Hello,

We've had a recent spat of Russian spambots to our little website. It added several dozen spam accounts to the site and caused all kinds of wonderful havoc. Because of this, we're shutting down the Registration for the website for a while to stop the bots from doing what they're been doing. I also deleted a LOT of accounts that I believed to be part of the tsunami. If I inadvertently deleted your account, please forgive me and contact me to let me know. We'll get you back onsite asap.

Best wishes everyone!

Brent / Argy / ArgyrosfeniX

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Recent Spam Posts

Unread postby ArgyrosfeniX » Mon Mar 14, 2016 5:42 pm

Hello All,

There have been some spam posts recently by registered users that have gotten past our filters.

I've increased their precision some and will be keeping an eye on new registrants to watch for new issues.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you everyone that is reporting these posts!

:mrgreen:

Brent / Argy / ArgyrosfeniX



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Re: Recent Spam Posts

Unread postby PS Power » Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:05 am

Damn... It isn't that Power guy shilling his books, is it?

I hate that!

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(No, I really do... Notice how I try not to do that all the time?)



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Re: Recent Spam Posts

Unread postby Korwin » Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:10 am

If it was that Power guy, he did in an non Standard language.



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Unread postby PS Power » Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:03 am

Horrible. You just can't trust some people, can you? (Non-Standard? Not great.)



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Re: Recent Spam Posts

Unread postby Korwin » Fri Mar 18, 2016 3:11 am

Definitly bad, my definition of non standard being, something I can't read...
non standard language is bad enough, but non standard letters?



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Re: Recent Spam Posts

Unread postby qHnED7SnYgQs » Sat Jun 25, 2016 4:54 am

The new spam posts are really getting annoying... is it possible to configure the board so that the first post of a new account needs to be moderated?



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Re: Recent Spam Posts

Unread postby David » Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:56 am

At least they are posing in off topic. Strange that.

I'm with you though, it's kind of annoying. I've been reading the new real posts and then using the mark as read feature, so... One or six it's the same effort.



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Re: Recent Spam Posts

Unread postby ArgyrosfeniX » Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:25 am





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Re: Recent Spam Posts

Unread postby qHnED7SnYgQs » Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:55 am

I would assume that the spamming is probably fully automated, in which case just moderating the first post, and permabanning the account if it's spam should do the trick. It's highly unlikely that any spammer would invest the necessary time toproduce a meaningful on-topic post that passes moderation before starting to spam.



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Re: Recent Spam Posts

Unread postby ArgyrosfeniX » Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:58 am

I believe I have it set so the first 3 posts by a user are now moderated. It isn't a specific setting, unfortunately, so it may take some tweaking to get it right.

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