Blogs are full of spam

[pawsplay]

I can only report one spam every 60 seconds, so it might be more useful for a mod to get out the mop and bucket and go after Blogs. There's quite a few in there.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Thanks for the heads up. I've banned a dozen or so. It would be nice to prevent those guys from signing up, they seem to be bypassing security more easily now.

Cheers

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I saw this and thought...

[Dave Bowman]"My blog, it's full of spam!"[/Dave Bowman]

 

[pawsplay]

My hovercraft is full of eels.

 

[Plane Sailing]

My plane is full of snakes?

 

[Morrus]

Thanks for the heads up. I've banned a dozen or so. It would be nice to prevent those guys from signing up, they seem to be bypassing security more easily now.

Cheers

Yeah - there's a random question that a new user has to answer, and they seem to be actually answering them (easy stuff like days of the week, etc.)

Maybe the questions need to be harder?

 

[Plane Sailing]

Yeah - there's a random question that a new user has to answer, and they seem to be actually answering them (easy stuff like days of the week, etc.)

Maybe the questions need to be harder?

Sounds like slightly harder questions might be in line.

Are they generic questions which vBulletin includes as anti-spam, or are they ones that we have set ourselves? Perhaps some vaguely RPG related questions?

 

[Morrus]

I chose them myself. Here's what we have at present:

What is the third letter of the alphabet?
Type this number in digits (not words): forty two
Type in any one of the seven days of the week
How many legs does a dog have?

I worry that a newcomer to gaming might struggle with RPG-related questions.

 

[jaerdaph]

What is the third letter of the alphabet?
Type this number in digits (not words): forty two
Type in any one of the seven days of the week
How many legs does a dog have?

Thank goodness I joined years ago when the standards for membership were lower - I'd never be able to pass an exam like that today!

 

[pawsplay]

I chose them myself. Here's what we have at present:

What is the third letter of the alphabet?
Type this number in digits (not words): forty two
Type in any one of the seven days of the week
How many legs does a dog have?

I worry that a newcomer to gaming might struggle with RPG-related questions.

Sadly, a bot could probably handle those. If nothing else, it could keep retrying until it got the alphabet one. It would be trivial for a script to know to answer "C" any time the phrase "third letter" and "alphabet" appear in the question. And if not a bot, then hired hands who can speak a smattering of English and sign up for blogs all day.

You could make it harder without asking for a lot of RPG knowledge or engaging in riddles.

RPG stands for role-playing ___ ?
Type either word that the D's in D&D stand for:
Type, in words, any possible result of 1d6: