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Post by shirogake on Mar 4, 2009 16:25:20 GMT -5
I've noticed that a number of spambots are beginning to return.
To deal with this problem, I think that the best way is to disable guest posting completely.
The reason being is that spambots only post as guests. With a code being required to create an account, this would disable all spambot activities. This also means that you'd be unable to post as a guest, but it's worth it to rid this forum of spambots.
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Post by General Veers on Mar 4, 2009 16:46:41 GMT -5
Well, could guests be made to be "read-only" accounts, so that someone who forgot a password would be able to see what email to send a help message to?
If that's even possible?
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Post by shirogake on Mar 4, 2009 16:50:01 GMT -5
It's possible. On my friend's forum, guests can't even view any of the boards.
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Post by V.I.R.O.S. on Mar 4, 2009 19:16:13 GMT -5
It's a good thing I made an account, then.
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Post by Sand Master on Mar 5, 2009 18:16:46 GMT -5
I like the guest posts. When the spambots reach 2006-level, then we can disable it.
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Post by TBP on Mar 16, 2009 12:16:07 GMT -5
There seems to be a lot of spam bots posting in that glitches thread in powder game... =/
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Post by General Veers on Mar 16, 2009 16:22:59 GMT -5
Have I missed any of them? I'll check it out now... EDIT: No, I got them all, and M4 and Secret and G had their say in it, too.  |
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Post by G on Mar 16, 2009 19:39:57 GMT -5
hehe...
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Post by Sandmaster on Mar 24, 2009 10:44:09 GMT -5
IMPORTANT
2006-level bots have NEVER guest-posted. Disabling guest-posting will likely not do anything once these bots become more powerful. It would be best that we leave the guest posts because if they WERE to get worse we can't do anything about that regardless of guests.
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Post by Qwerty on Mar 24, 2009 17:26:19 GMT -5
Actually, we could. We disable making new accounts!
Then we delete the ones they do have...
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Post by V.I.R.O.S. on Mar 25, 2009 5:17:26 GMT -5
That's seems a little counter-productive... We only have about 20-25 regularly active members right now.
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Post by Sandmaster on Mar 25, 2009 7:36:02 GMT -5
Yeah, we got a few accounts in the BSGF that we woulnd't have got if we disabled the spambots. We had to wait out the entire 2006 wave...
Actually we DID semi-disable them, but we almost dies in the proicess.
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Post by Qwerty on Mar 29, 2009 22:26:33 GMT -5
Well, we can make sure all accounts have to be activated by staff.
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Post by greenpatatoe on Mar 30, 2009 0:56:39 GMT -5
WOW! I didn't think Spam Bits could get this bad im glad i made an account while i could...
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Post by Qwerty on Mar 30, 2009 20:11:00 GMT -5
This isn't bad at all, compared to 2006...
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Post by The Dark Master on Apr 4, 2009 13:38:56 GMT -5
what do you mean by '2006'?
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Post by Randomness on Apr 20, 2009 2:55:15 GMT -5
2006 was the spambot apocolypse
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Post by Qwerty on Apr 20, 2009 9:04:53 GMT -5
Oh yes. Look around, you can still see the shattered remnants of the forums that died there...
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Post by The Dark Master on Apr 20, 2009 10:53:25 GMT -5
I has a plan to get rid of the spambots! If the spambots post as members then can't you edit their accounts and change their timezone to somehwere in the world where no-one lives like Greenland and then ban from that timezone?
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Post by General Veers on Apr 20, 2009 17:22:13 GMT -5
That would be discrimination on account of a trait that does not affect intelligence level, which is not the least bit good.
...On the other hand, discrimination on account of intelligence, how germane posts are, etc. are acceptable forms of separation...
In short, let's not ban by time zone. I don't even know that such a ban is possible, even for my AT-ATs...
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