f'n spammers f'n spammers f'n spammers f'n spammers

[USbongLord]

Keep it as it is..no more mods...I'm here a lot,,ya want me As a mod?....lol...lemming fine mr helpers...power corrupts,we got enough

[treetop]

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[Balou]

Maybe its time that Lemming blocks new members from posting links until you have made 10 post, I know its possible.

[Cisco]

It really is getting ridiculous , time for bye , bye if it keeps up

[Lemming]

Maybe its time that Lemming blocks new members from posting links until you have made 10 post, I know its possible.

Not sure that would help but it's worth a try. How do you do it?

It really is getting ridiculous , time for bye , bye if it keeps up

Hey, where's your sense of humour? You don't have to clean up this shit.


It's kinda funny that we get targeted by kitchen spam. Presumably they've latched on to the word "coffee".

[Cisco]

Lol

[Not_the_monk]

Hahaha

Maybe its time that Lemming blocks new members from posting links until you have made 10 post, I know its possible.

Not sure that would help but it's worth a try. How do you do it?

Several possible methods I could find (what exact version of phpBB is this btw, I presume its a 3x? Much more familiar with vB myself)

A couple of potential mods, this one just addresses urls - https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/ ... d_for_urls

And this one is more complex but has a number of associated functions - http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Php ... pam_hammer

Or as another alternative, see measure #1 here (possibly the easiest of the 3) - http://www.michel-kraemer.com/5-anti-sp ... for-phpbb3


Edit - here's another one, comes with a decent install guide and looks like maybe the place to start imo - https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2096637

[elasticband]

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It's kinda funny that we get targeted by kitchen spam. Presumably they've latched on to the word "coffee".

Or it is a direct attack of the forum

[Lemming]

Thanks for the info Not_the_monk. I'll check those out. We're on 3.0.11 incidentally.

@elasticband - I don't think it's personal. I think they use a scattergun approach. A lot of spam is completely automated but automated countermeasures stop most of that. The rest is probably some poor buggers in a third world country manically signing up onto forums, blogs and so on promoting their client's scams as widely as possible.

[treetop]

Thanks for the info Not_the_monk. I'll check those out. We're on 3.0.11 incidentally.

@elasticband - I don't think it's personal. I think they use a scattergun approach. A lot of spam is completely automated but automated countermeasures stop most of that. The rest is probably some poor buggers in a third world country manically signing up onto forums, blogs and so on promoting their client's scams as widely as possible.

This sounds about right. Almost feel sorry for the poor spammer having to use his/her English skills to make a living like that!

[gapie]

spammie again
BENNIE

[Lemming]

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2096637

This sounds perfect. Stopping people from posting links on their first day would probably do the trick. Counting days rather than posts is probably safer. I’ll try to get this installed when I have a bit of time on an appropriate connection.

[Uncle Ron]

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2096637

This sounds perfect. Stopping people from posting links on their first day would probably do the trick. Counting days rather than posts is probably safer. I’ll try to get this installed when I have a bit of time on an appropriate connection.

Thanks Lemming...
I know interfering is something you don't like to do... however there are circumstances which call for small measures...
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[Lemming]

Done.

If I've got it right, it should not be possible to post a link until you've been a member for 3 days.

[spidergawd]

Thats great Lem . As the bots cant get through easily they're now paying poor sods to do it manualy, paid per link planted I reckon. The last couple I've noticed have started a thread that sounds like it might be worth a look -no kitchens in these ones- and then linked in the second post. Do they get paid per view I wonder