Shy Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 [size=1]These spam/porn/ad/bots are ridiculous. Why are they even able to register for the site? -Shy[/size]
James Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 [font=franklin gothic medium]We have only recently (as in, within the last few months) updated the registration security for OB, but these bots are obviously something new. I'll have a chat with Petie and Desbreko about this to see if we have any other options to block them out. It may be, if worst comes to worst, that we have to incorporate a more complex registration system - hopefully not though.[/font]
Nerdsy Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 [color=deeppink]This is unwarranted discrimination. Bots have been some of our best members. I myself was a bot for the first 3 weeks I was here. A surgery corrected the problem, but if we had always discriminated against bots there would be a lot less pink in OB's history. And honestly, who would want that?[/color]
Petie Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 [COLOR=Blue]From personal experience, I've found the [url=http://recaptcha.net/]reCAPTCHA[/url] system to work really well. I noticed a drastic decrease in the number of spam registrations once I switched over to it from the default CAPTCHA system. Some will still slip through but they are few and far between. Unfortunately, it seems as though this version of vBulletin does not support reCAPTCHA but it's something we can look at adding once we upgrade. [/COLOR]
Desbreko Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 [color=#4B0082]OB currently doesn't use any form of CAPTCHA images for verification, but instead it asks a question and a correct answer has to be entered into the form. Both the questions and corresponding answers are completely customizable, and after the first couple spam posts recently I went through and changed all of them. Obviously it doesn't seem to have helped... I kind of doubt any form of CAPTCHA would be more secure than this, though. Whereas bots can use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software on CAPTCHA images, they'd have to be able to actually read and understand the questions in order to enter the correct answers since each forum that uses this type of verification has its own set of questions. I don't know a lot about bots, but it seems like that would be a whole lot more complicated than simply OCRing images and spitting out the result. I'll look around on vBulletin.org for more anti-spam hacks.[/color]
Shy Posted February 14, 2009 Author Posted February 14, 2009 [quote name='Desbreko'][color=#4B0082]I don't know a lot about bots[/color][/QUOTE][size=1]That sounds like something a bot would say... :shifty: -Shy[/size]
Gavin Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 [quote name='Shy'][size=1]That sounds like something a bot would say... :shifty: -Shy[/size][/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE]
Boo Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 [quote name='Gavin'][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][/QUOTE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE] [SIZE="1"]Ne soat likthmeo, tsounds hingt woul a bod say! [/SIZE] [SIZE="1"]at sas y! oomsNng a boo, ths like thit woeunduld [/SIZE][301 system failure]
Gavin Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 [quote name='Boo'][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE][SIZE="1"]No, that sounds like something a bot would say! [/SIZE] [SIZE="1"]Ne soat likthmeo, tsounds hingt woul a bod say! [/SIZE] [SIZE="1"]at sas y! oomsNng a boo, ths like thit woeunduld [/SIZE][301 system failure][/QUOTE] [SIZE="1"]*Shotgun sound* You're terminated. ;)[/SIZE]
The Spectacular Professor Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 [YOUTUBE]anwy2MPT5RE[/YOUTUBE] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"]This thread amuses me.[/FONT]
Aaryanna Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 [FONT="Tahoma"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][SIZE="2"]Over at theOtaku, the trendy thing to do is blame Shinmaru. So perhaps if we blame him here too it will solve the problem! >_> <_<[/SIZE] [SIZE="1"][I]*IT'S SHINMARU'S FAULT!*[/I][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT]
Shy Posted February 15, 2009 Author Posted February 15, 2009 [quote name='Aaryanna'][FONT="Tahoma"][COLOR="DarkGreen"][SIZE="1"][I]*IT'S SHINMARU'S FAULT!*[/I][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/QUOTE][size=1]Oh we've been doing that for years here. I think I even nominated 'Bashing Shinmaru' one year for the Nifty 50 because of how widespread it had become. -Shy[/size]
jomz Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 [quote name='Shy'][size=1]Oh we've been doing that for years here. I think I even nominated 'Bashing Shinmaru' one year for the Nifty 50 because of how widespread it had become. -Shy[/size][/QUOTE] What? This is his fault, too? :O Shinmaru really does spread the blame...
Solo Tremaine Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 [COLOR=#503F86]If it isn't Shinmaru's fault, something is very wrong.[/COLOR]
jomz Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 [QUOTE]Shinmaru is not at fault! Shinmaru is not at fault! Shinmaru is not at fault! Shinmaru is not at fault! Shinmaru is not at fault! Shinmaru is not at fault! kj kasjk asj kl boot crack fazzah! [Script error at line 201][/QUOTE] Anyway, seriously, hope things on the bot crack down go well. Spam is a big pain, and the more they are undetected, the more they grow. >> << *coast is clear...*
Lady Asphyxia Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 [FONT=Arial Narrow][I]Why won't somebody think of the children? [/I] And I was going to mention something similar to Shy's post, but he did it better and with much more adept conveyance of superiority. :p[/FONT]
Botar Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 Im not a bot, ask anyone besides Drizzt, oh, and ignor my name, even though it has bot in it.:box:
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