Added anti-spam bot measures...

Post by **Geesu** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:27 am

Hopefully will see less spam bots on here - Changed some code around to hopefully prevent the fuckers from spamming...

I'm getting pretty damn sick of having to delete bullshit stuff.

Hopefully they don't fuck w/the wiki anymore than they already have :/

Josh

mexykanu · Post by **mexykanu** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:22 am

why don't u ban the IPs ?

Post by **Geesu** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:57 pm

So if you had to choices:

a) Ban every spam bot IP
b) Prevent them from registering...

You would choose a?

Post by **YamiKaitou** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:07 pm

Then that would also mean that every time I delete a spam topic, I would have to tell Geesu the user of who posted. Why would we want to go through all that trouble when we could prevent them from registering, or at least most of them?

DesasterUK · Post by **DesasterUK** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:47 pm

There is another problem if u ban by IP.

German users get dynamic IPs, wich changes every time they connect to the internet.
If u ban a german user, maybe the next one will become his IP and can't get into the forum i think.

mexykanu · Post by **mexykanu** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:03 am

um... not only germany has dynamic IPs, u know.... anyway, i tought there were more admins/moderators that could ban the IPs; in this case the code changing is best.