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Aryabhatta
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #25 on: Oct 9th, 2007, 12:03pm » |
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In the spirit of this site, perhaps we can just ask a simple puzzle before registration is allowed.
(Edit: I see that CAPTCHA covers asking puzzles etc. Sorry, I thought it was only about images)
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #26 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 10:18am » |
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William claims that guest access has been denied.
Why then are there now 22 guests online?
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #27 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 10:50am » |
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on Oct 10th, 2007, 10:18am, ThudanBlunder wrote:William claims that guest access has been denied.
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One) they're also guests when they only look at the "only registered members can view this forum" page
Two) I don't think guest access is denied any more.
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #28 on: Oct 15th, 2007, 1:26am » |
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on Oct 10th, 2007, 10:50am, towr wrote:
Two) I don't think guest access is denied any more.
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How do you access a guest pass? What does it comprise of? Is it only when looking at the forums and you are not logged in, does it apply you as a guest?
I just saw, and there are still about 400 nowXXX@gmail.com accounts. Scary.
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towr
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #29 on: Oct 15th, 2007, 2:24am » |
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on Oct 15th, 2007, 1:26am, DC1E2L wrote:| Is it only when looking at the forums and you are not logged in |
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yes.
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #30 on: Oct 15th, 2007, 2:24pm » |
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Uh oh.. look what the bot is doing at other forums:
http://www.forkinhand.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=4
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #31 on: Oct 15th, 2007, 2:26pm » |
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So they are spam bots, yet they are not posting here...
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #32 on: Oct 15th, 2007, 2:32pm » |
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on Oct 15th, 2007, 2:26pm, DC1E2L wrote:| So they are spam bots, yet they are not posting here... |
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The person who is running it probably has intention of hacking this. You still seem to be undergoing identity crisis, I see.
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mikedagr8
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #33 on: Oct 15th, 2007, 2:38pm » |
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on Oct 15th, 2007, 2:32pm, Sameer wrote:
The person who is running it probably has intention of hacking this. You still seem to be undergoing identity crisis, I see. |
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Ahah, gotchas... You are incorrect here.
Refer to here (reply #122) 
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towr
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #34 on: Oct 16th, 2007, 12:14am » |
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on Oct 15th, 2007, 2:26pm, DC1E2L wrote:| So they are spam bots, yet they are not posting here... |
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Probably this board is incompatible with the way they are coded.
on Oct 15th, 2007, 2:32pm, Sameer wrote:| The person who is running it probably has intention of hacking this. |
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I don't think the hacking of that board and the spam are related; other than in the sense that that board is dead and has no one looking after it to fix either problem.
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #35 on: Oct 17th, 2007, 11:21am » |
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Hey cool. The newest member (at least last time I checked) was not a "nowXXX@gmail.com" account. 
I say that we IP-ban the computer that's coughing up all the "nowXXX@gmail.com" accounts.
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mikedagr8
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #36 on: Oct 29th, 2007, 10:50pm » |
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on Oct 17th, 2007, 11:21am, Ghost Sniper wrote:| I say that we IP-ban the computer that's coughing up all the "nowXXX@gmail.com" accounts. |
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Just an observation, but the bots seem to be back...  I think IP ban would be appropriate here, if it is possible. 
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towr
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #37 on: Oct 30th, 2007, 2:15am » |
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I doubt it's coming from one computer. And even if it were, there's a good chance the owner of the computer it's coming from doesn't know his computer is used for this.
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #38 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 7:04am » |
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Image verification would stop them dead in their tracks.
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mikedagr8
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #39 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 1:43pm » |
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on Jan 25th, 2008, 7:04am, temporary wrote:| Image verification would stop them dead in their tracks. |
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If you are talking about CAPTCHA, then read the previous page.
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #40 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 8:34pm » |
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Then why have we not done that yet?
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #41 on: Jan 25th, 2008, 8:41pm » |
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Because "We" actually means "Wu", and William has his own limitations on time and resources.
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Sorry for being so lazy 
I wrote a script and 6,636 users which I think are probably fake were killed today. Attached is the deathlist.
Lately the bots have been getting really bad, so I will look into implementing some kind of CAPTCHA.
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #43 on: Nov 6th, 2008, 12:23am » |
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You could also consider using the lists and APIs from http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ or http://www.stopforumspam.com/ to identify likely bots and comment spammers.
We don't seem to get a lot of spam though, so it's not too bad in that sense. Maybe to weed out more fake registrations, you could send an activation-email to accounts with 0 posts and high-entropy names, then delete them after a week.
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #44 on: Nov 6th, 2008, 4:58pm » |
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don't we have verification e-mails?
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So, if I help you, I'll get kicked for ksing, but if I don't, then I'll get kick for not helping...
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towr
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Re: 10,000th Member
« Reply #45 on: Nov 7th, 2008, 12:29am » |
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on Nov 6th, 2008, 4:58pm, iono wrote:| don't we have verification e-mails? |
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I can't remember. But in any case, spam bots have absolutely no problem reading and acting on verification emails. They expect them on registration.
If, however, you were to repeat it a month later, spam accounts are unlikely to respond (nor have they any motivation to, since they rarely use an account to spam for prolonged periods; they'd sooner register over and over). So you could use it to weed them out.
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