You're just trying to advertise your own forum. You spammer you!Jazcash wrote:My solution seems to have worked: http://springrts.com/springnetwork/forums/
I just made the captcha image the background of a div instead of the source of an img and it seems to have blocked out 100% of the spammers so far. Before that board was pretty much made out of spam.
Most spambots pull captcha images from inside img tags and just ignore everything in divs.
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Interesting idea, and easy enough to try.
So, implemented on test.springrts.com now. If some of you can test this and say whether it has any issues then in a few days we can deploy this.
So, implemented on test.springrts.com now. If some of you can test this and say whether it has any issues then in a few days we can deploy this.
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Tested the registration with FF 3.6.24 and Chromium 15.0.874.106 both old browser versions and both work. Chromium didn't show the div at first but after a refresh it did. Retried several times and the captcha was visible every time so I think it was a one off (network) error.
The captcha did also show with FF 9.0.1
I also received a conformation e-mail from the address spring@it-l.eu ?
The captcha did also show with FF 9.0.1
I also received a conformation e-mail from the address spring@it-l.eu ?
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I can help out if you need more moderators! I am good at killing those spammers with bans!
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i sense some weird karma in this sentence....JediDoubleJedi wrote:I can help out if you need more moderators! I am good at killing those spammers with bans!
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lol
i think the idea is to have something automatic.
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i think the idea is to have something automatic.
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Firefox 9.0.1, captcha showed, got conformation email, guess it worked...So, implemented on test.springrts.com now. If some of you can test this and say whether it has any issues then in a few days we can deploy this.
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he he booble.
knorke is it possible these are the aforementionedandfeared human spambots.
knorke is it possible these are the aforementionedandfeared human spambots.
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Note that I left my img tags there instead of removing them altogether but just replaced the image with a transparent overlay of Mr Bean's face. Just to really confuse the better spambots
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Spammers, who are you talking about?
Oh, right, smoth and PicassoCT...
Oh, right, smoth and PicassoCT...
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AF wrote:we can only assume one of our forum members was stupid enough to take the bait and purchase something from a spam link, thus ensuring the return of spammers for the next few years
They are probably trying to improve their site's rank on google. The existence of the link is enough for them.
The spammer's user profile page can contain links too. That might make it still worthwhile to spam us even if we delete all spam posts.
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can we hire them for advertising? Spring Spam on Spring board, recursion in a embededded system? Sure. :)
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aren't all links on forum nofollow by default?
Edit: nvm, guess they're not...
Edit: nvm, guess they're not...
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They should be default, at least for signature links.gajop wrote:aren't all links on forum nofollow by default?
Edit: nvm, guess they're not...
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Profiles aren't visible to non-members though, and also our robots.txt should disallow search engines to look at them.