Icy Phoenix

WTH??? :twisted:


@Luca....

You should take a look at http://www.bot-trap.de/home/ ASAP

If you have any Questions, because this site is in german... let me know...

oehm

i just see odelot up there.

thats one off my users, and for shure not an spammer.

I hope he is´nt banned

I saw the spam the other day and send the administrator several blue cards

I'm not a spamer

Don't worry Odelot is in the report forum not the bin :wink:

EDIT: thanks for reporting btw :mryellow:

This place has far too much spam and no-one is doing anything to help prevent it. :censored:





And it's about time something is done about it - Because coming here just to read SPAM posts is becoming another reason NOT to come here.

:roll:

I am doing my best to move all such Spam posts into Recycle Bin. :(

Well Mort I'm sure you know how we deal with spam reports and unreported spam.

This zibiwen user got me alittle confused, I wonder how it can be that he made new posts without showing up to me as new posts :?:
But while i was dealing with a few others TheSteffen took care about that one :P .. thanks

Preventing spam is really upto MG but the reason why it's not done yet must have something to do with being user friendly

(right now I'm still watching 3 users, waiting for them to prove my suspicions to be right)

This matter has been brought up before but MG seems to be pretty reluctant to put any Spam-Blockers in place for whatever reason and I really can't understand why?

:shock:

There are a few spam-blockers that could be in place, and I'm sure that genuine new members would understand why these things are necessary?

:P

mort wrote: [View Post]

There are a few spam-blockers that could be in place, and I'm sure that genuine new members would understand why these things are necessary?

100% agree

Guys, I have tried several spam block service in the past, and none of them were working flawless.

I used to receive several emails by users being not able to register and I got tired, so I removed any "centralized" spam check, because spam evolves and you are not going to find a way to block them all.

Every antispam measure has a downside... I'm not willing to ban a whole range of IP just because they are listed somewhere... even myself cannot register on some websites because of such measures, and I honestly got even more annoyed.

If you really feel unconfortable with spammers you should avoid having an internet connection.

For example... spamhaus... there are a lot of false positive...

http://www.phpbb.com/community/view...1554165&start=0

http://willysr.blogspot.com/2008/12/ip-banned-from-spamhaus.html

You might block Spam-bot´s with captcha or a security question, but i don´t think you´ll ever get to block all Human spammers

I have enabled some blacklists... let's see if situation improves in the next month.

As soon as I get an email from a user not being able to register, I will disable that.

Mighty Gorgon wrote: [View Post]

As soon as I get an email from a user not being able to register, I will disable that.

My friend there is an X-number of posts or X-days MOD before URL's that could be used that I'm sure could instruct new genuine users to enter URL's like so. [icyphoenix.c o m] until they qualify to add full Url's.

It will certainly kill robots. ;)

first 2 users already banned and trashed :cry:

mort wrote: [View Post]

My friend there is an X-number of posts or X-days MOD before URL's that could be used that I'm sure could instruct new genuine users to enter URL's like so. [icyphoenix.c o m] until they qualify to add full Url's.

It will certainly kill robots. ;)

But spam isn't just a matter of posting urls.

Joshua203 wrote: [View Post]

first 2 users already banned and trashed :cry:

I still think that there is no easy solution. :wink: