Forum New Thread Captcha
Submitted: Wednesday, Jun 05, 2019 at 14:02
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ExplorOz - David & Michelle
Hi folks,
Been a while since I had 5 secs to post in the
forum, sorry about that but building our new map set and apps have consumed a fair wack of time. Anyway we have over recent weeks seen a large number of annoying spam threads appearing in the
forum so to try to circumvent this continuing I have added a simple Captcha/Validate control on the New Thread process.
We have used the most simple one that is just a tick box (unless you fail something and may have to get a few more questions). It should take no time at all to use and hopefully it will help our moderators by limiting the almost daily entry of spam threads.
Regards
David (doing the tick thing)
Reply By: Michael H9 - Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 18:58
Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 18:58
I think it's not working?
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Follow Up By: Frank P (NSW) - Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 19:32
Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 19:32
Not much info there, Michael. In what way?
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Follow Up By: Michael H9 - Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 20:27
Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 20:27
There was a spam post after it was put on only a few hours ago. Maybe it was done manually by the spammer?
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz Team - Michelle - Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 20:49
Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 20:49
The last few attempts we've had to stop them were designed to identify if its a bot or a human and we now can see its a human and I've just worked through the logs and we've identified a bit more about how they're doing it so now we have another approach and will implement a new protocol. Surely this is time consuming and waste of time for them. Sure is waste of time for us...
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Follow Up By: Idler Chris - Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 21:06
Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 21:06
Hi Michelle, I would not waste much time on it. I, and I am sure others do too, just advise the moderators and they take it down. A fairly simple solution. It does not stay up long so I doubt the perpetrators receive any benefit.
If you want to do a change I would suggest you could make it so a financial member (or anyone maybe) can flag any posting as advertising which immediately hides the post from the
Forum and refers it to a moderator for total deletion or reinstatement. This will diminish the time the post is up and act as a deterant.
Chris
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Follow Up By: Michael H9 - Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 21:08
Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 21:08
I spend my working day standing under a waterfall of internet problems caused by malicious spamming and scamming scripts. I feel your pain.... :-)
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Follow Up By: Ron N - Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 22:11
Thursday, Jun 06, 2019 at 22:11
As a moderator of another
forum, with worldwide members, I can tell you this much - having multiple moderators in many different areas of the world, on different time zones - all with the ability to remove spam, the instant they spot it - is a guaranteed, sure-fire method of making spammers get very discouraged - and they then move on to other sites that have less webmaster or moderator interaction.
One of the things the spammers love, is when they put up a spam post, and it stays there for multiple hours and days.
I just love deleting spam within a minute of it appearing, it's a great feeling!
Cheers, Ron.
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Follow Up By: Kazza055 - Friday, Jun 07, 2019 at 10:18
Friday, Jun 07, 2019 at 10:18
Another way might be to disallow new members from posting for the first 7 days. Have seen this on quiet a few forums over the years.
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Friday, Jun 07, 2019 at 17:06
Friday, Jun 07, 2019 at 17:06
As much fun as pressing the delete button may be having to look,
check, look, delete a fair amount is time consuming and painful. I actually have much more fun working out what they did/do and building a method to clobber that activity. Lets see if they come back after today's update.
David
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz - David & Michelle - Friday, Jun 07, 2019 at 18:13
Friday, Jun 07, 2019 at 18:13
Hum - maybe, maybe not! Investigating....
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