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Mike.nl

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Re: what the heck
« Reply #40 on: July 05, 2011, 09:30 pm »
I hope I fixed the situation.

I installed a forum mod that checks all new registrations against the Stop Forum Spam database. This should prevent (most) new bots from registering.

Next, I decided to test all current members against the database. After some sanity checks to make sure there were no false positives, out of the 3958 members on this forum, 1487 (38%) came up as spammers based on their IP and/or e-mail address. 1416 of them have registered since June 2011.

I have deleted all 1487.

In the process I created a nice diagram that shows the member registrations per month on the forum:



So, I hope this solves it once and for all. And I hope future spam posts become an isolated incident.
« Last Edit: July 06, 2011, 01:20 am by Mike.nl »
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #41 on: July 05, 2011, 09:32 pm »
Mike, not to ask too much, but, can we have a sub-forum back for forum wars like we used to? So as to not clutter the already cluttered backroom.

Edit: Forgot to say: Chris(Dokter von Wer) told me he was going to ask you for one.
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #42 on: July 05, 2011, 11:25 pm »
well mike, that's good news. well, let's hope we can see if these spammer tailor off for now.

It appears our forum was found by an auto spam registry. or at least that'd be my guess, due to the massive number of registry in one month.

Well if any more pop up we'll keep reporting them to you.
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #43 on: July 06, 2011, 01:05 am »
I lol'ed at the number of registrations.

I've only seen like, 7-8 bots on here.  I guess the other ~1000 were stopped before they started. 
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #44 on: July 06, 2011, 01:13 am »
Quote from: M Doyle on July 05, 2011, 11:25 pm
Well if any more pop up we'll keep reporting them to you.
NO!

Don't report them to Mike, report them to a mod if they seem to have not noticed. We can then ban them. Mike is a very busy person and doesn't need to be bothered with the occasional bot leaking through! IF we feel it is needed, then we may decide to call Mike in for another security update. Don't contact him personally!
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #45 on: July 06, 2011, 01:16 am »
Quote from: s-t-n on July 06, 2011, 01:13 am
NO!

Don't report them to Mike, report them to a mod if they seem to have not noticed. We can then ban them. Mike is a very busy person and doesn't need to be bothered with the occasional bot leaking through! IF we feel it is needed, then we may decide to call Mike in for another security update. Don't contact him personally!
Too late.
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #46 on: July 06, 2011, 02:51 am »
Quote from: Kassius (Darthme) on July 06, 2011, 01:05 am
I lol'ed at the number of registrations.

I've only seen like, 7-8 bots on here.  I guess the other ~1000 were stopped before they started. 

It was ridiculous how many bots were there, on the board directory where it shows users that have logged in today it was more full than it was back in the day, because of all the bots that had newly registered.
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #47 on: July 06, 2011, 12:45 pm »
Quote from: s-t-n on July 06, 2011, 01:13 am
NO!

Don't report them to Mike, report them to a mod if they seem to have not noticed. We can then ban them. Mike is a very busy person and doesn't need to be bothered with the occasional bot leaking through! IF we feel it is needed, then we may decide to call Mike in for another security update. Don't contact him personally!

I mean i'm gonna hit the "Report to moderator" button in the bottem right corner of the post.
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #48 on: July 07, 2011, 10:00 am »
bots were scaring me for a while but thank you mike
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #49 on: July 14, 2011, 12:19 am »
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #50 on: July 14, 2011, 01:52 pm »
Quote from: Sergeant Lyeman on July 14, 2011, 12:19 am
We're still getting a fair few.
Of course, this is not a 100% foolproof. But 10 per month is better than 1000 per month.
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #51 on: July 14, 2011, 05:29 pm »
Quote from: Mike.nl on July 14, 2011, 01:52 pm
Of course, this is not a 100% foolproof. But 10 per month is better than 1000 per month.
I endorse this statement. :up
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Re: what the heck
« Reply #52 on: July 15, 2011, 05:39 am »
Just trying to keep an eye out... I hope that doesn't escalate to that again.
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