Dang, everytime I update the list it looks more and more like the spammers' posts. Is there anything we can do to stop them besides deleting their posts/topics? Because they're finding a way to make all of these accounts. This has gotten way out of hand.

Matching sets are for girls...with cooties!

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#223

@ the looks like spam post part

. I've never seen it this bad

. I guess the first step is to just start banning those we have so far, because as long as they're only disabled and not banned, they can make new accounts over and over again without even changing email addresses I guess

. I'm not sure whether banning bans the IP or just the email, but if they're banned, the extra trouble it takes to make a new account is usually enough of a detourant to stop it from getting like it is now, but without that, a lot of the same ones are just re-registering multiple times a day.

MauiKane

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#224

^ I agree. Until something can figured out, a 2 pronged approach seems best. I know that several of us mods keep furiously deleting and disabling posting ability on a daily basis. But I am not sure if the second prong is as active .... administrators banning. Perhaps banning is going on without my knowledge. Would be great to get some reassurance from an administrator that it is.

Perhaps a temporary solution is to give Mods the ability to BAN spammers (vs. just deleting and disabling posting) as well. Just a thought.

I see the lies in your eyes and yet I love you just the same

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#225

Could someone ban Musstolla? I just binned a dog sex video post of his. Gross!

I see the lies in your eyes and yet I love you just the same

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#226

Suspended jenthecdn's posting abilities for five days for spamming. Might want to ban him as well.

The Knight of Goulart

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#227

Sorry I was MIA for 2 days, terribly sick. But look at what a gift i got on my return. a slew of new spammers. What Fun! - yes, sarcasm.

Anyway, here's two more for ban:

ictretetee, adultgirl

Dont you know im loco

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#228

Wonder what is going on, guess they fuond out how to crack recaptcha or something. I shall try to accelerate the IPB3.1 migration as that has a community spam ban feature where if they find IPs/spammers in another community that uses IPB it auto bans in ours as well and has a question/answer part for registration which prevents bots from signing up (well anything is better then nothing i suppose.)

Dont you know im loco

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#229

Found it. Sure enough google recaptcha has been cracked

A few days back in vbulletin

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread....at-It?p=2099123

And from IPB itself :S

We thought everyone might find a few statistics from our Spam Monitoring Service interesting. Since the rate of spam registrations has greatly increased since the first of the year we are of course seeing greater activity on the service.

All stats are since 1 January 2011 to 13 January 2011.

* The spam service has processed 300,000 requests and the rate is accelerating as more people are activating the service since spamming has increased over the last couple weeks.

* About 30% were marked as spam accounts and therefore prevented from registering on IP.Board's that use the service. This is of course a much higher percentage then even a few weeks prior to the influx of spam registrations.

* The service has "learned" from the activity and permanently black listed about 5000 emails and IP addresses.

* Of those the service blocked, about 10% were due to IP.Board administrators and moderator using the "flag as spam" feature which tells the service that an account is from a spammer. So keep reporting!

It's our hope that Google's reCAPTCHA service will soon be improved. In the mean time be sure to follow the tips in our announcement to prevent spam registrations.

We can never 100% stop spam but our Spam Monitoring Service is another tool to help prevent registrations from impacting your community. The service is a free IPS Extra for anyone with an active IP.Board license or IPS Community Hosting client.

The Knight of Goulart

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#230

Wow, great news maddog. nice to see there is an end in sight.

I could recommend maybe not all mods, but maybe a select few - SuperMods? idk - can have the ability to ban? So you and PC don't have to do it all.

BTW, 2 more expapeQuima, CasparStuart

Caspar was wierd, one post was a random model/actress bio

But then the next was some weird thing about morpher downloads and stuff. So i deleted his download post and am adding him to the list.

MauiKane

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#231

For excessive spamming suspended posting abilities indefinitely; recommend banishment

Cheetlepeap

paczkafioricetox1

Inachcakanofe

Dont you know im loco

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#232

Wow, great news maddog. nice to see there is an end in sight.
I could recommend maybe not all mods, but maybe a select few - SuperMods? idk - can have the ability to ban? So you and PC don't have to do it all.

BTW, 2 more expapeQuima, CasparStuart

Caspar was wierd, one post was a random model/actress bio

But then the next was some weird thing about morpher downloads and stuff. So i deleted his download post and am adding him to the list.

I feel so bad for being away for such a long time I feel like I have let BZ down, but i am back and hopefully we can get all these little issues taken care of.

I have no problem promoting some mods to admins as most of the admins are not around much anymore. Perhaps we should remove Capt Snow (last seen 2nd November 2008 - 12:18 AM) and Jimmy (29th August 2008 - 01:37 PM)?

From what I saw in the control panel I couldnt see anythign where I coudl give you the permissions you need without giving you admin privs. So any suggestions on who would like to be admins? Since its just Pinky, Ronin and I, probabaly the current mods can vote as well.

MauiKane

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#233

^ Good idea. I nominate Lady Fatale, SympathysSilhouette, and Joe>Average, to replace the inactive administrators.

MauiKane

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#234

FoR spamming suspended posting abilities indefinitely; recommend banishment

Lahbydayfap

CloullyAgetly

TokepichTip

paczkafioricetoxx2

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BRUNO SANTOS

The Knight of Goulart

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#235

Here's 3 more to ban. Cleaned from preexisting threads

Dausuarve, sponsShouro, ficdtekstys

The Knight of Goulart

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#236

and cleanceGaulge as well. more hidden spam in runway threads

The Knight of Goulart

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#237

jaworskijareczkos, silsdoupleZed, dfghdfre need ban.

Are we still using Lady's post as a list or were those already deleted?

MauiKane

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#238

MORE TO BAN:

ficdtekkuo

Steadepet

JisciliGobUseve

Smogygync

LiaithLox

aNuttyNaptak

Alexissss

ifromcand

ArnoldSlasin

Heiliagep

Lumpkine

The Knight of Goulart

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#239

More to ban:

TypeSesquebes

estidojemonse

Sivisaror

BolleyClize

(I'm gonna make this my ban list to edit and such)

VanTheroiezix

Mapedguard

~ Post Edited by Joe > Average

MauiKane

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#240

BAN THESE SPAMMERS:

Zenearrterge

aCoegremorece

Hourrydiund

hedio1

Fagogeown

lovegalinavol

Occatawet

directx

beetalk

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