OMG! All the spam!
Hi Everyone,
Just to let you know we are aware of the spam that's occurring on the forums and we're busy implementing a strategy (i.e. plug-in) to prevent it.
Please just ignore the spam for now and we'll delete it as soon as we notice it.
Just to let you know we are aware of the spam that's occurring on the forums and we're busy implementing a strategy (i.e. plug-in) to prevent it.
Please just ignore the spam for now and we'll delete it as soon as we notice it.
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It took me forever because the MVC model the forums use were using my backup .old files instead of the .php files and I spent days trying to figure out why none of the edits I made were working.
Legion Ink uses a honey pot and an ip registration email checker as well as a "rotate these pictures so they're upright to prove you're a human", of the 3, the various "prove you're human" options have always been the one people fall over with.
We still get a few human registered bots, but they're easy enough to pick off with the email/username/ip checker once they're recorded in a spammer db.
In the 2-3 years we've had these running together we've only had 4 false positives due to dynamic ip shifts or really short usernames so I'd recommend a team of plugins like that.
I think this is the vanilla equiv of the plugin we're finding most effective (redacted for security) do you have something like it already?
I recommend checking the current memberlist against the db to weed out any sleepers as well if you haven't already.