at Tue Dec 4, 2012 12:09:09 PM

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Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:03:47 PM #270693 Perm Link

It's not bots...

It's actual people registering and posting stuff.

I've banned the email domains they are registering with. The spam should subside for a bit.

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Sat Dec 15, 2012 5:40:22 PM #270760 Perm Link

Could you consider adding a report button so that we can report it when we see it?

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