yes i’ve noticed time of day as well. Is fine currently. 7 pm Central US
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Imperious Leader '17 '16 '15 Organizer '14 Customizer '13 '12 '11 '10last edited by Dec 5, 2010, 4:03 AM
I do know that when i ban say 15 guys in a row, the site cant be visited for like 5-8 minutes. Its locked up. I usually exterminate around 11am. The spam know this and largely sees when i am not logged in and then starts the nonsence. Id say on average 130 am-9am
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That is weird. I’m familiar with phpbb2. I didn’t bother banning people, I just didn’t let them link to their website until they had posted. Do you have email authentication on? That helps.
Unfortunately the evil spammers employ real people. So even a good captcha will only get you so far. Do you have one?
Captchas have been getting really hard to decipher recently, even if you are a real person.
On my blog I don’t approve users unless they manually email me. Depending on how much traffic you get, that might be less work.
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Instead of captchas, just ask a simple math problem.
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Imperious Leader '17 '16 '15 Organizer '14 Customizer '13 '12 '11 '10last edited by Dec 5, 2010, 4:58 AM
I figured they use humans to register. I notice some upswing in those i taunt, just to measure how they operate. They try again using proxy servers. I ban everything IP, Host, Name, email
This site does not have capabilities for capcha and eventually we are going over to a much better system. I would rather they cant even have any chance to load up anything in terms of a website, unless after a period of time and posts prove they are normal. For say default 100 posts all you can do is post in one place and extremely restricted ( no links, pics,websites) and just anything but AA related stuff, and latter they are approved and can post normally. Id also post specific hours that the site will even allow new memberships ( not at 1230 am-8am)
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@Imperious:
Id also post specific hours that the site will even allow new memberships ( not at 1230 am-8am)
Problem with this is that members are from all time zones.
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@Imperious:
It might have something to do with me banning 50 bogus spam accounts each day. I load up about 15 pages of the same link like this:
Then in rapid fire ban all the idiots trying to sell shoes and porno. As you can see we already got a new idiot whom i will exterminate shortly.
This work takes me at least 1 hour a day and i really enjoy my work. I also find some time to taunt each of them with insults in the hope that they will try harder to spam, of which i am all too keen to exterminate faster. I can dispatch them while they are trying to post and register, which is my favorite coupe de main.
Excellent. As Colonel Saito once said, “Be happy in your work.”
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Imperious Leader '17 '16 '15 Organizer '14 Customizer '13 '12 '11 '10last edited by Dec 5, 2010, 8:01 PM
It does not matter the hours i posted are based on when i am not around. They know this and start the problems after i leave. I posted the times that i see them according to my time zone, which is consistent with me not being around to monitor them.
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@Imperious:
It does not matter the hours i posted are based on when i am not around. They know this and start the problems after i leave. I posted the times that i see them according to my time zone, which is consistent with me not being around to monitor them.
Right, but people halfway around the world will not be able to register because they have to sleep.
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Imperious Leader '17 '16 '15 Organizer '14 Customizer '13 '12 '11 '10last edited by Dec 5, 2010, 8:08 PM
Right, but those people you speak of are spammers not normal members…If this site used the suggestion and posted specific times to enlist the filtering out of the spammers would be reduced by 98%.
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So everyone from Australia who joins is a spammer? Or just most of them?
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Imperious Leader '17 '16 '15 Organizer '14 Customizer '13 '12 '11 '10last edited by Dec 5, 2010, 8:29 PM
So everyone from Australia who joins is a spammer? Or just most of them?
No. everyone who seems to register between the hours of 130am- and 8am ( when they see i am not logged in) are spammers.
If even one of them is not it would have the occurrence of once in 20-30 days.
I don’t know where they come from but many of them use Yahoo.co.uk.
It doesn’t even matter because the site is not going to limit hours to join. I just have to keep exterminating them as they appear.
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IL, have you been deleting posts on this thread?
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=18879.new#newAbout 3 pages have disappeared.
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IL, you could just never log out(like me) and then you’ll always seem to be online. Since no one knows which time zone you live in, they won’t know if you’re actually at the computer or not.
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Imperious Leader '17 '16 '15 Organizer '14 Customizer '13 '12 '11 '10last edited by Dec 5, 2010, 10:01 PM
I can’t keep my computers on all day and night. Thats just not practical.
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@Imperious:
I can’t keep my computers on all day and night. Thats just not practical.
No, you don’t have to keep the computer on. Just choose “forever” for how long you log in and never log out. Even if you turn off your computer and turn it back on,you’ll still be logged in.
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Imperious Leader '17 '16 '15 Organizer '14 Customizer '13 '12 '11 '10last edited by Dec 5, 2010, 10:06 PM
No it doesn’t work that way. Stay logged in forever means anytime you visit the site with the same IP address, you never need to type anything to log in.
It does not mean your on the site when you are not.
LMFAO! thats a funny one
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@Imperious:
No it doesn’t work that way. Stay logged in forever means anytime you visit the site with the same IP address, you never need to type anything to log in.
It does not mean your on the site when you are not.
LMFAO! thats a funny one
Yes, that’s what happens. When I shut down my computer at 10:00 PM Pacific time, does my online status disappear even though I never logged out?
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Imperious Leader '17 '16 '15 Organizer '14 Customizer '13 '12 '11 '10last edited by Dec 6, 2010, 12:04 AM
Yes, when you leave the site you are no longer “online”
You are only online when you have a screen up of some part of the site.
Look up total time logged in for further details.
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How to stop the members list from displaying. Add this to index.php at the top of the script:
if ($_GET[‘action’])==‘mlist’) exit;
This destroys one of their larger incentives to register. So if they are slightly intelligent people behind this, they should figure it out and stop registering.
You could also remove all urls from people’s profiles. Or add the “nofollow” tag to them so they don’t get any search engine benefits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow(People can still post spam urls, but that is more work. And in my limited experience the spammers generally stuck with spamming the members list and not doing posts.).
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Why would they post websites in the members list if no one will see the sites and go to them?
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