spam prevention
 

got an idea from another forum to prevent spam. this sailing forum i just joined doesn't let you pm or start threads until you've had x number of posts. i think it would cut back on the rediculous amount of spam we've been getting if new users had to post 5 times before they could create a new thread. as much as i like the occasional transvestite sex picture collage, it's getting to be a little much

Now that is just funny...

Yeah... see my previous thread about spammers: https://www.zdriver.com/forums/site-feedback-suggestions-226/recent-spammers-25712/

ok. my tail is between my legs. my mistake

Naw... we do need to contact O NO and have him look into it more. Go forth and contact him. :D

what? you want me to?

KasbeKZ

I don't beleive we can do that on this version of VB but may look into it when we get the VB upgrade. I don't know when that will happen as I've been given dates for that which have all been over the calendar from a couple of months ago till the begining of next year. Your guess is as good as mine.

on one forum it made me do a math problem in order to register. lol. and BUT alot of spammers are actuall PEOPLE posting so its kind of a lost cause.

Yeah, a lot of the spammers are no longer bots, but man our poor Z31 for sale forum. I wonder why they're getting spammed the most with all these ****** and other worthless spam ads.

I think it is a bot, or a script. It probably drops to a certain number of main forum sections which happens to fall into Z31 all the time.

Same guy, uses the same name but just changes the last letter and keeps reposting. I guess he thinks his users will be banned right away. I dont' always have time so I will often just delete the threads.

O NO, you have any more firewall type tricks?

Out of curiosity, is this a fresh VB or hacked?

The reason I ask is because I'm a moderator over on another VB based forum and a while back we got slammed with spammers like no other. After implementing a few hacks they rarely get by, instead their posts show up in the "Reported Posts" section and automatically get thrown into Mod Q until properly handled. If this isn't something that's been done then I'd highly recommend it (although I'm sure you know that hacks are always a PITA), if this has been done then disregard this post.

: D

[edit] BTW:

https://www.zdriver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26632

whatever happened to IP banning? hell get me an address and i will call in a napalm strike!

Hi,
A while back we were under spam attack on the Zclub.net forum.Most of it seemed to originate from the Eastern block such as Russia,Poland and Eastern Germany.Blocking addresses from those regions reduced the spam posts by about 95%!

I dont' think I have access to IP block. My Admin rights don't go that deep into the programing of this forum.
O NO, Silverhand, Godzilla... those are the guys who can do that. All I can do is keep deleting their posts and banning people :(

FAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAPFAP lol

aww so your admin powers only go as deep as mod powers?


HOOV100 FOR MODERATOR!!!!!!!!!!!

is this a democracy? i would vote for hoov. as an addition. not that the current mods and admins aren't doing a spectacularly wonderful job!

i wouldn't vote for hoov. simply for the fact he wont be around any where near enough with the whole army thing. if anyone i'd vote nismopick. then me. lol.

Only current admins can vote for new admins and we don't discuss that topic in threads visible to you non-admin types. :D

but ya, my powers are only marginally better than a Super Moderator.

i know about us not being able to see the vote, but i have a feeling there isnt enough admins/mods visiting enough to even give the power out....

You wanna know what we do when we arent deployed? sit around on the internet viewing the latest porn.... Its when I'm deployed that I wont be able to get on as much. and that isn't till early 2010.

have you actually paid for a porn site? i can't imagine it being worth is. redtube ftw

pay? man i just find the most messed up porn for free and im set! lol. ;)

Personally i dont waste my money, But sometimes people get together and get subscription just for the hell of it.

yup, Bleach has hardly any more power than me.

yeah i was just wondering when you said the most recent porn. i haven't found a free site that does recent updates. it's all mixed in with old stuff. damn i am such a pervert

lol i got me a couple sites that update daily with either impressive stuff, crazy stuff, sometimes sick stuff, others funny.... and it has many links to sister sights, some of the sister sights get MESSED up though showing vids of people dead dying or getting maimed and shit.... idk its freaky out there the internet is ****ed up!

you can really find videos of dead people? that's crazy stuff.

hell yeah check out the site nothingtoxic.com

You guys don't have anything better to do. Then look up pics of women looking like trash? Sorry but I could think of better things to do with my time. ;)

i dont look nothin up! they come to me! lol

better things to do with my time.... nope. got nothing. porn is the best

whats porn? is it tasty, cause i like corn...

quite tasty.....

Tasty Porn? hmmmmmmmm

whos that ^^^

t4rd n00b?

lol. I've been trolling zdriver/hybridz for a good amount of time now, just don't post all that often.

its alright firm, snw just tries to keep an up to date list of active members by his computer :)

whats up with all the porn spam? a month ago we were spam free, we must have got put on a SPAM HERE list

no, its just that I'm not logging in as frequently and deleting all the threads before you see them.

Well, he should know that I walk with a cane that has a ****** sticker on it and generally sit around in a banana hammock singing Judy Garland.

:icon_super:

BTW, The porn spam is a little ridiculous right about now. Maybe add some words to the spam filter to stop this? It would create more work for the moderators, but it would be worth it.

I hate seeing this site being neglected like this.

Indeed... maybe a thread topic "word filter" is something the admins can do?

Where is O NO???? He's got the keys to this site and is never around.....

ill be admin, im on at least once a day and can delete porn stuff if needed. i think nismopick would make a great admin too, today the 13th, there are like 20 porn spams in the wanted section. the word filter would be good. btw where the heck has entropy been, havent heard from him in some time.

I don't understand, are moderators not able to delete threads/miserable users as needed? Is the owner of the site just against hacking VB even if it's for the best of his/her community? I'm not ragging or anything, just trying to get a better understanding.

Here's a quick thread that I yanked from the other forum that I'm a supermod on:

As you can see it has "trigger words" that spambuster will automatically yank it from public view and post it in a place where moderators/supermods/admins can review it and decide whether or not it's okay for public view. It also will take the person that posted the thread/post and automatically put them in Mod Q so that if they try to post anything else at all before the post is reviewed they will be unsuccessful.

And yes, I'm a supermod of a Honda Civic forum. The owner is a great guy and I love to be able to help him out. No ricer here (can't say that for there but hey, lol).

Just thought I'd share in case what I was saying before wasn't clear.

Apparently "O NO" doesn't care to be helpful much... I've PM'd him more than once to fix this spam problem. I just went to vbulletin.com & there are tons of ways to prevent spammers from hitting the forum like this.

Many forum admins don't allow new users to post links in their threads until they've reached 5 / 10 posts. There's also many plug-ins to prevent this as well.

Good hell...

here's the deal

There are several moderators and/or Admins but to me it seems as though I'm the only one deleting threads. Several threads, several times a day is getting annoying for me. If I'm gone for a few days then there are 100 threads to delete.

the actual owner of the site pays no attention to it. Maybe once a year i hear of him doing something or posting once. O NO is a new admin with the proper access to modify the software of the forum. he was helping out a bit at first but then moved on to other things.
I see he stopped by yesturday though.

So as far as I know, I just have to keep deleting threads by myself. it doesn't really solve the problem though. I'm just on permanent cleanup duty. :012:

like i've said before, i know the mod club is pretty sacred, but if there's anything i can do to help, like being provided with just the power to delete crap threads, i'd be glad to do it. my schedule puts me on here at about 4 different times of day about 6 days a week. anything else needed, do call

DUDE NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nismo was made a mod.... damnit..... i wonder if i was ever in consideration when that vote/choice came down... ahh the mysteries of the mod only section