Dealing with Spam on the Forums

[Shotgun Jesus]

Nah, gonna try plugins I got yesterday.

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Everyone gets banned. clear out.

 

[Shotgun Jesus]

That might work.

 

[Thanatos]

Couldn't you just restrict it so you HAVE to have a Steam account linked?

 

[Tick Tock Man]

I've been clearing a lot lately too. Do we have access to Google's new Captcha thing with our version of Xenforo? Could also try content filtering, using that HTML link syntax that the bots always seem to use.

If I may suggest...

I found an extremely handy method for sorting the bots from people on my old forums - I created a text box and text that was invisible to the naked eye (text/line colors same as background - saying "what's 2+2") - the spam-bots do not require a different color to be able to pick up the text, and so place the answer in the provided text box - if the text box has anything in it the registration fails. Works like a charm.

 

[Shotgun Jesus]

Gatherix did some shit and then some fuck and hopefully AIDS gets shit-fucked now. Piss.

 

[OG buckshot jr]

Dick.

 

[Thanatos]

Great, now the only spam we'll get is Brains!

 

[Shotgun Jesus]

Seems to be working. I see them registering, but no posts make it through.

 

[Low Budget]

We seem to have been able to slow them down....for now. I'm still purging 5-10 a day that have registered but probably unable to post due to Gatherix's fix.