How do we get rid of this excessive spam?
Just reported three of them now.
They're very likely to be bots, so I suggest a solution like the honeypot method (adding an extra field which bots will fill out, because they render HTML itself), auto-IP-banning them if you happen to fill in that - if they start to recognise hidden fields as hidden, then it might be worth just visible the box and saying 'DO NOT FILL THIS IN'.
Another method is banning new users from posting links for seven days or so or some other retarded restriction to stop them. Some of the bots likely put links in their signature so no one notices anything, but engine still recognise it and indexes the URL better, since that is the point of it other than to annoy people.
If it's humans we can't really do anything about it, though.
There's some good suggestions on this page, actually, although this deals with trying to stop human (kitchen) spammers it can be applied to bots more easily: http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/stuff/crapstuff/vance-miller-kitchens.html (and it's quite interesting to read it as well, although there's a lot of excessive swearing in it)
A good idea to fuck them up is to apply a word filter on users with less than x posts in URLs, which messes up their spam post...
Maybe there's some shit in the user agent string which might be detectable by the board.
~Cammy White
Just reported three of them now.
They're very likely to be bots, so I suggest a solution like the honeypot method (adding an extra field which bots will fill out, because they render HTML itself), auto-IP-banning them if you happen to fill in that - if they start to recognise hidden fields as hidden, then it might be worth just visible the box and saying 'DO NOT FILL THIS IN'.
Another method is banning new users from posting links for seven days or so or some other retarded restriction to stop them. Some of the bots likely put links in their signature so no one notices anything, but engine still recognise it and indexes the URL better, since that is the point of it other than to annoy people.
If it's humans we can't really do anything about it, though.
There's some good suggestions on this page, actually, although this deals with trying to stop human (kitchen) spammers it can be applied to bots more easily: http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/stuff/crapstuff/vance-miller-kitchens.html (and it's quite interesting to read it as well, although there's a lot of excessive swearing in it)
A good idea to fuck them up is to apply a word filter on users with less than x posts in URLs, which messes up their spam post...
Maybe there's some shit in the user agent string which might be detectable by the board.
~Cammy White
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