HarryA Posted June 29, 2019 Report Posted June 29, 2019 Why don't you all use the spam prevention tools? https://invisioncommunity.com/features/spam/ On my forum one must answer a question that any kayak or canoe paddler would know to register. Got read of the damn Russians! Quote
admin Posted June 30, 2019 Report Posted June 30, 2019 This feature is enabled on our community but seems spammers get new way to register and post. We keep a close eye on the situation. Quote
HarryA Posted July 3, 2019 Author Report Posted July 3, 2019 I think your registering question is weak. I would ask a question that requires a Yahoo search. Perhaps the spam computers could not do that. Like what is Pi to the 6th decimal place? Quote
admin Posted July 4, 2019 Report Posted July 4, 2019 Yes it seems so, any idea for an electronics related question? Quote
HarryA Posted July 5, 2019 Author Report Posted July 5, 2019 Something like what is the: "unit of capacitance"a five letter word". It is only a slight inconvenience at most for real people plus they only have to do it once. I set up a forum earlier this year and asked the local padding group if they wanted to use it but they decline. I did not do anything with it for a few months until I got an error message via an email. When I looked at it I had 6800 members, 90% were Russian. As I could only delete 30 members at a time it took awhile to get rid of them. Quote
admin Posted July 5, 2019 Report Posted July 5, 2019 I have now added: "How many color bands a typical resistor has?", let's see how it goes and if this guessed easily i will replace it. Quote
HarryA Posted July 14, 2019 Author Report Posted July 14, 2019 Can the bad guys login via "Sign in with Twitter or Linkedin" or Anonymously thus avoiding the question? Quote
admin Posted July 15, 2019 Report Posted July 15, 2019 They are mostly registering as a plain user, they pass the question, automatic Spam Defense which flags the accounts with spam score and they also approve their email address which is new each time. Quote
HarryA Posted July 17, 2019 Author Report Posted July 17, 2019 If you open the register page and right click on the page and select "view page source" you see the html code that makes that page. If you search on that code for: "form_q_and_a" you will find the block of code that renders that area on the page.(in firefox search by ctrl+ f) and that contains your question. If one is comfortable with working with files on the server one can find the file that contains the "form_q_and_a" string. then download it to your pc and replace the text string with an image ( jpg or png file ) of the text in mixed colors and fonts. If you don't have the tools to create such a file I do. You may not see you text string in that file as it maybe added in at run time. In my first forum I got to the point that I would register members via an email request myself; they where not allowed to do so. I used their requested user name and assigned them temp.password and that works well if you do not have many request per day. It beats having to clean up the forum everyday. Quote
HarryA Posted July 22, 2019 Author Report Posted July 22, 2019 On my forum if you replace http: and keto one can at least alert guests not to click on the links and that may help. At least it is not difficult to implement. from my forum (note spaces around SPAM and SPAMMER - helps them stand out): Put the word to be censored on the left, and what to change it to on the right. http: => SPAM KETO => SPAMMER given: http://www.badguy.com => SPAM //www.badguy.com this is keto crap => this is SPAMMER crap Members posting url's in a post would learn to use the short version without the http: www.rcgroups.com Is spam the correct word or does that only apply to emails? Quote
HarryA Posted November 24, 2019 Author Report Posted November 24, 2019 Congratulations! Looks like you got read of the bad guys 😊 Quote
admin Posted November 25, 2019 Report Posted November 25, 2019 Yes, we installed a new layer of defense that seems that did the trick. Quote
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