caserri Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 We are experiencing another round of spam attacks here at TVF. It has been quite some time since our last attack. We've had 14 new members join us in the last 24 hours, which is unheard of. 2 of them have already spammed the classified section and have been deleted. If anyone notices any garbage being posted, please report it so I can take care of it. There is a report button on each post and another report button in each member profile. Your help to keep our community litter free is appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlock Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 If anyone notices any garbage being posted, please report it so I can take care of it. There is a report button on each post and another report button in each member profile. But, half of us post nothing but garbage here. How are we to tell the good garbage from the bad garbage? Maybe I'll just refrain from posting for the next few days to avoid confusing anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caserri Posted March 24, 2011 Author Share Posted March 24, 2011 I knew someone would respond like that! I would have put money on will.vend though. I've tightened up the registration process a bit in an effort to stop these golphers at the door and so far it seems to be working. I won't go into details but I will say the system is booting about 10 new registrations every hour! This wave of attacks is far worse than the last. Luckily, the ones that do make it through are only going after the classified section and not the main board... yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinnJinn Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Just out of curiosity, are these more less "bots" or are they actual dumb golpher humans that have nothing better to do than to mess up a forum? if its humanoids, do they get paid to do this crap? or is their mind somewhat twisted and they are seriously mentally handicapped and immature and have nothing better to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caserri Posted March 28, 2011 Author Share Posted March 28, 2011 Well I would assume they are bots. The only thing I did was require email validation and so far, none of them have validated their account through their email. If they start to validate then I'll take it to the next step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEREMYTINA Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Are you using a CAPTCHA as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caserri Posted March 28, 2011 Author Share Posted March 28, 2011 Are you using a CAPTCHA as well? Yes, we've always had that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission vending Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Yes, we've always had that. Just curious, what is captcha? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEREMYTINA Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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