1 Topic by Lanta (edited by Lanta 2010-05-27 13:12:35)

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Topic: [HELP] Spam problem

Well... i'm one of the support staff and I'm not the right one to open a topic in this section but... well, I think that's a big problem.
In the last days we've seen a lot of spam users registered to the forum that bump up old and new topics with some random phrases like "I just found it on Google, thanks!".
Here a list of the users, always called Rogers*
http://www.teeworlds.com/forum/userlist … r+criteria
I think we should do something to prevent this... I know, there are moderators and there is the report function but it's not an easy and fast way to fight against spammers. I think someone, maybe Teeworlds mod, could insert a captcha-protection or something like this to this punBB.
Waiting for an answer, I invite you all to report messages from these users to mods with the report function (bottom right of every post). Regards,

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2 Reply by Azon

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Re: [HELP] Spam problem

This is indeed a very persistent problem which is manageable but certainly annoying. You are right to say that reporting is for now the only way to combat these evil acts, but it would certainly be worthwhile to discuss other solutions as well.

A Capthcha-protection for registering could be a possible solution, although I'm not too sure if present day forum bots will be halted by it. We should certainly give this (or other counter-measures) a chance though. Unfortunately I won't be able to set this up as I don't have access to the forum settings but maybe one of the developers can. Until then I'll have to deal with with these troubles manually.

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Re: [HELP] Spam problem

Hey, you should delete these "Rogers" completely (including their posts, threads and signatures with URLs), because everyone can read their advertisement.

A captcha would not solve the problem, as the "Rogers" are controlled by a human, not a bot.

If I were you, I would ban the IP-Range used by the spammer and report abuse at his ISP.

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Schokomuesli wrote:

Hey, you should delete these "Rogers" completely (including their posts, threads and signatures with URLs), because everyone can read their advertisement.

You should only delete they posts, threads and signatures, if they have only spammed on the forums, otherwise if there was a conversion between them or if they added anything to the forums, their complete absence would seem strange. A conversation between people with one invisible person would be very confusing to look at after all memory of him/her was erased.

Give others the respect you wish to be respected with. In the mean time, enjoy the website!

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Don't the Moderators get's the Users IP?
Couse it's even another Roger in! (Registered 2010-04-11) Which is still active.

Oh, Don't they ban the ip instead of the Normal account?

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6 Reply by Azon

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Re: [HELP] Spam problem

It's standard practice to remove signatures and post of spammers, if they have made one or more post. If users haven't made any posts we don't always remove their signature as this means extra work while it shows no different to a forum visitor. They still get a permanent IP-ban though. The good news is that I experimented a bit with IP range bans and if it worked correctly we should no longer see these Rogers among us.

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Yes, I've reported this "rogers" person over 3 times.
He keeps on creating accounts, though, and already today i have seen 3 rogers accounts (rogers with a number after it)
I'm getting tired of this, and I think any rogers should be banned.

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Re: [HELP] Spam problem

New spammers called Khan*
http://www.teeworlds.com/forum/userlist … r+criteria

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9 Reply by Tee Killa

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Re: [HELP] Spam problem

The first Khan (without numbers) is defenetly no spamer! I know him from the german forum. Just to mention wink

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Re: [HELP] Spam problem

fazer! wrote:

Yes, I've reported this "rogers" person over 3 times.
He keeps on creating accounts, though, and already today i have seen 3 rogers accounts (rogers with a number after it)
I'm getting tired of this, and I think any rogers should be banned.

This would be strange as the records show no new Roger accounts. Could you please point out where you have seen these accounts today? Thanks.

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All posts Within My and bee's are downvoted?!

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Everyone's is... I just reported it.

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The downvote bots big_smile

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14 Reply by Snazzy

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haha any jerk is downvoting every post, but hey why do we care? i guess roger will get sick of this if noone mentions it . azon just delete this jerk everytime again and dont pay attention to him, he will loose incentive soon,

bet hes not older than 15 and is doing that with a friend because he thinks hes funny.

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15 Reply by HipHopBlond

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This guy VERY BADLY needs 2 get a job...

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Hip-Hop_BLOND wrote:

I really need too stop wasting my time on useless comments.


Mh, my friend got banned, and he can't even Look at the forum anymore, How do then the Guys register?

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17 Reply by Lanta

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Re: [HELP] Spam problem

I wanna resume this old topic. Someone has changed but this problem is "still alive" (like Glados in Portal). Lot of things changed, now the server admin is m!nus as far as I know and we've seen some update of the forum CMS, punBB. Useless updates for this problems, spammers are again here and they are more than in the past (I reported to moderators about 10 posts in 2 days).
Are we going to do something? Spammers are more active than the community!

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You maybe should disable the signature for people with less than 5/10 posts. The only way those bots are advertising is with their sign (who gets quickly referenced by google bots).

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Dune wrote:

You maybe should disable the signature for people with less than 5/10 posts. The only way those bots are advertising is with their sign (who gets quickly referenced by google bots).

Now, they evolved. Now they post links also in the message... sad

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Use ReCaptcha in registration. I am using it a long time and I am maximally happy with it smile It is free and simply implementable system for a huge amount of programming languages, including PHP.

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khubajsn wrote:

Use ReCaptcha in registration. I am using it a long time and I am maximally happy with it smile It is free and simply implementable system for a huge amount of programming languages, including PHP.

Problem is, as we already said, that those bots look like real humans, and humans bypass captchas.

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Yes, but captchas slow them down. How about adding captchas to the first 10 posts for a new user?

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23 Reply by Lanta (edited by Lanta 2010-10-11 11:42:20)

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grummi wrote:

Yes, but captchas slow them down. How about adding captchas to the first 10 posts for a new user?

More useful: what about disable links inside post and signature if posts < 10? XD

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Looks like you solved the problem, I had to tell hello to the server big_smile

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Could it be that your spam protection cuts off longer initial posts? I was able to fix mine by editing it after posting, not sure what happened, don't want to create multiple spam-topics to try if I can reproduce this:
1) new thread, enter long text
2) preview: everything ok
3) send
4) answer bot-test
Result: New thread / initial post is cut off after a few lines