Spammers

[Sillypup5]

I was just thinking.. It seems the amount of spam posts/threads is doubling every day. Emily, can you set it so all new members have to be approved by one of the mods before they're allowed to post? That would certainly cut back on the spam. I don't think it would be too big of an inconvenience to new members, since there are a few of us mods here now?

[mobetta]

I have to agree, can this be done?

[Emily]

I am pretty sure something like that can be done, I just have to look how? I can also try setting up the way registration is to see if there is some anti spam bot precaution I can take that already has not been implemented.

[Alan]

Emily, as an admin from another board there are severals ways in the admin cp that you can combat this. You can have the verification letters that have to be typed in, you can make a new user group for new members from areas of the world that have the most spammers, we found that most of them are in canada and china. If you have any question feel free to ask me. I would be more than happy to help. Also I don't think you have the email going out that you have to open and click the link of to move from a member waiting on email activation to a registered user. Hope this helps some. That way they don't have to wait on someone to get online and approve them. Because the only people that can get into do that are the admins.

[Emily]

OK I set it so that it has an image verification and other verification for when you register.. if that doesn't help we'll have to step it up a bit.

[Alan]

you may want to do a test acct and see if it works. we had it happen that with 2 turned on neither of them worked.

[Sillypup5]

Canada?? HEY! I resemble that remark!!! lmao Either way, I hope this works!

[Kiwisoo]

some people are just so stupid. they have nothing better to do than spam a bird forum? geez!!!

[Alan]

some people are just so stupid. they have nothing better to do than spam a bird forum? geez!!!


I have to agree. But a lot of them are bots too. That's why the verification letters work a good bit.

[Emily]

Any issues with spammers lately or did whatever I did in the background work?

[Sillypup5]

There have been a few. I deleted/banned one last night before I went to bed. lol But there aren't near as many as there were before

[mobetta]

there hasnt been as many, but I do notice that alot of the banned names keep signing in...trying.

[Sillypup5]

yeah I've seen that too. lol. Atleast they can't post anymore.

[Emily]

Ok. I'll up the ante a bit more and see if that doesn't help. Thanks for being on top of it guys.

[mobetta]

Speaking of spamersmI banned like 7 or 8 just today Emily whats up with that?!?!?

[Sillypup5]

really?? Wow.. I haven't seen any for a while!

[mobetta]

yep...there must be a spammers covention in town or something tonight, I just counted for the heck of it and since about 4 or 5 pm i have banned 10 people that is sad dont people have things to do????

[Maia'sMom]

And I got one tonight who had 13 posts with foul language.

[Sillypup5]

wow! I was away friday night, and then I went to bed at 6pm ast night so I missed it all. I guess we need to beef up our new user security another notch!

[Maia'sMom]

Got another one. This is nuts!

[Sillypup5]

yeah I got rid of a couple this morning too.

[Maia'sMom]

Got another one.

[Sherry and Merry]

Keep your eye out for that "newest member"
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[Emily]

Weird I don't know what is going on. We were having an issue with newbies not being able to register but my techie fixed that and now the spammers are here again.. I'll put more security measures in place, thanks for doing a good job cleaning up for me guys.

[2goldens]

I think you all are doing a fine job. Keep it up.

Anthony

[Sherry and Merry]

I've noticed that everyone of the spammers have an ICQ # I sure hope they don't bring a virus into the group whenever they join. :weirdface

[Sillypup5]

Sherry, as long as you don't click on any of the links that are posted in the profiles or the spam posts they put up, you don't need to worry about viruses. But the links may very well be linked to a viral site.

[Kiwisoo]

There are a lot of new "members" with really weird names that seem to have joined the forum on October 27.

None of them have posted.

Are these spammers?

[Emily]

We've cleaned them up, they are spammers. I put in some new security measures that should help, I don't know why the sudden influx of spam. Its really annoying.

[Emily]

We had a crazy amount of spammers sign up and reinforced new security measures. New users, your first 2 posts most be approved before going live as a precautionary measure against spam. We want to keep this site family friendly and most of the spam, to say the least, was not. Hope this doesn't inconvenience or drive away any new timer's, we'll approve your post ASAP. In the meantime feel free to jump on in and get in the thick of things!