Regarding spam bots

Posted Dec 10, 2013
Hey everyone;

lately we've been having a lot of spam bots on this site; we've been actively banning them and for a few days we disabled the signups for these forums; hoping to see them leave. Yesterday we re-enabled the signups again; resulting at a bunch of spam bots logging in to the site again.

We're actively looking for ways to prevent spam bots more, but until we install some new features to do that, we feel that we need to keep the signups closed.

We'll keep you posted on this thread.

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Posted Dec 14, 2013
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We need captchas!
Posted Dec 15, 2013
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What if the majority of the post is written in whatever language we see spambots write in, it would be deleted immediately and the "user" would be banned. (Just a random idea for a prevention method.)
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Posted Dec 18, 2013
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Did you just enable signing up and these spambots started again with their gibberish? This is amazing. They're probably computers and not humans.
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Posted Dec 18, 2013
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yishbarr wrote:
This is amazing. They're probably computers and not humans.

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:biggrin:

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Posted Dec 18, 2013
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I just say now dat de spambots are de compyuters.
Posted Dec 18, 2013
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TheTobbell wrote:
yishbarr wrote:

This is amazing. They're probably computers and not humans.

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:biggrin:

Hmm. Reminds me of someone else on this website.

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Posted Dec 18, 2013
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Dr.Toaster Waffles wrote:
Hmm. Reminds me of someone else on this website.

My jokes are not serious, just a joke,
I have nothing against anyone in this forum here :biggrin:

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Posted Dec 18, 2013
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Dr.Toaster Waffles wrote:
TheTobbell wrote:

yishbarr wrote:

This is amazing. They're probably computers and not humans.

pic

:biggrin:

Hmm. Reminds me of someone else on this website.

No, not really. Just a picture.

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Posted Dec 19, 2013
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Dr.Toaster Waffles wrote:
TheTobbell wrote:

yishbarr wrote:

This is amazing. They're probably computers and not humans.

img

:biggrin:

Hmm. Reminds me of someone else on this website.

Who?

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Posted Dec 19, 2013
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You.
Posted Dec 19, 2013
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cough
OffTopic
cough
Posted Feb 01, 2014
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How about... Portal 2 Captchas!
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Posted Feb 01, 2014
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Quite weird. Mr. Cavey doesn't like witchcraft, but this is worse.
Posted Feb 01, 2014
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Lol. True, it is pretty weird =)

But yeah, normal Captchas should do the trick

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Posted Feb 06, 2014
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IT WON'T STOP UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
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Posted Feb 06, 2014
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Thats crazy, i thought that was solved..

iWork925 wrote:
IT WON'T STOP UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

Totally Agree.

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Posted Feb 06, 2014
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TheTobbell wrote:
Thats crazy, i thought that was solved..

Completely solved.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/149 ... apture.PNG

Posted Feb 06, 2014
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derpderpderp! We seem to have an invasion of spam bots again at the moment; I've deleted over 20 threads and banned the same amount of people; but yeah; this really has to stop. :S
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Posted Feb 06, 2014
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It's quite amusing to see what different kinds of neurodigging the spambots think of.