Yet another spambot...

Post by **nml375** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:50 pm

Getting abit annoying having posts bumped by that spambot "micky0604" over and over.. Time for some moderator intervention?

speechles · Post by **speechles** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:34 am

Or perhaps it's time you were a moderator? heh..heh..heh..
What is especially annoying is the microscopic text used to spam with.. lmao.. and the tony the tiger remark, great!

Post by **user** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:55 am

I can't ban/remove the account, but I've deleted all its posts. (one by one

...it took some clicking

)

EDIT: It seems it is still posting... :/

speechles · Post by **speechles** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:21 am

Valiant effort user, bravo. Apparently it finds amusement with your efforts because along with the tony the tiger-esque "great" remark is now added some insightful commentary about the book "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein... Quite an oddball flooder we have here...

Post by **nml375** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:51 am

Well done, user. Keep up the good work

Too bad he managed to hit so many threads I've got on watch list..

Post by **slennox** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:23 pm

The account been deleted. phpbb's flood protection is somewhat deficient.

Post by **slennox** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:02 pm

speechles wrote:Or perhaps it's time you were a moderator? heh..heh..heh..

We're overdue for a new one, and I suppose he'll do

Post by **nml375** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:11 pm

slennox wrote:
speechles wrote:Or perhaps it's time you were a moderator? heh..heh..heh..
We're overdue for a new one, and I suppose he'll do

I guess that's what ya get for opening one's mouth...

Thanks for the vote of confidence *starts scheming for world domination*

Domin · Post by **Domin** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:41 am

Hehe, or perhaps and update to phpbb couldt fix the problem

Post by **slennox** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:35 pm

Domin wrote:Hehe, or perhaps and update to phpbb couldt fix the problem

Looked at the docs for 3.0 and didn't see any indication of changes to the flood protection, though I may have missed something since it wouldn't let me display the entire guide on one page to search.

Moonster · Post by **Moonster** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:07 am

Hey there slennox long time no see

Post by **user** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:09 am

More spam:

ijkl884
davidmncc

It looks like nml375 is busy dealing with davidmncc - I've deleted all posts by ijkl884 (if you edit their posts, make sure you remove/rewrite all urls so they don't get the google juice they're here for)

Post by **slennox** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 8:09 pm

Looks like the whac-a-mole game will continue until additional preventative measures are taken. I'm up to page 4 of 37 in the list of available mods

Domin · Post by **Domin** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:02 am

Well Captcha is much more devloped in v3, there is a list of changes here:

http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/

Perhaps this mod can fix it if you dont wish to upgrade:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... a&start=15

Post by **nml375** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:19 am

One possible approach, I guess, would be to use something like the "Approval MOD", and restrict postings for those who hasn't had 10 approved posts yet.

The downside would mainly be a lot more work for us moderators, and the possible discomfort of censorship of new members.