Can we have a forum to move the spammer crap into??

David Claflin · Post by **David Claflin** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:45 pm

It's annoying seeing the junk on here, IMHO

Cougar5.0 · Post by **Cougar5.0** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:55 pm

An 'alert' button would let us notify Admin to move or delete the message.

Post by **cgrey8** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:11 pm

Would admin consider one of the regulars or "Tuning Addicts" to serve as moderator so they could do that?

JuiceSC · Post by **JuiceSC** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 10:44 am

This is getting worse than my own home email. I'm curious though, why this forum has soo many? I frequent other forums and have not really seen any of this kind of BS.

I wish there was a way to Ekick them in the ballz.

sailorbob · Post by **sailorbob** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:42 am

I think the answer lies in the number of moderators for this forum (one!) and how often he frequents us still.

Post by **cgrey8** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:54 am

Like I said, the site needs a moderator that's a regular.

Post by **2Shaker** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:36 pm

I sent a note to Jon asking him to remove these and also asked if he would consider one of us as a moderator to help out. I'll let you know if I hear anything.

Cougar5.0 · Post by **Cougar5.0** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:07 am

Yeah, I would volunteer as a moderator - not like it's a lot of work to occasionally have to remove a spam post or two - they're really going off the deep end lately...

do'h · Post by **do'h** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:59 am

Lets get em boys........

indy2000 · Post by **indy2000** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:49 am

I nominate Couger5.0

Post by **2Shaker** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:43 pm

No response from Jon yet.

Cougar5.0 · Post by **Cougar5.0** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:51 pm

I sent an email as well...

Cougar5.0 · Post by **Cougar5.0** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:00 pm

JOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNN!!!!!!!

HELP!! We are being drowned in SPAM here!!!!!

Post by **2Shaker** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:51 pm

This is ridiculous! Does anybody know how to get his attention? I think I'll try an E-mail to Mike Glover, even though it will probably be another exercise in futility. For some reason I have the impression that the two know each other quite well, or at least know how to get to one another.

Post by **2Shaker** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:01 pm

OK. I sent a note to Mike, and I donated $25 to Jon in hopes it would get him to look in on us.

JuiceSC · Post by **JuiceSC** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:13 pm

Do these people make money doing this crap or what?

Cougar5.0 · Post by **Cougar5.0** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:01 pm

JuiceSC wrote:Do these people make money doing this crap or what?

They should be earning a bloody lip IMHO

JuiceSC · Post by **JuiceSC** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:23 pm

Cougar5.0 wrote:
JuiceSC wrote:Do these people make money doing this crap or what?
They should be earning a bloody lip IMHO

I'm tellin ya, if I EVER meet anyone in person who admits to spamming, I am fcking kicking them in the ballz.

Post by **Jon 94GT** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:55 pm

Holy CRAP, sorry guys, just started a new job and have been consumed with it....

I'm cleaning it all up right now, damnit, i cant take a break for even a couple weeks!

Whew! Sorry guys!

Post by **2Shaker** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:46 pm

Jon,

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **2Shaker** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:33 am

I don't know how many of you are seeing the SPAM, but we are getting creamed with it. I am in here 2-4 times a day and usually have to remove 2 or 3 of these each day. So bear with me, I will keep it cleaned up but there may be times when I haven't checked for a while, but no more than 24 hours.

sailorbob · Post by **sailorbob** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:38 am

Is there a way of tightening up the registration process to stop/reduce spammers getting onto the forum?

Post by **cgrey8** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:43 am

Other phpBB forums have those bot-eliminator GIF files that give you a series of wacky numbers and letters that a computer couldn't easily identify but humans have a close chance of seeing. The person registering on the board has to be able to give the proper response and if they can't, they don't get registered. This stops automated registration attempts, but still doesn't stop the ones that actually are typing in those numbers. However since that was implemented over at V8-Ranger.com, I haven't seen spam there since and the moderator logs on maybe once a day if that.

I emailed him requesting details of what it took to implement so I can forward it onto Jon and 2Shaker. I don't know if it is freeware or not...

Post by **2Shaker** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:32 pm

I got a PM back from Jon promising he would look into it maybe over the weekend.

twinturbostang · Post by **twinturbostang** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:49 pm

cgrey8 wrote:Other phpBB forums have those bot-eliminator GIF files that give you a series of wacky numbers and letters that a computer couldn't easily identify but humans have a close chance of seeing. The person registering on the board has to be able to give the proper response and if they can't, they don't get registered. This stops automated registration attempts, but still doesn't stop the ones that actually are typing in those numbers. However since that was implemented over at V8-Ranger.com, I haven't seen spam there since and the moderator logs on maybe once a day if that.

I now have this feature enabled on my forum, and since then, I get very little spam posts. Every once and a while, one gets through. But like you said... that may be an actual person doing the registration. Before I had this enabled, it was starting to get out of hand. Well, at least for my small little corner of the internet. :)

Post by **cgrey8** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:59 pm

I've heard there are python scripts that people have written that actually identify the characters in those GIFs. I don't know what their success rate is, but if they can do it at all, that's impressive. I have a hard time making out some of those characters.

But I hear there are other neat ways you can "catch" the bots and that's by programming standard fields as invisible fields, but the bots will find them and attempt to put crap into them thinking they are needed like password fields. But in reality, your script is looking for info to be submitted in these fields and thus catches the bots. A person trying to register wouldn't see the hidden field and would use some other field you provide.

Kinda neat...

twinturbostang · Post by **twinturbostang** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:15 pm

cgrey8 wrote:But I hear there are other neat ways you can "catch" the bots and that's by programming standard fields as invisible fields, but the bots will find them and attempt to put crap into them thinking they are needed like password fields. But in reality, your script is looking for info to be submitted in these fields and thus catches the bots. A person trying to register wouldn't see the hidden field and would use some other field you provide.

Kinda neat...

Clever! :)

Post by **Jon 94GT** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:38 pm

Yep, I will look into it soon guys, hopefully tonight or tomorrow. It really depends on when I get some spare time...I am swamped with a bagillion other projects right now.

The idea about the hidden fields, great idea, I will see about implementing that in some manner...as well as looking into that script linked to also.

Sorry for the spam guys, should have something in place to help reduce it soon.

-Jon

Post by **2Shaker** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:29 pm

Jon, where are you? I'm removing 10 -15 a day now.

I hate these spammer bastards. If I ever caught one my next place of residence would be jail, but then maybe the judge would sympathize having also been victim to this crap.

Can we have a forum to move the spammer crap into??

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