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Are all the moderators on holiday?
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Mods may be deleting posts but they can't block or remove users, so they'll keep being posted. Admin have to do that, of which there are only two.

I think that's how it works anyway :lol:
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maybe a more active admin is needed? promote jonno up a notch?
Getting too old for this s*#t!!
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Anthony_Gemini wrote:Are all the moderators on holiday?
I'm here but there's only so much I can do :(

Like Andy said I can delete 10 posts by the user then find another 50 in another section.

I've got a lot of work on to so I haven't got the time to delete them all.


PS Thanks to all the people that alterted me to this the other day and the critics whining about it :lol:
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Thats a lot or work banning that lot ! bugger .

Fred on GemsWA we have a few things that stop it all , bots rarely get in anymore ..

1) We have a Gemini related Question that must be answered (an easy one question) .. The answer is not multiple choice either - it has to be typed in.
2)Next is the Hard to read "Captcha" that must be deciphered and entered correclty.
3)Once successful an email is sent to 4 admins who can all view the profile and accept it . Usually i do a quick facebook search of the members email if im suspicious ...
4)We also have an email address on our homepage for members who cant register for whatever reason ..

Try join up if you want . http://www.gemswa.com/phpBB3/index.php
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I implemented a simple "mod" to stop spam.
Get it here: http://support.prophpbb.com/download/file.php?id=199
What it does:
1. A registration attempt is made on your forum.
2. We query the SFS database to see if the username, email and IP address matches any known spammers.
3. We calculate a score based on the number of spam reports for each of those three values
4. Block the registration attempt if the score exceeds a specified threshold

This is pretty much the only way of stopping real people from spamming. We have been doing our best to stop bots, but a realtime blacklist is about the only way of stopping humans from spamming. Of course, this isn't perfect. Some people have common usernames (like "John") and we don't want to ban just because of that (so we make sure other fields are flagged before we take that into account). Also, some small number of innocent people may be flagged (so we make sure it's high enough to keep that from happening). Also, we don't want things crashing if their service goes down for maintenance or some other reason, so we safeguard against that as well.

So, those of you running (and keeping up with) a large list of banned IP's probably don't need to do so anymore. Having said that, this won't ban people (spammers) from your forum - only keep them from registering.
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Hi All,
Sorry for the continual spam lately.
I have changed the forum over to manual activation so that should stop the bots from registering.
I have cleaned out this thread of all the old spam link posts.
If you come across any more spam post it in here but I expect it should be pretty minimal from here on in :)
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spam is getting in again guys
Getting too old for this s*#t!!
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Lame...
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Cleared lemme know if there's anymore I've missed.
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workshop submissions has a few
Getting too old for this s*#t!!
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LOK15 wrote:workshop submissions has a few
We've had a few shemales try and dominate the workshop submissions section.

Only two but they've been sent back to Bangkok. If anyone sees some more before I do let me know.
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