No mods around, there is a whole bunch of spambots , and nothing I can do, someone needs to do some work on "blocking" these things, this could have been prevented.
It may even "crash" the forum again.
deltaflyer wrote:sorted m8,not as fast as i used to be at typing
clearly, someone has sussed out a way to circumvent the "automated" tools that are currently in place. Maybe it's time to re-examine, and perhaps to fortify, FDN's first-line defenses.
GarryRicketson wrote:I realize it is impossible for anyone, including admins, to keep a eye on it 24 hours a day
GarryRicketson wrote:@dasein : Thanks too, I am not very familiar with how they have the adminstration and mods set up
If I understand the implementation correctly here, all that 'spamhunters' can do
is move posts to a hidden 'recycler' forum? I so, that is in fact sufficient.
Most sane people have no real interest in this, but for certain people it's truly a
sickness. They will often suck up and 'brown nose' their way onto the staff,......
Good news is that this type of user has a 'soft centre' and after some repeated prodding will usually just throw their toys out of the pram and resign their position (especially when being told they've overstepped the mark).
That is enough, if a "spamhunter" happens to be on line at the time,...Ok well any way, I can't think of much else to say on this at the moment.@Dasein, At FDN, spamhunters have basically two tools: the ability to move a given post (or thread) and to ban a user. Global powers (such as removing all posts by a given user) are reserved to mods and admins.
Oh,...well, I am not the maker, or designer of the "funcaptcha", so it is not like you are criticizing me,...no problem,I am all for any means to reduce spam' so please don't consider this as a criticism: I went to your funcaptcha link, and was somewhat disappointed that it was the type of captcha that I seem to have the most problem "solving"; so much so that lately when confronted with one, I just go away.
so much so that lately when confronted with one, I just go away
Whatever, I will say that if I have to solve the fun captcha type, it will result in me not hanging around here regularly anymore
What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:FWIW, I never seen any spam on the Arch forums.
They use a shibboleth-type captcha:What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/register.php
Seems to work very well...
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