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Postby Reesane » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:20 pm

I've noticed that the word "general" (in a thread/fourm name) seams to send them (spambots) on a spaming rampage. mabe we could change "General Discushion" to "Misalaneus" ex.
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Postby Lyokofreak » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:25 pm

Spambots work on Topic ID's, not names. I was just looking through it...
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Postby Reesane » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:29 am

Well... I think we have a new one....
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Postby Stonecreek » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:39 am

Oh yeah. Pushing drugs and doing a diservice to grammar.
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YDV wrote:Well you see, the amount of time we didn't normally hang around BKO is kind of like potential energy, and then when we all finally came back at the same time it's like letting loose a catapult. 8D

It's all very scientifical. |D


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Postby TB3 » Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:27 am

What's this new one then?
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Postby Stonecreek » Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:28 am

Over in G.D., posted a topic called Hot News. Go see the evidence yourself.
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YDV wrote:Well you see, the amount of time we didn't normally hang around BKO is kind of like potential energy, and then when we all finally came back at the same time it's like letting loose a catapult. 8D

It's all very scientifical. |D


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Postby TB3 » Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:32 am

Stonecreek wrote:Over in G.D., posted a topic called Hot News. Go see the evidence yourself.


Done - post deleted, thread deleted too.
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Postby Reesane » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:44 pm

We nead a spambot alert system, a thread which is exclusivly for reporting spam bots or somthing...
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Postby codeTONY » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:05 pm

AGAIN! More "Hot News" in GE.
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Postby Reesane » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:10 pm

We must ban the flippen' spam bot! :cussout:

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Postby Stonecreek » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:11 pm

Reesane wrote:We nead a spambot alert system, a thread which is exclusivly for reporting spam bots or somthing...


This thread seems to serve the purpose well...
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YDV wrote:Well you see, the amount of time we didn't normally hang around BKO is kind of like potential energy, and then when we all finally came back at the same time it's like letting loose a catapult. 8D

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Postby Reesane » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:18 pm

D***, This is one persistent spambot.

What I ment was, once a spam bot has been found, a mod or a well trusted meber could activat an emegency function, kinda like the new post alerts. Then, someone with the power to ban the user/dealet the thread could click on it and go directly to the post/user to ban them.
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Postby TB3 » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:18 pm

codeTONY-san wrote:AGAIN! More "Hot News" in GE.


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Postby Lyokofreak » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:38 pm

Starway, i think theres a simple way of taking care of this problem. Change forum ID'S. If you could somehow make about 8 new forums under root (ex BKO, Fan Art, Newbs...), and keep them hidden to everyone, position them higher than all of your current forums. I can't think of any problems bisides old links on the forum not working, and new users seeing these. The Spambot forums should use the ID's of other forums, like General Discussion, which is 8. Spambots will post in here, and can't be seen by our active users. The General Discussion forum will have to be bumped. If you can just change the FID numbers WITHOUT making new forums, thats awesome! It would cut alot of the difficulty in the process.

Spambot forum now FID # 8 (A group only users with 10 or less posts can see)
General Discussion forum now FID #24

It's also alot of weight off the mod's backs. Not many spambots post more than 10 times without being noticed. The extra fluff can be deleted by mods.

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Postby Reesane » Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:50 pm

Or we could add levils:

0- Less than ten posts, cannot post links/pictures, or start a new topic outside of the newbie thread.
1-Newbie thread/10 posts, can post picturs, links, and can start new threads.
2- Trusted users, can now use the VA forums and have the potentail to use BKO
3- Sub Mods: they can use an emergency spam alarm and have other priveleges.
4- Mods (Well, all of the super user powers which a normal mod has)
5- Admin (As far as I can figur out, starway and the other Admin can also ban people as well as use all of the othe powers of the mods.)
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Postby Colinahscopy » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:27 pm

i like the levels and changing the ID's

i dunno if they will work well
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Postby DarkestSoul X21 » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:35 pm

I hate spam bots, is there a way to get rid of them.
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Postby Lyokofreak » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:42 pm

I had a PHPBB forum sometimes ago, and if i'm correct, I dont see why changing the FID's wouldn't work along with the rest of it.

