New member's locations

[dgdave]

I was looking at the newest members who have joined and there were quite a few that have their location as "PORN" what's up with that?

[Fritz]

I was looking at the newest members who have joined and there were quite a few that have their location as "PORN" what's up with that?

Spammer accounts I haven't gotten to yet to delete. They are inactive so they can't post, I jsut haven't been able to get to them since I got back from worlds. No one kept track for an entire week while I was gone, average of 35 new accounts per day * 9 days = 315 new accounts. I'll get to them when I get free time. I try to glance thru and make sure the real ones get approved but they get missed fact of life.

Wish there was an easier way to mass delete, but unfortunately I have to go into the admin panel and put in the name of each account 1 by 1. Because some of them are obviously spammer accounts.

[kvanorsdel]

Why not move DGR off of php and on to a less spammed format like SMF?

[Fritz]

Why not move DGR off of php and on to a less spammed format like SMF?

Not my call. I'd love to see it on a system like that or dragonfly, their spam account protection is killer.

[kvanorsdel]

Why not move DGR off of php and on to a less spammed format like SMF?

Not my call. I'd love to see it on a system like that or dragonfly, their spam account protection is killer.

Yeah we use smf for our club site and since upgrading it to the most recent version we have had no fake accounts get through. I've heard less spammers right programs for the lesser used forum software so maybe it would only be a matter of time, but at least it would work for now

[SkaBob]

I don't recall, does DGR use one of those captcha images to fool their programs that auto-register? You should be able to add one to phpbb fairly easily...

[Fritz]

I don't recall, does DGR use one of those captcha images to fool their programs that auto-register? You should be able to add one to phpbb fairly easily...

There is a outdated image version. Nothing like the scrabbled letters that are hard to read for a true registering user.
It's just black text behind tv static.

[MDR_3000]

I was looking at the newest members who have joined and there were quite a few that have their location as "PORN" what's up with that?

Spammer accounts I haven't gotten to yet to delete. They are inactive so they can't post, I jsut haven't been able to get to them since I got back from worlds. No one kept track for an entire week while I was gone, average of 35 new accounts per day * 9 days = 315 new accounts. I'll get to them when I get free time. I try to glance thru and make sure the real ones get approved but they get missed fact of life.

Wish there was an easier way to mass delete, but unfortunately I have to go into the admin panel and put in the name of each account 1 by 1. Because some of them are obviously spammer accounts.

There is, I put a mass delete mod on my forum. It's real simple to install and real easy to delete 50 people at a time. I'll see if I can find the link for the mod.


found it...

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/1692

[Fritz]

I was looking at the newest members who have joined and there were quite a few that have their location as "PORN" what's up with that?

Spammer accounts I haven't gotten to yet to delete. They are inactive so they can't post, I jsut haven't been able to get to them since I got back from worlds. No one kept track for an entire week while I was gone, average of 35 new accounts per day * 9 days = 315 new accounts. I'll get to them when I get free time. I try to glance thru and make sure the real ones get approved but they get missed fact of life.

Wish there was an easier way to mass delete, but unfortunately I have to go into the admin panel and put in the name of each account 1 by 1. Because some of them are obviously spammer accounts.

There is, I put a mass delete mod on my forum. It's real simple to install and real easy to delete 50 people at a time. I'll see if I can find the link for the mod.


found it...

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/1692

damn that is nice, I need to get Blake to install that.