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altyfc Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Location: Aardvarkland Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:00 pm	Post subject: Spam sign-ups I notice you have a lot of spam sign-ups (ie. users who sign up and enter a web address in their profile but never participate). Strangely, though, I'm seeing addresses from this domain in their Profiles. Is this because you have edited this yourself by hand? Aaron


iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:22 pm	Post subject: Re: Spam sign-ups altyfc wrote: Is this because you have edited this yourself by hand? Aaron Yes. I did not want to have references to dodgy sites, so I replaced all with links to this site.

altyfc Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Location: Aardvarkland Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:56 am	Post subject: You know you could do things to stop them even doing this in the first place? Would save you a lot of hand editing. Aaron

capebretoner Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:39 pm	Post subject: Is there any way in phpBB to not allow people to put their web address until they get a number of posts?

altyfc Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Location: Aardvarkland Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:09 pm	Post subject: Yes, in a way. They still enter their address, but you can prevent it from showing until they reach 'x' posts. Aaron

iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:23 am	Post subject: altyfc wrote: Yes, in a way. They still enter their address, but you can prevent it from showing until they reach 'x' posts. Aaron Maybe it's just me, but I don't want to have any record or reference in the database.

altyfc Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Location: Aardvarkland Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:18 pm	Post subject: Well, there will be a record in the database, but it just won't be seen by anyone. Aaron

Scolls Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:03 pm	Post subject: I hate those sign-ups!

altyfc Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Location: Aardvarkland Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:20 pm	Post subject: Me too, but they're not too difficult to combat. Aaron

Scolls Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:33 am	Post subject: I'm a bit confused though. You can sort my users by posts ascending here: http://www.massdebation.com/memberlist.php. I mean, I've got a dozen or so members who have signed up but never posted. And their registration dates range up to all the way back to almost a year ago. No website address supplied by most, so my question is: Why go through the effort of signing up and not posting? I can understand a spam signup wanting to try get a free inbound, but look at all these with no websites listed? Are they just bored? Could it be that they go around signing up at forums for a kick?

iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:57 am	Post subject: Scolls wrote: Could it be that they go around signing up at forums for a kick? Many people just sign up as some kind of habit. This is why spam emails are still so popular today; people just sign up and they often give out their personal information. They even give out username and password often.

altyfc Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Location: Aardvarkland Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:31 pm	Post subject: If their spam sign-ups (you can often tell by the username), it could be that the web address is yet to be added. Aaron

iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:31 am	Post subject: Number of spam emails has increased, and this is becoming a bit problematic.

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altyfc

Joined: 27 Jul 2004

Location: Aardvarkland

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:00 pm

Post subject: Spam sign-ups

I notice you have a lot of spam sign-ups (ie. users who sign up and enter a web address in their profile but never participate). Strangely, though, I'm seeing addresses from this domain in their Profiles. Is this because you have edited this yourself by hand?

Aaron

iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:22 pm

Post subject: Re: Spam sign-ups

altyfc wrote:

Is this because you have edited this yourself by hand?

Aaron

Yes. I did not want to have references to dodgy sites, so I replaced all with links to this site.

altyfc

Joined: 27 Jul 2004

Location: Aardvarkland

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:56 am

Post subject:

You know you could do things to stop them even doing this in the first place? Would save you a lot of hand editing.

Aaron

capebretoner

Joined: 17 Sep 2005

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:39 pm

Post subject:

Is there any way in phpBB to not allow people to put their web address until they get a number of posts?

altyfc

Joined: 27 Jul 2004

Location: Aardvarkland

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:09 pm

Post subject:

Yes, in a way. They still enter their address, but you can prevent it from showing until they reach 'x' posts.

Aaron

iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:23 am

Post subject:

altyfc wrote:

Yes, in a way. They still enter their address, but you can prevent it from showing until they reach 'x' posts.

Aaron

Maybe it's just me, but I don't want to have any record or reference in the database.

altyfc

Joined: 27 Jul 2004

Location: Aardvarkland

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:18 pm

Post subject:

Well, there will be a record in the database, but it just won't be seen by anyone.

Aaron

Scolls

Joined: 05 Aug 2005

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:03 pm

Post subject:

I hate those sign-ups! Evil or Very Mad

altyfc

Joined: 27 Jul 2004

Location: Aardvarkland

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:20 pm

Post subject:

Me too, but they're not too difficult to combat.

Aaron

Scolls

Joined: 05 Aug 2005

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:33 am

Post subject:

I'm a bit confused though. You can sort my users by posts ascending here: http://www.massdebation.com/memberlist.php.

I mean, I've got a dozen or so members who have signed up but never posted. And their registration dates range up to all the way back to almost a year ago.
No website address supplied by most, so my question is: Why go through the effort of signing up and not posting? I can understand a spam signup wanting to try get a free inbound, but look at all these with no websites listed?
Are they just bored? Could it be that they go around signing up at forums for a kick?

iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:57 am

Post subject:

Scolls wrote:

Could it be that they go around signing up at forums for a kick? Question

Many people just sign up as some kind of habit. This is why spam emails are still so popular today; people just sign up and they often give out their personal information. They even give out username and password often.

altyfc

Joined: 27 Jul 2004

Location: Aardvarkland

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:31 pm

Post subject:

If their spam sign-ups (you can often tell by the username), it could be that the web address is yet to be added.

Aaron

iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:31 am

Post subject:

Number of spam emails has increased, and this is becoming a bit problematic.

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