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nostra:

--- Quote ---I would only block the one IP being banned
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I think blocking one IP does not solve anything.


--- Quote ---By a "pattern," I meant one that suggests they are real IP addresses (rather than somehow spoofed) and therefore can be banned.
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Not sure about this, but ass far I understand the IPs seem to be real


--- Quote ---It seems they consistently post in the first board. Maybe you should create a new first board called "Spam," and let them do their thing. Cheesy
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Yeah, does not look so good :(

rick.ca:

--- Quote from: nostra on September 16, 2011, 08:00:08 pm ---I have tried 4 mods already, different registration options - no use
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Did you try httpBL (implementation of Project Honeypot API) and Stop Spammer. These two seem to be mentioned most often by those who claim to have solved the problem (e.g., here) But maybe the better verification process in SMF 2.0 is a factor as well. :-\


--- Quote from: nostra on September 27, 2011, 12:06:52 am ---You have the permissions to delete accounts now.
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Is there something you can do that would allow me to use checkboxes to select accounts, then delete them all at once? They're being added at a rate of more than 50 per day—too many to deleted one-at-a-time. :(

jondak:
Easiest way its in my opinion that new accounts can't start new threads or reply to new thread till that reply or thread has been accepted by an admin. You can make it so that new accounts need 5 posts before they can freely post without being check.

Ivek23:

--- Quote from: jondak on September 29, 2011, 03:41:31 pm ---Easiest way its in my opinion that new accounts can't start new threads or reply to new thread till that reply or thread has been accepted by an admin. You can make it so that new accounts need 5 posts before they can freely post without being check.

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Very good proposal to limit spam posts and, therefore, to limit or to reduce the number of newly registered members who write spam posts.

rick.ca:
I suppose this would work, as long as there were always a moderator available to promptly approve legitimate posts. Requiring approval for the first post only would be good enough. But it wouldn't stop them from adding 50+ spam accounts per day.

This might work well in combination with the automatic deletion of accounts for which there has been no initial post within, say, 24 hours. The first message of the registration routine would be something like, "Registration is not required for viewing any part of this website, only for posting messages to the Forum. Please do not register unless you intend to post messages. New accounts for which no post is made within 24 hours will be deleted."

But I don't understand why any such measures are necessary. The other SMF 1.x forum I frequent is ten times as big and 100 times as active as this one. It's attacked in the same way, but has no measures like this. There are spam accounts in it's membership list, but only about one per day. Those ones are obvious spam accounts, suggesting they're not so few because the admins are deleting them. They must have measures that are effective in preventing most of them from registering.

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