Reesane wrote:Or we could add levils:

0- Less than ten posts, cannot post links/pictures, or start a new topic outside of the newbie thread.
1-Newbie thread/10 posts, can post picturs, links, and can start new threads.
2- Trusted users, can now use the VA forums and have the potentail to use BKO
3- Sub Mods: they can use an emergency spam alarm and have other priveleges.
4- Mods (Well, all of the super user powers which a normal mod has)
5- Admin (As far as I can figur out, starway and the other Admin can also ban people as well as use all of the othe powers of the mods.)


That could cause some heat with legitimate users.
Imagine how many rank changes star way would have to do....
There is a limit to the things you can do on PHPBB, it dont think that would work. Nice idea though :thumbs up:
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Postby DarkestSoul X21 » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:43 pm

I just can't stand them.
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Postby Reesane » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:37 pm

Lyoko Freak wrote:I had a PHPBB forum sometimes ago, and if i'm correct, I dont see why changing the FID's wouldn't work along with the rest of it.

Reesane wrote:Or we could add levils:

0- Less than ten posts, cannot post links/pictures, or start a new topic outside of the newbie thread.
1-Newbie thread/10 posts, can post picturs, links, and can start new threads.
2- Trusted users, can now use the VA forums and have the potentail to use BKO
3- Sub Mods: they can use an emergency spam alarm and have other priveleges.
4- Mods (Well, all of the super user powers which a normal mod has)
5- Admin (As far as I can figur out, starway and the other Admin can also ban people as well as use all of the othe powers of the mods.)


That could cause some heat with legitimate users.


Nope, thease are user groupes, not ranks. And if you creat a newbie thread, you will atomaticly receve acses to level one.
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Postby Haruno Sakura » Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:53 pm

Agh, spam bots. This is the first time I've seen or heard of forum spam bots. It gets me angry that people do this kinda stuff just for fun, or advertising. x.x How annoying.
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Postby Lyokofreak » Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:58 pm

Reesane wrote:
Lyoko Freak wrote:I had a PHPBB forum sometimes ago, and if i'm correct, I dont see why changing the FID's wouldn't work along with the rest of it.

Reesane wrote:Or we could add levils:

0- Less than ten posts, cannot post links/pictures, or start a new topic outside of the newbie thread.
1-Newbie thread/10 posts, can post picturs, links, and can start new threads.
2- Trusted users, can now use the VA forums and have the potentail to use BKO
3- Sub Mods: they can use an emergency spam alarm and have other priveleges.
4- Mods (Well, all of the super user powers which a normal mod has)
5- Admin (As far as I can figur out, starway and the other Admin can also ban people as well as use all of the othe powers of the mods.)


That could cause some heat with legitimate users.


Nope, thease are user groupes, not ranks. And if you creat a newbie thread, you will atomaticly receve acses to level one.


Then the bots would be able to target the newbie thread? Like I said, it's a random target FID, so it's possible to target newbies forum. And then, it will give the forum a bad impression to the new users.
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Postby Darkborn » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:41 am

BOT IN GENERAL DISSCUSSION! TERMINATE IT!
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Postby Keiji » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:24 am

The best thing to do is to put a question in the register page, and change it every so often, e.g. "what's the name of this forum?" or "who made code lyoko?" etc. Bots will never be able to get past that unless whoever codes them takes the time to update their bot every time the question is changed.
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Postby Reesane » Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:53 pm

New spam bot in G.D.

Named "realfan87"

Is posting random web pages.

Bah.

Still in RPG mode.

must.... stop......


GAHHHHH!


ok, thats better.

We have a new spam bot in general discushion, and it is posting some sort of cr** about web pages or somthing..... :cussout:
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