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Thread: Spammers, another idea for admin
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01-25-2011, 08:48 PM #1
Spammers, another idea for admin
I forget how Bogley is setup, but when you first register is it by a captcha or like a two-word captcha?
If it is, then that explains the influx of spam...
If we can change the captcha to something to a question, such as "what outdoor forum am I on?" and the answer is "bogley", becahse I have read on the vbulletin forums, that this new method is a HUGE improvement over the captchas.
Make sense? It's worth a shot at least, or a trial run for a month or something.●Canyoneering 'Canyon Conditions' @ www.candition.com
●Hiking Treks (my younger brother's website): hiking guides @ www.thetrekplanner.com
"He who walks on the edge...will eventually fall."
"There are two ways to die in the desert - dehydration and drowning." -overhearing a Park Ranger at Capitol Reef N.P.
"...the first law of gear-dynamics: gear is like a gas - it will expand to fit the available space." -Wortman, Outside magazine.
"SEND IT, BRO!!"
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01-25-2011 08:48 PM # ADS
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01-25-2011, 09:11 PM #2
Yeah, the forum I run is phpBB3, and I had to swap over from a captcha to a Q&A spam filter because we went from having 1 or 2 spammers a day joining up to about 25 a day, last week. Crazy. Q&A challenges are better. What I put on the one I run, a local mountaineering forum, was "Enter a four letter word for the long, skinny, coiled, woven thing that joins mountaineers together when crossing a glacier", looking (of course) for "rope".
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01-25-2011, 09:25 PM #3●Canyoneering 'Canyon Conditions' @ www.candition.com
●Hiking Treks (my younger brother's website): hiking guides @ www.thetrekplanner.com
"He who walks on the edge...will eventually fall."
"There are two ways to die in the desert - dehydration and drowning." -overhearing a Park Ranger at Capitol Reef N.P.
"...the first law of gear-dynamics: gear is like a gas - it will expand to fit the available space." -Wortman, Outside magazine.
"SEND IT, BRO!!"
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01-25-2011, 09:40 PM #4
Please do something. The spammers are ruining the home page
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01-25-2011, 10:22 PM #5
As I said, about 25/day prior to the change. I only changed it two days ago, but haven't had a single spammer register since then. That forum requires activation, so none of the spam accounts were able to post anything. Most of the spam accounts signing up were from IP addresses from Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Lithuania, that sort of thing. So even humans being paid will have to understand and think about a question. I think it's worth a try, and vBulletin has a version built in, with unlimited number of questions, under Human Verification. Put in a couple of questions, and anyone actually interested will spend the 30 seconds to answer them.
Foot's coming along, thanks! Pain's improving all the time, and I can actually put a bit of weight on the heel (surgery was in the forefoot.) On track for a good recovery in 2-3 months, as promised!
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01-27-2011, 11:14 AM #6
The problem is, all of the spammers we've had in the last year are actually human, not bots.
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01-27-2011, 08:58 PM #7
http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?23612
This is crazy - the first clue, months ago, was when "Hiedi"'s name was spelled wrong. Terrible grammar, a post about bootcamps, and a link to a bootcamp link farm.
ash08 links to a site related to Hiedi's.
So what are these people being paid, to make it worthwhile for these folks? Crazy...
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01-27-2011, 09:42 PM #8
Yeah, it's tough. Sometimes our friendly bogley members will look past the bad grammar and welcome the newcomers (which is a nice thing to do) but there are the signs of spammers, like digging up old posts from years ago, making half a dozen posts all within minutes, short little 1 sentence replies, stuff like that.
The spammers will just search forums for the keywords, in this case it was boot camps of various kinds to post a semi relevant link.
I don't think they're getting paid much, but if they did it a couple hours a day, hit some popular forums, they could get paid a couple hundred a month maybe. It's all on how many clicks they get.
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01-28-2011, 06:34 AM #9
Yep, it's all SEO work. They search google for websites that rank well for a keyword they are targeting. Then by linking to their clients site from our content it gives them hits and a linkback which increases their google pagerank. Basic link building. SEO 101...
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01-28-2011, 06:52 AM #10
mildly watching this guy:
http://www.bogley.com/forum/member.php?19167-QSD1337
Fits the profile, but past the "link minimum" and still no links. Who knows.
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01-28-2011, 07:32 PM #11
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02-05-2011, 09:17 AM #12
another one. all posts about shoes and has a shoe link in the sig
http://www.bogley.com/forum/member.php?19212-romioshiny
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02-05-2011, 03:14 PM #13
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02-06-2011, 06:14 PM #14
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02-06-2011, 08:57 PM #15
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02-09-2011, 05:41 PM #16
Spam-O-Matic Statistics
1 Spammer Denied Registration
1 Spammer Permanently Banned
1 Spammy Post Automatically Moderated
love itChere'
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02-09-2011, 06:47 PM #17
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05-31-2011, 11:54 AM #18
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05-31-2011, 12:07 PM #19
another potential. looks like the post was edited after a link fail
http://www.bogley.com/forum/member.p...6-BLUEberryBOB
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05-31-2011, 09:05 PM #20
Check out the ad on the right. Apparently we have a few users reading this book.
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