Some of you may have noticed already that a handful of your fellow forum-goers have a new badge:
(http://tremulous.net/forum/Themes/default/images/badges/spamkiller.png)
This is given to those users who make good use of the "Report to Moderator" button, as well as those who make a timely attempt to report issues in IRC to the mods/devs.
We appreciate all the help users give is in combating spam, and will be doing a lot more in the future to abate the amount of spam bots that get through. Currently it seems like we are facing another deluge of spambots (this past week has seen about 2000 spambot registrations alone) and your help in fighting this nuisance is essential.
Thanks!
Awesome. I know who to smite now without the annoying trouble of actually having to read their names first. :D
Sounds great to me!
I just deleted over half the members of this forum, all of whom where spambots.
I'm sure there are some left, if you spot them - Let us know!
Also, I installed a mod where you need at least 10 posts to put a link in your sig. If you see anyone with a signature that says *link removed* , it's likely a spambot - please flag it!
Khalsa
There's a report to moderator button?
bottom right of your post, in the default theme.
Quote from: David on April 13, 2010, 12:08:31 PM
bottom right of your post, in the default theme.
You have too many badges.
Give me one.
Quote from: David on April 13, 2010, 12:08:31 PM
in the default theme.
No wonder I forgot about that button; I use the theme that used to be the default theme.
Oh so certain functions of the forum are disabled for people who have a different colour preference. You'd think the trem theme would be pretty standard wouldn't you?
Nice.
Ooh, shiny!
How about an "oldfag" badge for people who have been hanging around for too long?
I'd like a "report user" button for spambots, but there's too damn many. The entire first three pages of the members list is full of spambots, excluding tier and Jordy(numbershere).
Quote from: Thorn on April 13, 2010, 12:48:55 PM
Oh so certain functions of the forum are disabled for people who have a different colour preference. You'd think the trem theme would be pretty standard wouldn't you?
Nice.
This is precisely why that theme is not default.
Quote from: khalsa on April 13, 2010, 08:11:12 AM
I just deleted over half the members of this forum, all of whom where spambots.
Hmm... I think Khalsa forgot to give someone the Spam Killer badge.
Quote from: janev on April 13, 2010, 01:51:02 PM
How about an "oldfag" badge for people who have been hanging around for too long?
(http://vilkacis.net/junk/oldfart.png)
Unfortunately even with the forum default theme, I cannot report a user's profile to a moderator. The first thing that I thought to do when I saw this thread was was to look through some usernames. Buisnessloan101 for example seemed suspicious and now has *link removed* in his signature (some of the other buisness* names also seem suspicious, but have nothing incriminating in their sigs).
I see it right under the username in posts, and AFAIK I'm using the default theme
Quote from: A Spork on April 13, 2010, 08:04:55 PM
I see it right under the username in posts, and AFAIK I'm using the default theme
I switched to the default earlier so I could see the report
post button, but there is no report
profile button anywhere.
Where's the member list anyway? Closest I can get is Who's Online (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?action=who) (wtf there are a lot of guests!). And yes, report profile would be nice.
http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?action=mlist
It's in the top menu on the default theme. (And when I say default I mean SMF default, not board default).
And AFAIK smf doesn't support reporting profiles.
LMFAO 3.5 pages/~175 accounts registered in 1 day. We need some more captchas. Or something.
AFAIK they have humans doing captchas now. So technically the captchas are working...
IMO an automated thing to nuke all accounts older than a week that never logged in a second time would help.
Or just ban China/India/wherever. :p
Quote from: UniqPhoeniX on April 13, 2010, 09:35:19 PM
LMFAO 3.5 pages/~175 accounts registered in 1 day. We need some more captchas. Or something.
If you sort the user list by registered date and look at the websites, they're all spammers.... I mean, usernames like "accts1234abcd" or "vinylss1234bcd"
Quote from: David on April 13, 2010, 09:39:08 PM
Or just ban China/India/wherever. :p
Yes, Timbo could certainly do it.
Idea: Force you to "solve for x" as a CAPTCHA.
I could only imagine how much longer it would take them to register if they had to solve "13=sqrt((x/(x^2)) P (11))" each time. :)
Quote from: KillerWhale on April 14, 2010, 05:21:29 AM
Idea: Force you to "solve for x" as a CAPTCHA.
I could only imagine how much longer it would take them to register if they had to solve "13=sqrt((x/(x^2)) P (11))" each time. :)
Throw in quadratics that have to be solved to solve more quadratics :]
Quote from: ocmt1977 on April 14, 2010, 05:42:44 AM
I'm new, but shoot - sign me up as a spam hunter! :police:
Ooh the irony!
hey it works!
someone got rid of my spam
congrats
I want a badge for my killer spam!
I'm not a spammer, i'm a posting MEMBER - quit reporting me! ugh
Your "Website" says otherwise.
EDIT: Nice, 2 necros in 1 day.
One man's SEO is another man's SPAM.
Stop necroing and posting 'me too's and people might think you have something more to contribute than Pagerank.
