Robots.txt

[Firefox]

All we are is dust in the wind, dude.

[moosedude]

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DUST


WIND


DUDE

[Alarm]

We're just humans surrounded by bots in spam-world, my friends.

[disciple]

And we've had a marked increase in spammers.

Great!

Arse, any idea if they're human or bot spammers?

Is it possible to stick a second captcha in? Or swap the one out we have, it's really un-user-friendly anyway.

How about an ip blocklist, probably adding in the bogon and Hijacked lists from here http://blocklistpro.com/faqs/biss-ip-bl ... s-faq.html. If you chuck us the ip addresses of some of these spammers I'll check if they would have been blocked if you want.

Or possibly think about bringing the board up to the current version 3.0.6, that appears to have lots of new spam prevention facilities in there, that would also probably patch some security holes and "add value" via new board features. It also has the benefit of keeping things standard which sidesteps Rik's issues. Never done an upgrade myself though so dunno how tricky it is.

Maybe add in some custom profile fields: http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/custom- ... mmer-tool/ an easy implementation might be a simple dropdown box where the default value doesn't allow registration or a blank text field were the user has to type "I am not a cunting spambot"

How do they find the registration link? Is it directly or do they hop around a few yakyak urls first. If direct maybe make so it can only be accessed if the referrer is yakyak.org? Or possibly masquerade the URL to something non-standard via rewrites so it can only be found via button click rather than direct url access?

[Darkflame]

custom profile fields worked wonders when I had a spam problem.
Piss-easy to get around, but only if they specifically target your forum.

[gravy]

And we've had a marked increase in spammers.

Great!

Arse, any idea if they're human or bot spammers?

Is it possible to stick a second captcha in? Or swap the one out we have, it's really un-user-friendly anyway.

How about an ip blocklist, probably adding in the bogon and Hijacked lists from here http://blocklistpro.com/faqs/biss-ip-bl ... s-faq.html. If you chuck us the ip addresses of some of these spammers I'll check if they would have been blocked if you want.

Or possibly think about bringing the board up to the current version 3.0.6, that appears to have lots of new spam prevention facilities in there, that would also probably patch some security holes and "add value" via new board features. It also has the benefit of keeping things standard which sidesteps Rik's issues. Never done an upgrade myself though so dunno how tricky it is.

Maybe add in some custom profile fields: http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/custom- ... mmer-tool/ an easy implementation might be a simple dropdown box where the default value doesn't allow registration or a blank text field were the user has to type "I am not a cunting spambot"

How do they find the registration link? Is it directly or do they hop around a few yakyak urls first. If direct maybe make so it can only be accessed if the referrer is yakyak.org? Or possibly masquerade the URL to something non-standard via rewrites so it can only be found via button click rather than direct url access?

Upgraded. This version has Q&A captcha now so we can add some questions which may well help.

The other option is to ban registrations with a gmail address, every single spammer has come in via gmail

As for the other stuff, try it out on your own install

[Jedburgh]

To be precise, *most* spammers are coming in from gmail addresses. Any other domains get block-banned as a rule. Had a rash of AOLs the other day so that's gone again.

Any and all captcha questions gratefully received.

[disciple]

Upgraded.

Bloomin' marvellous.

Definitely worth doin' I reckon. Not sure what new features there are but that captcha certainly looks a lot better than the last.

Any and all captcha questions gratefully received.

Are you a cunting spambot? Answer yes or no.

What colour is an orange?

What letter's to the left of w on a qwerty keyboard?

2 plus 2=?

[Darkflame]

I dought YakYak will be specifically targeted, so any single non-standard question field will probably do.

Also, banning any public/free email from registering is effectively telling 90% of legitimate people to fuck-off too. Its a very blunt tool.

[adam]

i think someone did an authentication page where you had to click pics of kittens in sequence, could possibly do something similar

[disciple]

Searches engines are blocked again aren't they?

Any chance we could sort it out? New joins have been gradually dropping since mid 2007 and are now pretty much the lowest they've ever been.

Yakyak's dying a slow death and no-one really seems to give a fuck.

[OX mkII]

[disciple]

Sorry no idea, stick it in the youtube thread or something.

[OX mkII]

Sorry no idea, stick it in the youtube thread or something.

born yesterday?

[disciple]

Elucidate.