way to stop spammers??

gpk_gti · 13-02-2007, 09:19 PM

hi dubbers,
noticed the last few days we are being bombed by spammers on our site offering their links.Seems its easier to do this than turn up at a vw cruise driving a magna!hehe.
Maybe there should be a time delay between registering and posting? or some other way? just a thought not a criticism.

BLKMJC · 13-02-2007, 09:46 PM

Thats a good suggestion and love the magna throw in

!!

I've implemented visual human checks for clients before. The problem is a lot of these spammers employ very cheap labour and actually defeat human checks with humans! glory

gpk_gti · 13-02-2007, 09:51 PM

hehe,magna is the flavour of the month around these parts!!hehehe
I remember joining a website a while ago where it took a day for my account to activate.maybe that would also work here?? save some time for admin and save us getting emails from our subscriptions?
how many of these phantom members make up our head count?

BLKMJC · 13-02-2007, 10:22 PM

I think its a feature in vBulletin but not sure. Its very annoying tho.... like waiting for hot pizza to cool before u can munch

brackie · 14-02-2007, 05:23 AM

Yeah, guys, I'm aware of the delayed activation option however in this new world of instant gratification many people who sign up want to post immediately so I've avoided using it. When my satellite broadband gets connected (hopefully next week

) I'll be downloading and installing the latest version of vBulletin that has much tighter security and will negate most of our problems. Believe me, these spammers consume a lot of the admin team's time and we want to improve the situation badly. By the way, most of this spam comes from robots, not real people and is generated by slave computers often without the knowledge of the owner.

gpk_gti · 14-02-2007, 07:12 AM

has this got something to do with YAHOO slurp spiders on our forum??
WOW you are getting broadband!!! PARTY!!!!!

**Golf Loon** · 14-02-2007, 07:14 AM

Yeah roll on the upgrade, I have been deleting heaps of spam recently.

Brackie with Broadband!! Woweee!@

brackie · 14-02-2007, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by gpk_gti

has this got something to do with YAHOO slurp spiders on our forum??

No mate. The "slurp" spider is a legit robot. It enters the site and follows the links to all pages and posts, then it indexes them. Theoretically, if somebody in Eastern Mesopotamia types, "BBS wheels" into Yahoo search it will come up with all of our posts that include BBS wheels (eventually

) but we'll be well down the list.

gpk_gti · 14-02-2007, 07:43 AM

ahh ok,,, just didnt know what the spider was.I noticed a few of them yesterday on forum.The guys that leave the spam do they leave valid email addresses? are they @yahoo by any chance?? some forums dont allow @yahoo addys and some you have to pre register with a @hotmail addy.

**DubSteve** · 14-02-2007, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by gpk_gti

ahh ok,,, just didnt know what the spider was.I noticed a few of them yesterday on forum.The guys that leave the spam do they leave valid email addresses? are they @yahoo by any chance?? some forums dont allow @yahoo addys and some you have to pre register with a @hotmail addy.

Some don't even let you register without a hotmail addy.

But the spammers are a bunch of w@#%ers. Get a life.

Brackies getting broadband PARTY tonight at his house