The temu spammers lately

[lovinthehd]

Why can they so easily create id's/memberships let alone myriad posts?

 

[ryanosaur]

Why can they so easily create id's/memberships let alone myriad posts?

Right? Their spam-fu is strong. Very strong.

 

[Steve81]

I have no idea… I just volunteer here I could hazard a guess, but no point speculating.

 

[Mikado463]

Admin needs to tighten up registration protocol ?

 

[highfigh]

Why can they so easily create id's/memberships let alone myriad posts?

Probably mo good way to make sure it's not a bot but I don't remember if it has Captcha or something similar. I'm a member of an installer/AV contractor forum and they were being hammered far worse than AH. We're still waiting for them to launch the site after changing servers and hopefully, security. It has been 5 months since it was operational.

 

[highfigh]

Admin needs to tighten up registration protocol ?

Make it like the 'I want to join the Judean Peoples' Front' scene from 'Life of Brian'?

 

[Verdinut]

Why can they so easily create id's/memberships let alone myriad posts?

I have been suggesting James to use the Captcha logging affirmation "I am not a robot". Captcha also can use the multiple image test.

CAPTCHA - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ryanosaur]

I have been suggesting James to use the Captcha logging affirmation "I am not a robot". Captcha also can use the multiple image test.

CAPTCHA - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Captcha is not without flaws and issues. It also really p!sses users off.

Another forum institutes a mandatory approval by mod for new posters... first 10 posts or something like that. The funny part here is that one guy posted... after it showed up, he edited it and it got caught in the mandatory approval loop again because he was still below post count!

 

[gene]

I added a temu filter and updated captcha. Let me know if this helps.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I added a temu filter and updated captcha. Let me know if this helps.

Thanks. Can you also add a mandatory delay between account creation and creating new threads, maybe one or two days?

 

[ryanosaur]

I added a temu filter and updated captcha. Let me know if this helps.

They’re back!

 

[j_garcia]

Right? Their spam-fu is strong. Very strong.

it is BOT Spam-fu, so not even people lol. That is how their spam fu is good but brains small.

 

[panteragstk]

Make it like the 'I want to join the Judean Peoples' Front' scene from 'Life of Brian'?

I thought it was the Peoples' Front of Judea?

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I thought it was the Peoples' Front of Judea?

Duck off! 'Judean People's Front'. We're the People's Front of Judea! 'Judean People's Front'

 

[highfigh]

I thought it was the Peoples' Front of Judea?

"You really have to want to join".

I do!

"Right, you're in".

 

[ryanosaur]

Temu spam bot testing out new functionality. 300% more nuisance!
*facepalm

 

[shadyJ]

Temu spam bot testing out new functionality. 300% more nuisance!
*facepalm

For some reason, we are getting slammed with spammers recently. I don't know why.

 

[ryanosaur]

For some reason, we are getting slammed with spammers recently. I don't know why.

Time for @gene to bring in some hacking talent and set them to work with a mafia-boss type of instruction that “it would be nice if they never spammed us again.”

 

[Verdinut]

Captcha is not without flaws and issues. It also really p!sses users off.

Another forum institutes a mandatory approval by mod for new posters... first 10 posts or something like that. The funny part here is that one guy posted... after it showed up, he edited it and it got caught in the mandatory approval loop again because he was still below post count!

Thinking about the situation which never ends, personally I wouldn't surely be pissed off with Captcha. Moreover, I don't think the majority of members would disagree with its use taking into account all the trouble that those posts entail. Many web stores are using it, and nobody complained to my knowledge about reduced access to the websites or sales caused by it.