protecting forum
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Printed Date: May 02, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Topic: protecting forum
Posted By: j.reed
Subject: protecting forum
Date Posted: November 07, 2009 at 1:54 PM
I was wondering if anyone can tell me what programs are being used to protect this forum?
My clan forum has become a place of multiple spams recently for software and medical pill junk but, some have been of a pornographic nature. Supposedly our moderator has banned IP's coming from the sources, even ip range. We still get the same type of post just about every night. The IP's keep changing(common with bots) I like how this forum makes it so you have to have a minimum number of posts before you can enter Http's. Any help to better protect our forums would be greatly appreciated. We already have the letter recognize program and email confirmation. These alone are not simply enough.
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My clan forum has become a place of multiple spams recently for software and medical pill junk but, some have been of a pornographic nature. Supposedly our moderator has banned IP's coming from the sources, even ip range. We still get the same type of post just about every night. The IP's keep changing(common with bots) I like how this forum makes it so you have to have a minimum number of posts before you can enter Http's. Any help to better protect our forums would be greatly appreciated. We already have the letter recognize program and email confirmation. These alone are not simply enough.
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Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: November 07, 2009 at 2:23 PM
No programs really, just a lot of conditional statements, filtering and persistent moderators. We still get our share of spammers, so don't feel like you're alone :)
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the12volt • Support the12volt.comPosted By: j.reed
Date Posted: November 07, 2009 at 2:35 PM
I figured the12volt still gets its share of spam. We have been looking into some PHP programs to help. I guess nothing is really as effective as just continually monitoring the situation. For most users on our forum is not a problem. There has just been a huge influx of Bot activity lately. Every morning we find that we are having to go in and ban around 10+ user accounts and spams in every public forum. These latest ones of which have been for pharmaceutical pills and software bots. Which seem to be coming from russian IP's. I suggested the moderator to just dis allow Http's and picture posting from users under say 25 posts. This would help from inadvertently clicking a spam link or lord forbid pornographic links. Any other ideas to keep bot spams out?
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Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: November 07, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Most bots do not accept cookies, so if you set a cookie for each user, then call for it before displaying the form, if it's blank, do not display the form. Also if the referrering URL to post is not from your domain, disallow the post. These are just a couple, but you can easily add more conditional statements as you see necessary.
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the12volt • Support the12volt.comPosted By: j.reed
Date Posted: November 08, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Thanks for the recommendations. I will let our moderators try and implement this and see if it does the trick.
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Posted By: the12volt
Date Posted: November 09, 2009 at 11:27 AM