The Spam is driving me nuts!!

Discuss anything you like on this forum.
Post Reply
User avatar
matej
Licensed Customer
Posts: 2083
Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:54 pm
Location: Slovenia

I don't know how you moderator guys keep going on, I would return my sheriff badge to RS a long time ago. It would be understandable if help was needed for a month or two, until RS does the most needed patches, but this spam-fest-orgy is going on forever now... :lol:

This forum feels like those abandoned forums with obsolete software versions, not as a front-end of a serious business. :?
SW: Octane 3.05 | Linux Mint 18.1 64bit | Blender 2.78 HW: EVGA GTX 1070 | i5 2500K | 16GB RAM Drivers: 375.26
cgmo.net
Top
User avatar
Refracty
Licensed Customer
Posts: 1599
Joined: Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:42 pm
Location: 3D-Visualisierung Köln
Contact:
Contact Refracty

I don't know if this is difficult to implement but we should insert a

"approve first post of unregistered user by moderator" function
Top
User avatar
JimStar
OctaneRender Team
Posts: 3812
Joined: Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:19 pm
Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Good captcha by post submitting may be enough IMHO. Anyway it must be the first that should be made here...
Top
User avatar
pixelrush
Licensed Customer
Posts: 1618
Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:11 pm
Location: Nelson, New Zealand

Today I visited the forums and using the 'view new posts' button I got 3 pages of spam posts and 3 Octane related posts. It is completely unsatisfactory for a business to have this digital faeces smeared everywhere, however it is fairly easy to fix, so Refractive guys please do something about it. :evil: Perhaps you want to be known as a joke operation? :roll:
i7-3820 @4.3Ghz | 24gb | Win7pro-64
GTS 250 display + 2 x GTX 780 cuda| driver 331.65
Octane v1.55
Top
User avatar
roeland
OctaneRender Team
Posts: 1822
Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:09 pm

JimStar wrote:Good captcha by post submitting may be enough IMHO. Anyway it must be the first that should be made here...
We have a captcha for registration, but the problem is that some bots are better at solving these than humans :( .

--
Roeland
Top
User avatar
roeland
OctaneRender Team
Posts: 1822
Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:09 pm

I have switched on moderation for new users, so the first post of any user requires approval from a moderator. This will at least prevent spam from showing up on the forum, rendering it ineffective. I will leave it on for a while and see what happens.

--
Roeland
Top
User avatar
t_3
Posts: 2871
Joined: Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:37 pm

roeland wrote:I have switched on moderation for new users, so the first post of any user requires approval from a moderator. This will at least prevent spam from showing up on the forum, rendering it ineffective. I will leave it on for a while and see what happens.

--
Roeland
a first measure which will of course help. by the way, did you know that the default phpbb captcha was cracked long time ago? if this is, what you use for the forum, it won't keep any bot out these days...
„The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply ‟

1x i7 2600K @5.0 (Asrock Z77), 16GB, 2x Asus GTX Titan 6GB @1200/3100/6200
2x i7 2600K @4.5 (P8Z68 -V P), 12GB, 1x EVGA GTX 580 3GB @0900/2200/4400
Top
User avatar
t_3
Posts: 2871
Joined: Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:37 pm

ps: it would also be a good idea the clean the user db, at least the moment, when effective measures hold new bots back from registering, because there are thousands (literally) of potential spammers already in there; typical profile: 0 posts, never logged on since joining, funny homepage addresses or full filled out user profiles ... not hard to check. filtering and sorting db tables the right way it would be possible to delete them within hours...
„The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply ‟

1x i7 2600K @5.0 (Asrock Z77), 16GB, 2x Asus GTX Titan 6GB @1200/3100/6200
2x i7 2600K @4.5 (P8Z68 -V P), 12GB, 1x EVGA GTX 580 3GB @0900/2200/4400
Top
User avatar
JimStar
OctaneRender Team
Posts: 3812
Joined: Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:19 pm
Location: Auckland, New Zealand

roeland wrote:We have a captcha for registration, but the problem is that some bots are better at solving these than humans :( .
The key word was good captcha.:)
And some configurable questions, as bb3d wrote HERE may be good too. I just look at another sites as an example: a lot of forums work without premoderation and have no such amount of spam...
IMHO...

PS. I am ashamed, that a lot of this spam here comes from Russia...:(
Top
User avatar
JimStar
OctaneRender Team
Posts: 3812
Joined: Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:19 pm
Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Strange, I don't see any "first post premoderation"... I still see a lot of spam posts, as this one: http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... 21&t=14653
And autor user is registered AFTER the message about "premoderation started" was posted here, Joined: 02 Mar 2012 13:02
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Off Topic Forum”