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Post by Eternal Optimist on Oct 3, 2020 17:40:29 GMT 1
Reported.
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Post by webmaster on Oct 4, 2020 16:48:51 GMT 1
Account deleted, member banned
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Post by misterm on Oct 5, 2020 13:32:59 GMT 1
As can be seen from the latest spam thread, I think that banning the member is a short term, but ultimately futile, response. They just re-apply as a new member. You may have some success blocking that IP address.
I am admin responsible for new member accounts on the largest global slot car forum and we use a "question and answer" challenge for new member applications. Over night that cut out the hundreds of spambot registrations every day, so we now have a few persistent spammers that bother to google the answer to the question and I can reject them after using a couple of useful free tools on the net which show their location and whether they have been reported for spamming before.
For this site, something simple but car-related would probably be fine, it can even have multiple acceptable answers, so "name a British car maker of the 60s".
Of course, that's if this particular Bulletin Board software has those features, but I imagine it will be available somewhere in the workings.
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Post by Eternal Optimist on Oct 6, 2020 23:13:40 GMT 1
This is a Proboards forum. They’re bound to have all the tools necessary to reduce the likelihood of bots getting through.
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Post by webmaster on Oct 7, 2020 8:54:26 GMT 1
Each new member application now requires approval before they can participate. Malicious applications should easily be spotted
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Post by Eternal Optimist on Oct 9, 2020 6:53:41 GMT 1
Good news. Surprised this hadn’t been addressed before, I can’t think of any forum I’ve joined over the past few years that didn’t have a check step to stop bots joining.
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Post by gettinolderdaily on Oct 18, 2020 23:46:31 GMT 1
Hi all as one who does not understand any of that I just thank all you lot that do and can police these robot attacks sometimes I have posted and then seen a comment that we've been spammed and thought they were referring to me but probably I was incorrect sorry old I have also found that I you deliberately try to say something badly ,mispelfor instance comically the auto spellcheck corrects what you put and makes it look nonsense regs phil
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