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Raekuul
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 Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:04 am Post subject: Bot Swarm |
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Has anyone else noticed the sudden flood of pornospam in the forums?
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TwinHamster
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:36 am Post subject: |
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Uh, yeah.
What I'd like to know is why THIS is being accepted as not-spam. |
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Moogle1
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:04 am Post subject: |
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Over on Surlaw Forums, we have had zero (0) bots since we set up a verification question: "Spell walrus backwards."
If you somehow can't do that, we don't want you posting anyway, and it's been 100% effective (!) in preventing spambots.
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Fenrir-Lunaris
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| The verification question is excellent, by the way. I've just had to delete 5 bot threads just within the last hour or so. What's disturbing is that I have to make the rounds of checking CP for new posts every 8 hours, and each time I find like 4 new posts. That's on average ~12 new bot posts per day. Significantly higher than it used to be. |
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Bob the Hamster
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| Fenrir-Lunaris wrote: | | The verification question is excellent, by the way. I've just had to delete 5 bot threads just within the last hour or so. What's disturbing is that I have to make the rounds of checking CP for new posts every 8 hours, and each time I find like 4 new posts. That's on average ~12 new bot posts per day. Significantly higher than it used to be. |
~12 a day is pretty close to the rate they hit the wiki. They all get blocked because you aren't allowed to post anything which contains http:/ unless you are on the "Not Evil" list. |
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