mmmm spam on this forum

[Adam G.]

I removed 11 posts and don't have the rights to remove the Michelle Obama one. Is this a record for one day?

Pavel

[Adam G.]

Make that 14 posts removed!

Grrrrrrr

[victor]

I know, this is weird. I am deleting them almost hourly now and banning IPs left and right.
There are two types of spam - with link and without. With link, I made sure that links cannot be added if you are not a member, but non-link one, I have trouble identifying the keywords...

According to my stats the biggest spam is ...dog-related?!!!! Pavel - did you subscribe to some sort of canine bride magazine and used our site as a reference of character?

[victor]

What the hell!
Seriously, we are being spammed like crazy right now. I am not sure how to stop this since most of the spammers are not registering and I don't want to make it a REGISTER-ONLY forum.

What happened in the last week that caused such a spike? Pavel, Tony - who did you piss off?

[tony]

Funny you should ask... errr... I did piss off some Genesys guys, earlier in the week...

...they wouldn't - would they...?

[victor]

you never know, you never know... this is an incredible number of spam!!!
And what is worse, they are really persistent in cracking CAPTCHA! This is amazing!...

[victor]

Ok, I figured what is going on - these bastards were very smart - they have noticed that there is a way to brute-force the registration by just entering the numbers and then using back button - this way new digits are never generated and all you have to do is repeat the process until you register. Needless to say, this is pretty crude.

So, I fixed that part of the code 

So, now we are not going to have registered bots anymore. I hope. 

There is still a problem with bots putting really annoying one liners all over the place, so perhaps a captcha for unregistered users should take care of that as well. I am trying very hard to avoid this, though...

Well, let's see...

[Fra]

damn, they are getting smarter!
Go Vic, you are our hero, defeat them!! I'll send Cavagnaro to neuter them in the meanwhile 

[victor]

I think the problem is we DID send Cavagnaro to neuter them... But I think he ended up neutering a cute white poodle somewhere near Minsk, and now Pavel is on a war path... God help us!

[victor]

Ok! I think we got the worst of it!

[Fra]

[quote author=victor link=topic=3540.msg15127#msg15127 date=1226582146]
I think the problem is we DID send Cavagnaro to neuter them... But I think he ended up neutering a cute white poodle somewhere near Minsk, and now Pavel is on a war path... God help us!
[/quote]

Oooops!

[cavagnaro]

now that dogs are handled cats will be next 

[victor]

Hehehehe, it took me a while to realize that I was the cat!!!

[Adam G.]

[quote author=victor link=topic=3540.msg15172#msg15172 date=1226884161]
Hehehehe, it took me a while to realize that I was the cat!!!



[/quote]

I thought you were the teddy bear in the picture and the kitten was just coincidence?

[victor]

Ok, this is getting gay!