Anyone know how to block specific IP blocks from this forum? Most of this louis vitton and nfl jerseys spam is coming from a common IP block in China.
This forum software is ages old and I've gotten zero response from "webmaster". - GA
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Anyone know how to block specific IP blocks from this forum? Most of this louis vitton and nfl jerseys spam is coming from a common IP block in China.
This forum software is ages old and I've gotten zero response from "webmaster". - GA
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...k-or-ban-an-ip
Try that. Been a while since I've messed with vBulletin- I use SMF on my own sites now. What about doing some 'human interaction test' to require an intelligent response to a question while registering. not just the little graphic "what is this word" crap that nobody can read- I hate those.
something like the prod site or another similar thing that requires a very small amount of common sense to enter the answer.
Doesn't look like I have the access...
Don't know what level of access you have here- usually that requires 'super-mod' or site admin access for vBulletin.
Of the VB forums I'm a moderator on, I can ban a single IP address, but I don't think I can ban a range of them. I always left that up to the other guys that were more aggressive in dealing with spam and spent my time dealing with rude people that needed a spanking.
And I have to say, I find it seriously perplexing that when I got to delete these threads, with titles like "luis vitton hanbags and a free nfl jersey", in a forum about motorsports, that some of them have 6, 7 views.
Why?
Greg
Apparently online shopping was more pervasive than we thought :D
T
There would be a whole lotta fun going on if I could figure out which one of you rat bastards keeps reading threads about louis vitton handbags...just sayin'...
:rolleyes:
They match my shoes.
The really fascinating part of that interview was what he decided to do after he calculated how many man hours were involved. He developed a way to use the captchas to translate books from English to another language, so every time we type in a captcha, we are translating a small part of a book. His response to the question of how long would it take to translate all of Wikipedia was about 80 hours. :blink:
They also use Captcha to "translate" OCR'd (scanned) books where the words are not legible to the computer. So each time we do one of those we're actually typing in all the characters to some old book/manuscript (that's why we see such oddball words/characters show up). - GA
Just think how many books Louis Vuitton has translated all by himself
T
Glenns picture is cross breeding.
Ok, so now 15 of you "guys" clicked on a spammer topic about lipstick...???
Not that there's anything WRONG with that but...seriously...???
Got another one in Southeast Division this morning.
Most of the fresh posts this morning appear to be spam.
Not sure what's been going on these past couple of months, but I've deleted more spam posts in that time than I have since the new forums opened.
Same thing is happening on my home forum. Normally between 4a and 6a ET.
When they make the post they stay logged in to see if anyone comments on it.
WTF?? Today I woke up to dozens of spam on the board. I'm really getting tired of dealing with this.
In order to perform upgrades and gain more administrative access, I've been offered the opportunity to take over this board. But I'm not going to do it on my own dime. If there's interest here to do this, I'd entertain thoughts about creating a PayPal account and making this a community-supported board. For example, upgrading the software is about $250, and we'd have to pay for domain registration/transfer, as well as web server space to host it. I'm guessing we're looking at ~$1000/year plus upgrades. Otherwise I'm on the edge of just letting this go as is and you'll just have to deal with the increasing amounts of spam.
Let me hear your thoughts.
- GA
Greg,
I would gladly support you taking over what Suloff started so long ago. I also like the voluntary self-assessment for $. You may want to contact Richard Welty to assist in setting all this up. I bellieve he has done this for other forums.
DZ
We can't just add one more 'are you human' step to the registration or is that the software upgrade that is needed?
Greg, I'll donate $100.00 to the cause. This forum is worth it for me.
Start the paypal account, I'm already sending $100 to each of half dozen other forums. What's one more? Then you're down to needing $900.
Thanks for the support. I won't open an account just yet, as I want to investigate options. Your public declarations of support are useful in that regard. If I choose to go that way I'll let you know. - GA
I'm in, for both the upgrade and the management change. I would also hope, considering we have 300+ real members who have been active within the past 6 months, that we could get 20-30 willing to pitch in; that would get the per capita contribution down to a more reasonable (I know - subjective...) $50 or so. I'm good for up to $100 though.
Greg: I'm in for donation.
Also, I'm a domain registrar/reseller and would be happy to take care of the domain fees.
-j
I'm in as well to support such an valuable tool for the IT community. Plus, you just can't put a price on this kind of entertainment.
Ikke over brunmulberry vesker Ikke over brun.
K
I could easily fire up another Improved Touring forum using VB, but we would not have all of this content without the current owner's blessing.
I'm in Greg.