Holy crap - 9000 users total and pages of new registrations in 1 day, including someone advertising cheesecakes online at this very moment. Reporting by hand would be completely useless against this flood. The moderators should have a "delete account" button on the user list, so that they could look at the website address and 1 click delete if it looks like advertising. Adding a column for last active date would also help - it would be much easier than running a python script to fetch each user's profile individually just to extract it from the html.
You seem to have cleaned up to about April 7 (page 42 sorted by registration date descending) but you missed 14750 and 14764 (dating tips website).
For the math captcha, have people solve for a, b and c such that a^3 + b^3 = c^3. That'll get rid of the damn bots.
Being computer programs, bots will be better at math than some of the people I've seen around here....better think of some other ways...
What about a hidden (have it display below an image or something) textbox with id=name? Is that already done?
If things get really bad, what about asking a trivial question? Perhaps "What is the name of the game these forums are about?" or "What is the name of the development team" or "Name an alien starting class" or "What's cute and green and lives in a hovel?" (deprecated).
I have removed the "Are you a bot" question on registration and replaced it with some randomized puzzles.
Edit: http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?action=globalAnnouncements;id=5
May 1st all users with 0 posts get deleted!
Quote from: F50 on April 20, 2010, 01:28:24 AM
"What's cute and green and lives in a hovel?" (deprecated).
You can take the Granger out of the Hovel, but you can't take the Hovel out of the Granger :P
RIP
Quote from: F50 on April 20, 2010, 01:28:24 AM"What is the name of the development team" or "Name an alien starting class" or "What's cute and green and lives in a hovel?" (deprecated).
+1, except what if someone wants to register to ask for help with install?
Quote from: UniqPhoeniX on April 20, 2010, 04:30:44 AM
Quote from: F50 on April 20, 2010, 01:28:24 AM"What is the name of the development team" or "Name an alien starting class" or "What's cute and green and lives in a hovel?" (deprecated).
+1, except what if someone wants to register to ask for help with install?
Moderated guest postings?
Quote from: UniqPhoeniX on April 20, 2010, 04:30:44 AM
Quote from: F50 on April 20, 2010, 01:28:24 AM"What is the name of the development team" or "Name an alien starting class" or "What's cute and green and lives in a hovel?" (deprecated).
+1, except what if someone wants to register to ask for help with install?
Well you *could* just put up a link to the manual (even the hovel question can be answered like that), but that wouldn't be particularly newbie-friendly. Giving suggested search terms such as
development or
class or
hovel would help (try searching for the answers with those search terms, they are not hard to find). It would still stump bots, but that would make it rather easy for human spammers as well.
I am currently taking further steps to stop spammers. Including using several Honeypot DB's in the registration check.
this just made me wanna go get some spam loool.
Quote from: Conzul on April 20, 2010, 01:04:14 AM
Being computer programs, bots will be better at math than some of the people I've seen around here....better think of some other ways...
Well, I can guarantee that no bots will get around that captcha. There is a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.
/me give Liskey a cookie.
Quote from: Liskey on April 21, 2010, 12:04:35 AM
Quote from: Conzul on April 20, 2010, 01:04:14 AM
Being computer programs, bots will be better at math than some of the people I've seen around here....better think of some other ways...
Well, I can guarantee that no bots will get around that captcha. There is a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.
But you forgot the "a,b and c have to be positive integers" part :(
We need improved captchas
(http://www.tremulous.net.ar/files/drupalbb/5/funnycaptcha01.jpg)
:D
I really hate calculus
Quote from: DevilishFreak on April 21, 2010, 04:25:49 PM
We need improved captchas
(http://www.tremulous.net.ar/files/drupalbb/5/funnycaptcha01.jpg)
You know, this would have the added benefit of keeping out anyone under 14.
Quote from: Conzul on April 21, 2010, 10:37:04 PM
Quote from: DevilishFreak on April 21, 2010, 04:25:49 PM
We need improved captchas
(http://www.tremulous.net.ar/files/drupalbb/5/funnycaptcha01.jpg)
You know, this would have the added benefit of keeping out anyone under 14.
I'm sure that a lot of people (including me) over 14 couldn't answer this.
Quote from: Colynn' on April 21, 2010, 11:39:28 PM
Quote from: Conzul on April 21, 2010, 10:37:04 PM
Quote from: DevilishFreak on April 21, 2010, 04:25:49 PM
We need improved captchas
(http://www.tremulous.net.ar/files/drupalbb/5/funnycaptcha01.jpg)
You know, this would have the added benefit of keeping out anyone under 14.
I'm sure that a lot of people (including me) over 14 couldn't answer this.
Oh you could answer it, just not correctly.
Thats ln(2)
Doesn't everyone know that?
If that little blob between arctan(x) and sin(1/x) is a *, the sandwich theorem says you're right.
If it's a -, then the limit doesn't exist. I can't tell.
Are we off topic yet?
Quote from: Liskey on April 22, 2010, 12:04:52 AM
If that little blob between arctan(x) and sin(1/x) is a *, the sandwich theorem says you're right.
If it's a -, then the limit doesn't exist. I can't tell.
Are we off topic yet?
It's a multiplication symbol.
Also: I have a professor who took calculus while in her grade school. Apparently there are kids out there who like to torture themselves.