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Re: Forum has problems with spam bots

2014-07-12T17:51:21+02:00

Ze_PilOt wrote:
Can't do much about it.

I have:
- Cloudflare anti spam protection
- Registration needing a valid email (and so passing google anti spam measures).
- anti-bot Q&A on registering.
- Bot filtering from several blacklists like stopforumspam.
- New User protection (can't post link, some keyword denied)

And still, some are going through.

Do you have a honeypot? I'm still having decent success with that in my dev job.

Statistics: Posted by Aurion — 12 Jul 2014, 17:51

Re: Forum has problems with spam bots

2014-07-12T16:05:31+02:00

Should be fixed.
The problem is that if I don't tighten the bot detection, we are spammed. False positive may happens more often as these protections are added.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 12 Jul 2014, 16:05

Re: Forum has problems with spam bots

2014-07-12T05:56:32+02:00

Now i can't post from my mobile phone

Statistics: Posted by ZLO_RD — 12 Jul 2014, 05:56

Re: Forum has problems with spam bots

2014-07-10T04:53:58+02:00

IceDreamer wrote:
Do we have some simple question in place such as "What is the name of the Cybran T1 Assault Bot? (Mantis)"? Things any player would know but would make it impossible for a bot to gain entry?

Ze_PilOt wrote:
- anti-bot Q&A on registering.

Yes we do, it has questions exactly like that. And they are still getting through.

Statistics: Posted by Nombringer — 10 Jul 2014, 04:53

Re: Forum has problems with spam bots

2014-07-10T02:40:21+02:00

Do we have some simple question in place such as "What is the name of the Cybran T1 Assault Bot? (Mantis)"? Things any player would know but would make it impossible for a bot to gain entry?

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 10 Jul 2014, 02:40

Re: Forum has problems with spam bots

2014-07-10T00:41:10+02:00

They were writing poetry the other day so It's not entirely impossible

Statistics: Posted by Nombringer — 10 Jul 2014, 00:41

Re: Forum has problems with spam bots

2014-07-10T00:07:38+02:00

Perhaps the spam bots can be reasoned with.

Statistics: Posted by stalewee — 10 Jul 2014, 00:07

Re: Forum has problems with spam bots

2014-07-09T21:21:25+02:00

It's not a huge problem. It's a small increased workload to remove all the spamposts but it's not a problem for now.

Statistics: Posted by Gorton — 09 Jul 2014, 21:21

Re: Forum has problems with spam bots

2014-07-09T18:14:00+02:00

Can't do much about it.

I have:
- Cloudflare anti spam protection
- Registration needing a valid email (and so passing google anti spam measures).
- anti-bot Q&A on registering.
- Bot filtering from several blacklists like stopforumspam.
- New User protection (can't post link, some keyword denied)

And still, some are going through.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 09 Jul 2014, 18:14

Forum has problems with spam bots

2014-07-09T15:01:13+02:00

It seams to me that every 4-10 minutes there is an automatic registration of a spam bot user. Thats for several days now. Are you aware?

Statistics: Posted by RoLa — 09 Jul 2014, 15:01