The fight against Spam
The fight against Spam
When setting up a bulletin board, it's wise to set it up so that managment tasks are kept to a minimum.
When I set this board up, I enabled Captcha so that new users could register themselves and not have to wait for approval. This was done by the board asking them a general question to which an answer was needed. This is often a better approach than simply entering in some shaky text from an obscure image, which is easily defeated by most spam bots. This is also a method which has been used for some time successfully.
Till now.
Seems the bots have grown a bit smarter and have bombarded our board with a few hundred new user accounts to which some have been used to spam us.
Acting upon the advice of our moderators, I have reverted back to a manual user approval method for now, until I can determine how best to upgrade our Captcha. I have also pruned the few hundred users which registered after November 14th and their posts.
Many thanks go to Mix and Neo for their efforts battling this annoyance. You guys are my eyes and ears, and I'm sorry my vacation kept me from you for as long as it did, but you've done great work here and it's very much appreciated!
More info to come as it becomes available to me.
Best,
Mark
When I set this board up, I enabled Captcha so that new users could register themselves and not have to wait for approval. This was done by the board asking them a general question to which an answer was needed. This is often a better approach than simply entering in some shaky text from an obscure image, which is easily defeated by most spam bots. This is also a method which has been used for some time successfully.
Till now.
Seems the bots have grown a bit smarter and have bombarded our board with a few hundred new user accounts to which some have been used to spam us.
Acting upon the advice of our moderators, I have reverted back to a manual user approval method for now, until I can determine how best to upgrade our Captcha. I have also pruned the few hundred users which registered after November 14th and their posts.
Many thanks go to Mix and Neo for their efforts battling this annoyance. You guys are my eyes and ears, and I'm sorry my vacation kept me from you for as long as it did, but you've done great work here and it's very much appreciated!
More info to come as it becomes available to me.
Best,
Mark
My Stable:
93 A2X, 94 A2X, 95 XX Team (Eric Carter tribute), 96 XX Team, 97 XX Team,
Barracuda - Totally Driven!
93 A2X, 94 A2X, 95 XX Team (Eric Carter tribute), 96 XX Team, 97 XX Team,
Barracuda - Totally Driven!
Re: The fight against Spam
***The Magic Modfather, something like the tooth fairy, has made all your cares and fears go away... don't fret, the scary vanilla Ice postings have been removed. Word to 'yo mother!***
Ok Don I'm a little freaked out right now from your response. hehehe
HOW DO I CHANGE MY USERNAME/LOGIN?
Mark? Mix? D?
Ok Don I'm a little freaked out right now from your response. hehehe
HOW DO I CHANGE MY USERNAME/LOGIN?
Mark? Mix? D?
Re: The fight against Spam
Send me a pm and I'll change it for you.
My Stable:
93 A2X, 94 A2X, 95 XX Team (Eric Carter tribute), 96 XX Team, 97 XX Team,
Barracuda - Totally Driven!
93 A2X, 94 A2X, 95 XX Team (Eric Carter tribute), 96 XX Team, 97 XX Team,
Barracuda - Totally Driven!
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Re: The fight against Spam
See pee30wee, Mark has you handled... just as soon as he tears himself away from alphabetizing his pornography collection and stops crocheting Christmas gifts for all of us. Sweet knitted balls!!!
Ho - Ho - Ho-ly chinstraps Cudaman!
Ho - Ho - Ho-ly chinstraps Cudaman!
Re: The fight against Spam
93 A2R blue/white 14" Craigslist Austin, on the cheap
94 A2M silver/white 14" Cenna's Cycles SA, original owner
94 Cuda Comp purple/white 14" won on Ebay
95 XX Team gold/white 14" Craigslist Memphis
94 A2M silver/white 14" Cenna's Cycles SA, original owner
94 Cuda Comp purple/white 14" won on Ebay
95 XX Team gold/white 14" Craigslist Memphis
Re: The fight against Spam
neo_pop_71 wrote:See pee30wee, Mark has you handled... just as soon as he tears himself away from alphabetizing his pornography collection and stops crocheting Christmas gifts for all of us. Sweet knitted balls!!!
Ho - Ho - Ho-ly chinstraps Cudaman!
Oh hey, while you're crotcheting<spelling intentional> - I am a size: slightly above average.
Re: The fight against Spam
neo_pop_71 wrote:See pee30wee, Mark has you handled... just as soon as he tears himself away from alphabetizing his pornography collection and stops crocheting Christmas gifts for all of us. Sweet knitted balls!!!
Ho - Ho - Ho-ly chinstraps Cudaman!
Porn get alphabetized when it's downloaded (who buys anymore!?!?) and I switched from crotcheting gifts to baking them instead. Edible undies are on their way!
My Stable:
93 A2X, 94 A2X, 95 XX Team (Eric Carter tribute), 96 XX Team, 97 XX Team,
Barracuda - Totally Driven!
93 A2X, 94 A2X, 95 XX Team (Eric Carter tribute), 96 XX Team, 97 XX Team,
Barracuda - Totally Driven!
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Re: The fight against Spam
Porn get alphabetized when it's downloaded... Oh, I did not know that, you nasty man!!! I switched from crotcheting gifts to baking them instead. Edible undies are on their way! Goodie gumdrops!!! If it's not too late, make mine a t-back with a crotchless front! We watch the calories out her in Cali!!!
Re: The fight against Spam
I do not care about the calories if the Edible undies show with one of your models wrapped in it and no D-n-D I do not mean one of the guys...so no picture of the beefcake guy with me as well.
Relax and have deep water thoughts.
F.C.C.R Ride hard,Ride Fast.....Go Insane
F.C.C.R Ride hard,Ride Fast.....Go Insane
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vpc66 wrote:I do not care about the calories if the Edible undies show with one of your models wrapped in it and no D-n-D I do not mean one of the guys...so no picture of the beefcake guy with me as well.
Already been alphabetized and filed.