Spam problems on Snitz - is there a CAPTCHA system

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Spam problems on Snitz - is there a CAPTCHA system - Posted 02 Sep 2005 21:55 (816 Views)

Astralis

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I'm starting to get lots of spam on one of my forums. Only members can post so I don't know how they're getting through the membership system to be able to post spam like poker and gambling. These are clearly bots. I've seen some of the URL encoding that didn't work in the posts.
Any recommendations? Is there a CAPTCHA mod?<

Posted 03 Sep 2005 07:38

MarcelG

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Getting them from u-yep.com ? I've just released a mod that restricts registration from certain domains ; you might want to try that one.<

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Posted 03 Sep 2005 09:25

Astralis

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They're coming from everywhere on different domains that I have. I'm not sure an infinite number of rows will be enough to list all the domains to ban.<

Posted 03 Sep 2005 09:45

MarcelG

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The only CAPTCHA-like mod we've got is the Anti-Spam registration add on. It's not really captcha but still... By ~~Richard~~ RGund if I remember correctly:
http://www.snitzbitz.com/mods/details.asp?Version=All&mid=139<

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Posted 03 Sep 2005 09:48

AnonJr

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And you've enabled e-mail validation?
You might be able to get some help from here, here, here, and here.
In these and a few others there was mention of a MOD that makes the users enter the text contained in an image, and a few other tips tricks, et al. (IP Banning/including their domains as bad words/etc.)

Also, marcel's MOD might at least help cut down on some of the spam.<

Posted 03 Sep 2005 10:22

Astralis

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Thanks! I'll take a look at all the information.
I'm trying to avoid e-mail validation. It's a step that I do not like myself.<