The Blue Elephant Brigade

ashlad · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:34 am Post subject:

I thought that was how it worked in the first place. Maybe I don't understand the mechanics of it. I'm not really interested in being all exclusive and elitist, either. How does one go about taking applications without being flooded by SPAMbots?
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Leedon · Moderator Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 1478

We'll have to look into that...
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Izane Bricks · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:14 am Post subject:

Find the plugin on the phpBB boards and Glistam will install it...

Unfortunately that plan falls apart between the words "Glistam" and "will".
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5075

Only when I delete all my PM's and don't save the PM you sent me the link in.
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Trassin · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:56 am Post subject:

Not sure if it is spammers trying to gain access or not but I've noticed that every time I check the site today the Guest visitor number is up around 15 or 20. Either the site has suddenly become very popular and no one is registering for some reason or something fishy is going on.

Update: It's at 35 now.
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5075

There were 23 just now, and they all seem to be yahoo crawler IP addresses. So at least this invasion is just the yahoo search engine indexing us.
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ashlad · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:44 am Post subject:

How ironic; your face is melting.
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5075

Thanks, I forgot to fix that.
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ashlad · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:01 am Post subject:

By the by...

ashlad · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:26 am Post subject:

The newest registered user is ToysSexGamer.

Guess that means the floodgates are open.
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5075

And the flood has indeed come.
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ashlad · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:28 am Post subject:

Okay, I've got two questions:

1. When I joined this site, I remember that I had to wait for my account to be activated by Glistam before I could use it. If that's still the case, why do the as-yet-unactivated-accounts show up on the board for all to see? Is that something that can be eliminated?

2. Can an account be auto-deleted if it is not used for the first time within a given period of time? Is that even a good idea?
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5075

The account is still created, what I have to give approval for is for that account to use the boards.
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ashlad · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:32 am Post subject:

Could they get interim access to a single thread? Preferably not the intro thread as that one's a bit important. How about one titled "To SPAM or not to SPAM", where we can sort out the humans from the bots and PM you a thumbs up when we find a human?
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5075

My initial thought was no, but after thinking of it I'm inclined to think "maybe." I'll look into it.
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5075

There's a new field that a new registrant needs to fill out before their account can go through. This should help cut down some spammers. I also deleted all the ones that were waiting on authorization.
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5075

Since I implimented the two fixes intended to stop spammers, we have gone from 5-6 spammers registering a day to only 1 having registered at all since then.
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Trassin · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:29 am Post subject:

Nice
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Lotan · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

I'm killing the following post in "General Discussion". I don't have the power to ban people though, so I'll let you take care of them.

Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5075

Thanks, I deleted their account.
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