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TheMohawkNinja wrote:
xpadmin wrote:
It was worse when the forum started. Then it was about 4 times a day. Now its once a week.

I have about 400 ip's banned now (almost all from china).

The spammers use "real" people to circumvent the securities, so there is not a good solution to solve the problem.

The flooding itself must be an automated process. I will look into tricks to prevent this.

Sorry for the inconvenience.


I know that the Kerbal Space Program Forum uses something called "Spam-O-Matic", which according to the forum site at this moment claims:

495511 Spammers Denied Registration

1212 Spammers Permanently Banned

1210 Spammers submitted to StopForumSpam

8146 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated


Wrong forum, X moon uses the free PHPBB and your suggested addon only works with vBulletin :-(
How ever there is a addon for phpBB called Anti Spam ACP : https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=1677275, dont know how it makes it safe though.

I still recommend using Q&A when registering, helped me stop spam wars at at least to of the environments ive set up for organizations.


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We got another one.
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Time to grab ye ol' banhammer!


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Sat May 03, 2014 1:09 am
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Yep, thanks. I had changed the php, but it does not seem to prevent flooding.

Will have to look into it again.


Sat May 03, 2014 1:16 pm
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another one, but this one seems to be advertising on the wrong sub-forum and seems spammish

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check him out and ban if needed


Thu May 08, 2014 5:47 pm
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Well... we have another one...

I'd say "at least it's not a D-DOS"... but I think ta the spam might be more annoying.


Sat May 17, 2014 8:36 pm
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TheMohawkNinja wrote:
Well... we have another one...

I'd say "at least it's not a D-DOS"... but I think ta the spam might be more annoying.


make that 2, brbrinbt and DSiliLilmpap; ban pls


Mon May 26, 2014 6:00 am
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Banned them. Still wonder why this kind of spam is worth their efforts.


Mon May 26, 2014 2:22 pm
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xpadmin wrote:
Banned them. Still wonder why this kind of spam is worth their efforts.


Whoever hires them obviously has no marketing skills. Frankly, when it comes to any kind of spam I don't buy the product on principle since I don't wish to support that kind of marketing. That and I don't trust buying half the crap they're talking about, even if I understand what it is they're talking about.

An ad on a banner is fine, but filling a board with immense amounts of ads is just bad business.


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Malachai wrote:
xpadmin wrote:
Banned them. Still wonder why this kind of spam is worth their efforts.

filling a board with immense amounts of ads is just bad business.


I've only ever taken one marketing class, and it was in high school. One of the things that I was taught was that after so many airings of a commercial, it quickly looses it's effectiveness as more and more people get bored of seeing it.

Spam is the textbook definition of how not to do marketing... and I mean high school textbook definition...


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