Forum - View topicThis place seems to be haven for bots and spam
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DragonsRevenge
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Why is that? Isnt there some sort of filter or something? Cant you do that little alphanumeric password for new registrations that prevent bots from sneaking in?
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Zarabadoo
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phpBB is a magnet for bots. That is what you get for being top dog unfortunately. every installation I see seems to attract them like flies. It is one of the reasons I tend to go with Simple Machines forum with every forum I set up.
Hopefully whenever the next major version of phpBB comes out it will have fixed some of the bot holes. As for right now, I can't see a lot they can do to because even CAPTCHA doesn't seem to work a lot of times. |
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fighterholic
Posts: 9193 |
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Rest assured, if you have problems with spambots here, just notify admin (Zac, tempest) and they will be sure to take care of it. |
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Zalis116
Moderator
Posts: 6897 Location: Kazune City |
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fighterholic
Posts: 9193 |
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I know that, but to my understanding only admin can ban posters. |
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ManOfRust
Posts: 1935 Location: Seattle, WA |
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They do seem to be posting within existing threads more than they used to. I just reported a whole bunch of garbage on the Australia forum. Is that part of the mod's normal territory? Some of them were from a day or two ago, and one topic has been completely overrun.
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Keonyn
Subscriber
Posts: 5567 Location: Coon Rapids, MN |
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Well, unfortunately I can not do anything in the Australian forums nor do we get those reports. I think there are mods specific to the Australian portion of the forums.
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3791 Location: Montreal |
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I've just added a simple spam filter. We'll see if it helps.
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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Sadly, no. |
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