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RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Raigeko13 - Aug. 05, 2011
I've been noticing a lot of habits between these spam bots. Firstly, they have odd names. Now don't get me wrong, there are some odd names here, but these are distinctly different. Example: http://worldbeyblade.org/User-Vagogreemia
MOST of the bots that I have seen, their birth age on their profile has been at 22 years of age, DOB 1/1/1989. I think that if there was a way to filter out some of these generic profiles, we could avoid a few spam bots. That being said, that still poses a problem to people who would actually have been born on that day, however that's still a 1 in a thousand chance of someone signing up that' was actually born that day on that year
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Kai-V - Aug. 05, 2011
A lot of them actually are "23 years old", based on what they write in their profile. I do not think the birthdate is similar either.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Sparta - Aug. 08, 2011
Huh, this is interesting. For some reason, I seem to be the only one that has yet to have seen even 1. (Possibly because I spend all of my time in the "Your Creations" forum?
I really like the quiz idea, especially the one about a spinning top. It works because people who are actually signing up would know what it is (Why else would they sign up?), while bots would just guess. Still, depending on how many possibilities there are, they could get lucky. Maybe 2 questions just to be safe...
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - To - Aug. 09, 2011
I have a possible bad scenario for the quiz:
How do you spell Beyblade?
"Battle Strikers"
I kid, everyone would know that, unless English wasn't their primary language.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Temporal - Aug. 09, 2011
...I was JUST going to post that, but I figured I'd be warned, seeing as it could be seen as sarcastic.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Captain Caprii - Aug. 09, 2011
(Aug. 09, 2011 1:12 AM)To Wrote: I have a possible bad scenario for the quiz:
How do you spell Beyblade?
"Battle Strikers"
I kid, everyone would know that, unless English wasn't their primary language.
Seems a bit to easy o.0 if they are humans (i think kai-v said that could be wrong tho)They could just look at the question
then go on with there botting or w.e they do to waste there lives
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Grovyle32 - Aug. 10, 2011
Thanks for posting this Heart.
I have seen this on soooooooo many sites... Do you think a plugin might become available that blocks out spiders and bots? (NO THIS IS A REAL POST. NO SARCASM INTENDED)
You should see BA if it comes back up... Raykon just seemed to disappear and the place is overcrowded with spiders and bots o_0
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Kai-V - Aug. 11, 2011
Unless that is what you call "spiders", a lot of our current SPAMmers are really not bots. One of them has been seen coming back online almost everyday even if they are banned. A real bot SPAMs once and leaves.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Ultimatefry - Aug. 24, 2011
I just helped eliminate that mikel11 guy. Doing those annoying SPAM sales threads all over the boards.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Deikailo - Aug. 24, 2011
(Aug. 24, 2011 12:11 AM)Ultimatefry Wrote: I just helped eliminate that mikel11 guy. Doing those annoying SPAM sales threads all over the boards.
(Jul. 27, 2011 7:10 PM)♥ Wrote: If you come across one of these, please report it, and do not post in the thread, there is literally no point in doing so - you are only making matters worse by bumping the thread.Of course, you replied to the thread, why as Heart pointed out, was just making it worse.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - RAW - Aug. 24, 2011
Things just got interesting, first one to report 50 spam threads win!
Jke jke (Not jking)
I haven't seen any recently but it may get worse if it isn't sortted quick enough. If only there was a thing like....If a thread has over 10 reports in a hour it gets automatically closed for a mod to review it later?
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - RowDog - Sep. 13, 2011
I have seen a massive uprising of these lately. They have been the thing I've reported most. Reported one today. Hope we can find a better way to stop this.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Ultimatefry - Sep. 13, 2011
(Sep. 13, 2011 9:56 AM)RowDog Wrote: I have seen a massive uprising of these lately. They have been the thing I've reported most. Reported one today. Hope we can find a better way to stop this.
Yeah, I've done so on here and on ROBLOX a lot.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - OneWingedAngel - Oct. 06, 2011
BUMP
Actually, I'm on board with the 2 question registration thing. I mean, it's on another forum I use, so why not here? We could even provide a hint
EXAMPLE:
What is MFB's main character? HINT: His bey's a Pegasus
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What is the main character's best FEMALE friend? HINT: She has a portable computer and goggles.
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And if they can't figure it out, people would have the brains to look it up.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - JCx06 - Oct. 06, 2011
I checked out the user Kai-V pointed out (Vagogreema) , his website is this: http://more-proxies.com/proxy-types/
Kinda seems suspicious. I can't really understand it, but it looks suspicious. Maybe there are other users out there from that Proxy site.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - TakasuMouce - Oct. 09, 2011
A proxxy helps you prevent others from seeing your IP address. But yes, it does seem pretty spuciusos.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - ultimateswiftie - Jan. 08, 2012
I just found a spam bot that posted its ad in almost all of the forums.
reported it.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Hazel - Jan. 09, 2012
You do not need to post here when you see them. Just report it and move on.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - apple1075 - Jan. 30, 2012
Saw a thread advertising stolen credit cards yesterday by a guy called soloution, i have never seen this thread so i posted on his thread asking him why he was advertising his 'services' on the WBO, sorry
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - sarabscientist - Apr. 11, 2012
You guys can have a generic question to filter out human bots.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Hazel - Apr. 11, 2012
A lot of our "spam bots" now are not bots, but actual people who sign up and post the same messages. So, a generic question would not be helpful at all.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - sarabscientist - Apr. 12, 2012
Eh, okay.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Hazel - Apr. 12, 2012
Proxies and simply people from literally different addresses counteract the absolute effectiveness of IP banning - and yes, we do have methods for searching, matching, banning, suspending, etc. IP addresses, both by post and original registration IP.
The fact is that Spambots aren't really a big problem for us, because we do have things set up to counteract them - we get maybe five in a week, and given how massive this forum is, that is pretty good. That they're generally gone before they can do anything outside of one or two posts that are typically immediately reported is nothing to think slight of, either.
Please do not make arguments under the assumption that this forum is some garbage freeforum being run by people without any idea of how anything works.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Kai-V - Apr. 12, 2012
Also, I judged that the situation had calmed down enough to remove the obligatory activation by email, in order to now avoid all the problems that had caused with Gmail accounts that never received our activation email. The situation has really not worsened since I have done that.
RE: SPAM Bots. [READ THIS] - Sniper - Apr. 17, 2012
Lately whenever i tried clicking on a "last post" or an actual thread on the Recent Post section of the index page it sends me back as if i just refreshed the page
