Massive SPAM attack
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Massive SPAM attack
What's up with the massive SPAM attack today? How come new members can sign up and then just create tons of threads out of the box? How about we block new members from creating threads for like a week or something, so they have to browse the forum first before they can post and then also throttle the amount of posts they can do during the initial days?
Last edited by superswiss; Aug 15, 2024 at 06:49 PM.
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or compare their email, ip and member name versus databases online.?
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What's up with the massive SPAM attack today? How come new members can sign up and then just create tons of threads out of the box? How about we block new members from creating threads for like a week or something, so they have to browse the forum first before they can post and then also throttle the amount of posts they can do during the initial days?
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@superswiss -
While it seem easy enough, it stops growth of real new members. It is not hard for a bot, or a center of second-world terror nation staff to just create new accounts with new email's (and a new IP every time).
It is more realistic to limit the total number of posts in X number of days. For me, first time I was on this forum was with a question that I was able to ask - and get answered in under an hour. Another MB forum I was shamed for asking......how DARE I not use the "Search" feature. I have not been back to the other MB forum.
While it seem easy enough, it stops growth of real new members. It is not hard for a bot, or a center of second-world terror nation staff to just create new accounts with new email's (and a new IP every time).
It is more realistic to limit the total number of posts in X number of days. For me, first time I was on this forum was with a question that I was able to ask - and get answered in under an hour. Another MB forum I was shamed for asking......how DARE I not use the "Search" feature. I have not been back to the other MB forum.
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@superswiss -
While it seem easy enough, it stops growth of real new members. It is not hard for a bot, or a center of second-world terror nation staff to just create new accounts with new email's (and a new IP every time).
It is more realistic to limit the total number of posts in X number of days. For me, first time I was on this forum was with a question that I was able to ask - and get answered in under an hour. Another MB forum I was shamed for asking......how DARE I not use the "Search" feature. I have not been back to the other MB forum.
While it seem easy enough, it stops growth of real new members. It is not hard for a bot, or a center of second-world terror nation staff to just create new accounts with new email's (and a new IP every time).
It is more realistic to limit the total number of posts in X number of days. For me, first time I was on this forum was with a question that I was able to ask - and get answered in under an hour. Another MB forum I was shamed for asking......how DARE I not use the "Search" feature. I have not been back to the other MB forum.
As you know, the forum is based on VB and VB has software that has algorithms to detect spam thread sadly that is only on the latest version.
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