Why are other people allowed to harass me, assault me, pick on me, call me names, bully me, laugh at me, and threaten me? If I decide to confront them and speak up about it they just do it more and if I do the same thing to them as they are doing to me I get arrested and charged with some bullshit crime.
You think you all got it bad? At least you're allowed to do all that shit I listed.
* Flood control: This forces users to wait for a short interval between making posts to the forum, thus preventing spambots from flooding the forum with repeated spam messages.
* Registration control:
o Some forums employ CAPTCHA (visual confirmation) routines on their registration pages to prevent spambots carrying out automated registrations. Simple CAPTCHA systems which display alphanumeric characters have proven vulnerable to optical character recognition software but those that scramble the characters appear to be far more effective.
o Alternative is Textual Confirmation, promoted by bbAntiSpam: user should answer a random question to prove he/she isn't a spambot. Many people consider this method controversial, but it's one of the best spam protection methods for phpBB2.
* Authorative voice: Using an external filtering service, such as Akismet, to get a verdict if the data is spam or not.
* Posting limits: Limit posting to registered users and/or require that the user pass a CAPTCHA test before posting.
* Registration restrictions: Applying careful restrictions can seriously impact bogus and spambot registrations. One approach consists in the denial of registration from certain domain extensions that are a major source of spambots such .ru, .br, .biz, or freebase addresses such as "gawab.com". Another, more labor-intensive, consists in manual examination of new registrants. This examination looks at several indicators. First, spambots often delay email confirmation by several hours, while humans will confirm promptly. Second, spambots will tend to create user names that are unique, and unlikely to already be used in the forum, preferring "John84731" or "JohnbassKeepsie" to the much more common "John." Third, using a search engine to investigate, one finds hundreds, if not thousands of profiles using the spambot login name, sometimes with the diagnostic spam post, or "banned" label.
* Changing technical details of the forum software to confuse bots - for example, changing "agreed=true" to "mode=agreed" in the registration page of phpBB.
* Block posts or registrations that contain certain blacklisted words.
* Be wary of IPs used by untrusted posters (anonymous posts or newly registered users). A useful technique for proactive detection of well-known spammer proxies is to query a search engine for this IP. It will show up on pages that specialize in the listing of proxies.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 13:07
Spam prevention
* Flood control: This forces users to wait for a short interval between making posts to the forum, thus preventing spambots from flooding the forum with repeated spam messages.
* Registration control:
o Some forums employ CAPTCHA (visual confirmation) routines on their registration pages to prevent spambots carrying out automated registrations. Simple CAPTCHA systems which display alphanumeric characters have proven vulnerable to optical character recognition software but those that scramble the characters appear to be far more effective.
o Alternative is Textual Confirmation, promoted by bbAntiSpam: user should answer a random question to prove he/she isn't a spambot. Many people consider this method controversial, but it's one of the best spam protection methods for phpBB2.
* Authorative voice: Using an external filtering service, such as Akismet, to get a verdict if the data is spam or not.
* Posting limits: Limit posting to registered users and/or require that the user pass a CAPTCHA test before posting.
* Registration restrictions: Applying careful restrictions can seriously impact bogus and spambot registrations. One approach consists in the denial of registration from certain domain extensions that are a major source of spambots such .ru, .br, .biz, or freebase addresses such as "gawab.com". Another, more labor-intensive, consists in manual examination of new registrants. This examination looks at several indicators. First, spambots often delay email confirmation by several hours, while humans will confirm promptly. Second, spambots will tend to create user names that are unique, and unlikely to already be used in the forum, preferring "John84731" or "JohnbassKeepsie" to the much more common "John." Third, using a search engine to investigate, one finds hundreds, if not thousands of profiles using the spambot login name, sometimes with the diagnostic spam post, or "banned" label.
* Changing technical details of the forum software to confuse bots - for example, changing "agreed=true" to "mode=agreed" in the registration page of phpBB.
* Block posts or registrations that contain certain blacklisted words.
* Be wary of IPs used by untrusted posters (anonymous posts or newly registered users). A useful technique for proactive detection of well-known spammer proxies is to query a search engine for this IP. It will show up on pages that specialize in the listing of proxies.