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I dunno if you guys care about this so much... and I don't know that this issue really has much impact on the board experience in general...

but I notice you guys are getting hammered by Bot registrants. You may want to install some variety of "confirm that you are a human" safeguard on your registration protocol to prevent folks like

"DeD86259 in Mongolia"

and

"Andkwcvmti in EV"

from registering...

...though I suspect you have better things to do than worry about such tweaks to the land o songfight.





--Em

phpBB comes with a captcha function these days, which is easy to turn on. also i wrote a little patch which makes it so that bots which register but don't verify don't show up on user lists so they don't have any effect. I need to make that stuff available again I guess but in the meantime it's at http://beesbuzz.biz/code/phpbb/memberli ... spam.patch

Leaf wrote:Please oh please get rid of "rat40". Merci.

I take back my previous assertion that the bots have no impact on the board experience... Once the bots start posting, it can be a real pain in the arse...for you admins especially.

I know the PHP boards can be set up to include a "identify this graphic representation of a word..." as part of the sign-up protocol. Perhaps something to consider?

(Sorry to flog ye olde dead horse...)

--Em

The bot quoted me. I think that is the funniest thing in the world.

Hey Spud & JB since there is an awful lot of these bots on the memberlist, want someone to compile a list so you can do some kind of mass execution?

Niveous wrote:The bot quoted me. I think that is the funniest thing in the world.

Hey Spud & JB since there is an awful lot of these bots on the memberlist, want someone to compile a list so you can do some kind of mass execution?

Quoted by Robots!

I'd also be happy to compile such a list for such a purpose!

(We do our part)

--M

anti-m wrote:Quoted by Robots!

Hey Anti-M, we should collaborate as Quoted by Robots (QxR).

Niveous wrote:

anti-m wrote:Quoted by Robots!

Hey Anti-M, we should collaborate as Quoted by Robots (QxR).

I'm always up for collaboration! Although I never actually managed to see Captured! By Robots...

anti-m wrote:I never actually managed to see Captured! By Robots...

I have. It was one of the first shows I saw when I moved to the Bay Area. It was amazing.

Ken

ya'll go nuts, that would be usefull thanks.

jb

I have just done a mass execution, but if you want to put together a list of remaining suspects, go ahead.

SPUD

From the first 250 members I checked:

Tony Town
Bobrikkh
heylo621
261261
Gunyard
Creampie147
Johanni754
metal977
Mike860
fotoman008
golden-showers-258
alex
708A
Palmer747
Pheromone
aphrodisiac.179
italiancharms784
Spamma210
Johan612
frankkk
Erik650
kiyan723
ahyutta
Beata340
asdas501
bitare228
dimok777
Mialu651
Irena500
Violar163
nderevyanko
Weber224
Weber256
LorieKennedy83
aquatic-store.com
minelab
Color Laser Engraver
Jenya_S1980
kraska
Vpenidi251
krabtest297
tusovka
Pechnik
itacha346
During635
Silverstorm
286Johanny
idinaahuy
repco809
Korobin227
Serguei-Roudnev
pdasoft
KaZhaR
vectigal1994
Monya489
Rikitiki
928928928
Intexusa
archiven
934van
Roy Forrest
YerodinCabbell
FreeAds
velesa
diada
vicodin
Yanka515
Robert Stannnyhope
SpikeLemp
showclubinfo.info
zzDustin
plane149
fam-oppenheimer.de
204-synaix.de
bwhc.info
aponomarenko
boatsmith
204-synaix

I think a couple of those might be ligit.

I think I remember a creampie and a rikitiki...

some are obvious though like .info..uh duh...

Seriously, though, there's ways of preventing spammers from even finding the forums to begin with, and making it harder for them to actually register and post if they do.

Niveous wrote:From the first 250 members I checked:

Creampie147

that's me

Niveous wrote:From the first 250 members I checked:

golden-showers-258

and i got a pm from this one saying it was really hoblit.

As of today, I have deleted most of the list.

From January 4th on, every new member has been a spambot except the following:

jessecooper
akash
Francois
Cultofzoee
Pierre
Phlemingo
Carpetburn

Today we got one from a bestiality site. That's just wrong.

blue wrote:

Niveous wrote:From the first 250 members I checked:

golden-showers-258

and i got a pm from this one saying it was really hoblit.

That was supposed to be between you and me. (and a drain)

Hoblit wrote:(and a drain)

Lightweight.

not sure if this is techie curiousity or self presevation instinct..............


How does one identify botness ?

<A href="http://www.songfight.org/"> maintain solidtude longer </A> ask me how

seriously Im asking

Heuristics.

(Pattern Recognition)