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Confuse The Ad Bots
Topic Started: Dec 9 2006, 10:48 AM (261 Views)
wissaboo
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Here is a little trick I ran accross for beating the spam bots that invade message boards. They are like ants. Once one finds it's way in you will be invaded <_<

First create a new member category.

Then amend your Member group so that they cannot start a new topic, use the pm system, or email from the board. Set it so that members will be promoted out of this group into the new group after a small number of posts. I would say less than 5. Now bots will not be able to start a topic selling their product. They will also not be able to send your members spam.


If you have a smaller forum you can move everyone into the new category manually. Otherwise, they will move up as soon as they make their next post.
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wissaboo
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ok while they aren't posting anymore I am still getting up to 20 spam bots a day registering.

Since many of their emails are similar I have wildcard banned some email addresses. Lets see if that helps



*@mail.ru
*@cashette.com
*@gawab.com


:boxer: :boxer: :boxer:
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wissaboo
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I have now widened my banning

*.ru

and

*.info


I havn't had a bot register in 24 hours. :fingerscrossed:


won't get them all but hopefully the vast majority
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Pengelou
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*head explodes*
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Wishfire
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Why not simply limit new members to a specific forum for their first 5 posts? If it's a spambot, it'll most likely leave only one post, so it will be easy to indentify and eliminate it.
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wissaboo
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keeping new members from starting a new thread for their first 2 posts completely stopped the bots from posting. But still it was a pain in the ass having them join. Literally one day I had to delete 20 accounts.

it has now been two days since I had one join :fingerscrossed:
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Alisium
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Does requiring admin validation make a difference?

Fuckin Russians. :boxer:
<a href='http://eapr-1/@' target='_blank'></a>
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almighty
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I think you'll still get them , you'll just have to delete them all the time

I have no signature to display :P
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wissaboo
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I think it discourages membership as well.


I had it for a while but I am back to email validation. With a really wide email ban list.

I just have to accept the member numbers in the thousands. Since even ones that don't finish the registration still get assigned a number.
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