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Forums getting spammed

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Samuel
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Re: Forums getting spammed

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sdevaney wrote:Check again, there should be a custom profile field asking for your OS version.
Now I saw the question. I'm not sure if you understood my intentions.
I want to add an question that every andors trail player should easily answer but a bot could not. (and the answer to that question can be true or false)
Human trying to register:
Lets see Name, Password, standard chaptcha... Ok, have the informations.
Whats this? "What game is this forum for?" - Andors Trail of course. I will fill that in
Thank you for your registration.
yay! :D
Spambot trying to register:
Lets see Name, Password, standard chaptcha... Thats easy, I can handle this.
Whats this? "What game is this forum for?" - Mh, I will try something like "blah" there
Sorry please fill in your registration again, you did't answer the question properly. Perhaps you are a Spambot.
:roll: - Mh, I will have to check for another forum to spam...
Or did you check the format of the android version? Would be hard as there are many versions available in the future.
Hopefully this was clear.
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Re: Forums getting spammed

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Email confirmation together with a simple question, "are you a spambot" with correct answer "no", kept my forums 100% clean for 3 full years. But you could throw in a captcha when registering.
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Skuggan wrote:Email confirmation together with a simple question, "are you a spambot" with correct answer "no", kept my forums 100% clean for 3 full years.
Nice one. ;-)
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It seems to have gotten a lot worse the past week, maybe someone figured a way around the checks?
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Re: Forums getting spammed

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It should be taken care of now but we will continue to monitor the situation.
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sdevaney wrote:It should be taken care of now but we will continue to monitor the situation.
I just flagged 7 more. :( :?
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tek wrote:
sdevaney wrote:It should be taken care of now but we will continue to monitor the situation.
I just flagged 7 more. :( :?
All by 1 account which is an improvement. I am up to about 30 accounts banned and 5 full domains just today. Since taking the measures I mentioned earlier things have considerably calmed down but as I said we will continue to monitor and do our best to remove any spam as soon as possible.

We appreciate everyone who reports posts it just makes it that much easier to take care of them.
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Happy to report them. I always get excited because I think there's a new post and then disappointed to see it's just spam.
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Mino wrote:Happy to report them. I always get excited because I think there's a new post and then disappointed to see it's just spam.
Diddo for me on both counts.
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there has been a lot more than before now a days. You guys have a few good suggestions here!
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