Account authentication required by Admins

by **Blake_T** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:51 am

Due to smarter spam-bots, all new accounts must be approved by a site admin. This should hopefully happen within 24 hours (ideally sooner) and be relatively pain free.

Feel free to email admins if your account access has not been granted.

by **Solty** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:54 am

i've done that with my forum, where people can register all they want...they cant post till their acct is active

Cheers to Blake and company!

by **swel304** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:56 am

as an admin, how exactly do you determin if its a bot registering or not? we are having the same spam problems on our local board too.

by **Solty** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:00 am

you can tell most spam bots by their name...as well as having ICQ #s...cuz not many people use ICQ anymore....as well as the messed up websites they have in their info. Just 2 seconds of inspection does the job...

by **Blake_T** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:48 am

yep. an email of nwkenr3243@323nk234l32.ru is usually a good tip as well

or a webpage that has xanax or cialis in the name also is another big one

by **swel304** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:12 pm

We reset our forum. every day that passes more spammers arrive. After about three weeks I had to change it to where I approve every new account which kind of helps, but they still register every day and even though they cant post thier names show up in the member list until I delete them. I know there are ways to ban but the names always have random stings of numbers so that wont work. how can I see/ban the ip address? will it even help? any other techniques to slow down the flood?

by **domromer** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:13 pm

what do moderators do? I'm curious.

by **Texas Made** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:17 pm

URLs' tell all....
I work doing online advertisng at a major newspaper, we have alot of problems like that with forums and message boards......The web is a crazy place.

by **MDR_3000** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:17 pm

on my board I've prevented anyone with an *.info or *.ru and a couple other email addresses I've seen spammers use. It helps a bit, but I still get some that get though, not too bad but still annoying.

by **swel304** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:18 pm

anything would help, we are getting like 6-10 a day and it seems to just keep getting worse.

by **swel304** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:45 pm

i can enter *.info under ban email addresses but it does not show up afterwards. the unban email address box still says no email addresses banned. am I doing something wrong?

by **MDR_3000** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:53 pm

*@*.info

is how it should read.

by **Thatdirtykid** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:32 pm

MDR_3000 wrote:on my board I've prevented anyone with an *.info or *.ru and a couple other email addresses I've seen spammers use. It helps a bit, but I still get some that get though, not too bad but still annoying.

our list of unallowed adresses has gotten quite long.

by **swel304** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:13 pm

i think i figured it out. it will let me add something like *@*.info guess ill have to wait a few days to see if it works but its been a few hours and none with .info or .ru have gotten through. any suggestions on others I should ban?

by **Bruce** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:13 am

I run the BDGA forum, and we had the same problems.

Personally I use User authentication, as 80% use fake email addresses, I didn't want to be bombarded with authentication requests. Then I clear out the dead ones each morning. Agree with other people that banning as many domains as possible helps, so *@*.ru etc.

But what really nailed it was these two...

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=404113

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=373695

Luckily, one of my buddies is happy messing around in code, so added these and bob's your uncle :twisted:

Still get occasionals, maybe one a day or so.

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