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
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.
Houston Region
STU Nissan 240SX
EProd RX7
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.
Houston Region
STU Nissan 240SX
EProd RX7
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
T
Glenn Lawton
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#14 ITS RX7
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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.
David Plott
Atlanta Region #289721
#54 1973 Datsun 240Z
Mount Juliet, TN
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
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.
Ed Funk
NER ITA CRX, ITB Civic, ITC CRX (wanna buy a Honda?)
Smart as a horse, hung like Einstein!
Good news/bad news.
Good news: Mr IT.COM and I have exchanged some emails, and on my request he has disabled new user registrations on the forum. We were getting around two dozen new accounts per day, all spammers. This will allow us to catch up with all the pending accounts that are coming back soon to spam, and eventually get ahead.
Further, he is going to investigate existing anti-spam options on the current version of the VBulletin software.
Bad news: Mr IT.COM has disabled all new user registrations. Not optimal, but maybe we'll re-enable when we get a handle on those anti-spam options.
News to follow as I get it.
- GA
thanks tGA
Demetrius Mossaidis aka 'Mickey' #12 ITA NESCCA
'92 Honda Civic Si
STFU and "Then write a letter. www.crbscca.com"
2013 ITA NARRC Champion and I have not raced since.
Is there any way to ban members in mass? Just doing a search of members who have joined since 11/1 gives about 130 results; most of those have zero posts. Going back to 9/1 takes it to 1k+ members, again mostly non-posting. Some appear to be legit, but many appear to be computer generated. Too many to ban one at a time for sure.
Earl R.
240SX
ITA/ST5
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