[DaveyJJ]

Mobilize Eric! Get Frost airborne! Wake up that damn big cat and let's go Swiffer™ these spam bots away! Crickey! I'd say the board's defenses have been flooded (or at least the registration form is haxored badly).

[dojoboy]

These spambots must be of the Terminator variety.

[Frigidman]

Its called: One guy whined, now the entire defenses have been removed for all the uckfups in the world to join and spam away.

Trying to get the new version of the forum software in place... however I don't believe it will make a lick of difference. Any 'known code' (open source or otherwise) already has workarounds for it by spam bots and spammers. The only way to slow them the hell down, is to do what we were doing for years. Which is restrict signups to "REAL" email hosts and disallow any stupid freebie accounts.

[the Battle Cat]

So this is how it's going to be for a long time, visit IMG Forums to get all your most up to date porn links. If you have kids, you should keep them away from here because even logging in repeatedly during the day to try to find and delete the new spam accounts before they can post hardly makes a dent in them. I've already got Eric and Frost in full smackdown mode and you are still swamped with spam. I'm not joking either, if you have kids you don't want them to be in these forums. If you ARE kids, does your mom know you are looking at porn? You don't belong here.

[DaveyJJ]

the Battle Cat, on August 31st 2009, 04:15 PM, said:

So this is how it's going to be for a long time, visit IMG Forums to get all your most up to date porn links. If you have kids, you should keep them away from here because even logging in repeatedly during the day to try to find and delete the new spam accounts before they can post hardly makes a dent in them. I've already got Eric and Frost in full smackdown mode and you are still swamped with spam. I'm not joking either, if you have kids you don't want them to be in these forums. If you ARE kids, does your mom know you are looking at porn? You don't belong here.

Fine. But how am I going to reconcile all this with the 12 year old Japanese girl that lives inside me?

[Frost]

Yeah, the spam's gotten so bad we'd have to practically live on here to stop it all.

And that's just the stuff that slips in after we've checked in; you miss the river of stuff we catch before you guys see it. I've deleted about five or six times as much spam in the past 7 days as I have in my whole time as a mod here. It's frakkin' retarded...

[teflon]

Well firstly you should have chewed when you ate her, and secondly, I'd start by learning Japanese...

Now that this guy has created his user account, can't you bolt the doors shut again? I mean, Im used a hotmail account to sign up way back when, and I imagine that's one of the free emails that was blocked? So blocking up the holes again and coming up with some course of action to ensure this doesn't happen again would be... good?

[Frost]

Yes, I'd say so, but that's not my call, I'm just the help.

EDIT: Just to give you guys an idea of what we're dealing with, from May through mid-August, the spam deleted from the forums fills up one page of the "trash" forum list. Spam deleted since August 21 when the torrent started fills up a little over FOUR PAGES.

EDIT 2: And I caught another two spambots while they were registering while typing this. I'm afraid my M1 Garand is no longer effective, I need to send a request to supply for a Browning 1919.

[teflon]

Its the pinging of the empty clips that's holding you back. The bots know that's when you're reloading and they're rushing you.
You could try chucking an empty clip against a hard object to get the same ping and draw them out for some easier kills...

[The Liberator]

teflon, on September 1st 2009, 08:33 AM, said:

Its the pinging of the empty clips that's holding you back. The bots know that's when you're reloading and they're rushing you.
You could try chucking an empty clip against a hard object to get the same ping and draw them out for some easier kills...

Exactly.

Two other things, would it help if when the mods are not on the board, that a member PM's them about another spammer? Or is that not needed? Also, what about Tesseract (as he would be able to cover the other time zones that you guys cannot)? More hands make less work.

Liberator.

[Magnum]

The Liberator, on August 31st 2009, 06:06 PM, said:

Tesseract (as he would be able to cover the other time zones that you guys cannot)? More hands make less work.

Liberator.

This.

[The Liberator]

Magnum, on September 1st 2009, 09:19 AM, said:

This.

Sorry, what do you mean?

Liberator.

[Frost]

The Liberator, on August 31st 2009, 06:06 PM, said:

Two other things, would it help if when the mods are not on the board, that a member PM's them about another spammer? Or is that not needed?

We all get a PM whenever someone reports a post, so you don't need to actually PM us, just report a post and we'll all get a notice. Whoever sees it first will 86 the spammer. And yes do please go ahead and hit report when you see spam. I have Mail up and running at all times on my computer and it checks for mail every 5 minutes, so if I'm at my computer, I will see your report within 5 minutes of you sending it. Even when I'm not at the computer, Eric seems to practically live here, so I'm sure he'll see it.

Make sure you send it in Sand or Comic Sans just for him.

[The Liberator]

OKay, sure. Thanks.

Liberator.

P.S. I will send it in Sands.

[the Battle Cat]

DaveyJJ, on August 31st 2009, 01:24 PM, said:

Fine. But how am I going to reconcile all this with the 12 year old Japanese girl that lives inside me?

When she sees her naked pics spammed on these forums she'll be sorry she accepted all of that candy.

[Frigidman]

the Battle Cat, on August 31st 2009, 05:59 PM, said:

When she sees her naked pics spammed on these forums she'll be sorry she accepted all of that candy.

I eagerly await those pics.

<_<

Wait, what, did I say that out loud AGAIN ?!?! gah.

[The Liberator]

Ha ha ha.

Liberator.

[Magnum]

The Liberator, on August 31st 2009, 06:25 PM, said:

Sorry, what do you mean?

Liberator.

I was agreeing with you that Tesseract could be a worthy forum mod.

Frigidman, on August 31st 2009, 08:10 PM, said:

I eagerly await those pics.

<_<

Wait, what, did I say that out loud AGAIN ?!?! gah.

Hi I'm Chris Hansen.

[J'nathus]

I am administrator on another forum that has really slowed down as of late and become an archive.

First we tried the captchka (sp?), then upgrading the forums with a lifetime license for InvisionPower . .. it seems our spam registrations were only slightly negated by that changover.

When there was a site with E-mail spammer domains, I was slowly harvesting that information and adding it to the blocked domains, but as has been pointed out, more and more are coming form GMail, Yahoo and Hotmail.

THEN we locked it down to admin approval ONLY... that stopped the spammers cold, but then we always had to have someone on the boards every day, which got harder as time went on. Additionally the spam registrants were getting so high that we found it easier to simply delete all of those entries - potentially stopping interested registrants.

Finally we stopped producing our podcast, and things slowed way down for our board, so I pretty much took the BIG leap and locked registrations. That's it! No more... You snooze, you lose. No more spammers. So, all you need to do is stop gaming on Macs, let the forum die down, lock the registrations and no more spammers!!! It's easy!

[Frost]

I think a better route would be just locking the free e-mail services back down and then dealing with the trickle of spam than killing all of Mac gaming.