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gshv
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 Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject: Spammers ... again |
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We had many spam posts in the forum yesterday night and this morning. Deleting these posts was not fun at all, so I modified forum software to prevent further spam postings. This change should not affect anybody except spambots. As a side effect of this change you may notice that if you post a quick reply - say you hit the reply button, quickly type "yes" or "no" and submit the post you may be redirected to the preview page. In this case hit the "Submit" button again - the message will posted.
I also made a change so that not logged-in users, unregistered users and spambots cannot see people's e-mail addresses in profile or on the "Memberlist" page.
As usually, if you have any problems with posting, PM me or e-mail me.
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gshv
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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Ignore this post. Testing reply as a registered user.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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Ignore the post. Now testing reply as unregistered (not logged-in) user.
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gshv
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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Last test... ignore it.
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CPUShack
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gshv
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks John for doing that! I hope from this moment on we'll get less spam. I just checked the logs - one spam was already blocked, and it was the same spammer who posted 10+ spam messages today and yesterday.
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skold
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| it may be more effective to just deny posts from unregistered users.. and possibly have an approval system where new accounts need to be approved before posting. this could stop some people from bothering though :/ |
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gshv
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| skold wrote: | | it may be more effective to just deny posts from unregistered users.. and possibly have an approval system where new accounts need to be approved before posting. |
Yes, that's the easy way to solve the problem.
| Quote: | | this could stop some people from bothering though :/ |
Agree. This is why I don't want to make all forums for registered users only.
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CPUShack
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:57 am Post subject: |
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Seems fine to me. 10 spam messages isnt TOO bad to deal with, one of the other boars I mod/admin at has been hit by 100-1000 spams in a day (THAT was a pain)
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chipcollector
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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Why do they spam like that? I don't want to sound like a bad person, but if I found the man responsible I wouldn't hesitate to teach a thing or two. Am I right or am I right?  |
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gshv
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| chipcollector wrote: | | Why do they spam like that? |
Their spams contain links to their web sites. The spammers' goal is to get as many links as possible pointing to their website(s). Because Google and other search engines use the number of incoming links as a measure of website popularity, the sites with large number of links have much greater chance to be listed on first pages of Google/Yahoo/MSN search results.
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gshv
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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It seems that sometimes "post a reply" page may go to preview page instead of posting the message. If you encounter this please press "submit" button again. I'm looking into this...
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CPUShack
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| gshv wrote: | | chipcollector wrote: | | Why do they spam like that? |
Their spams contain links to their web sites. The spammers' goal is to get as many links as possible pointing to their website(s). Because Google and other search engines use the number of incoming links as a measure of website popularity, the sites with large number of links have much greater chance to be listed on first pages of Google/Yahoo/MSN search results.
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exactly, though who you link TO is also becoming very important.
(I do SEO consulting in my free time)
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