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Forum Announcements [Public] / Re: Slamming the door on Spammers.
« Last post by Hopscotch on November 12, 2021, 02:37:46 AM »
We just moved to the big city and found the local library won't issue cards online unless you prove ID by submitting a verifiable credit card # thru a secure system.  U.S. Copyright Office does the same.  Is that too cumbersome an anti-spammer tool for WS? 
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Forum Announcements [Public] / Re: Slamming the door on Spammers.
« Last post by Eric Thomson on November 12, 2021, 12:37:03 AM »
Quote from: TimothyEllis on November 12, 2021, 12:33:01 AM
Quote from: Eric Thomson on November 12, 2021, 12:27:04 AM
Tim,
I've beaten the spammers by setting "Admin Approval" for new members. The spammers are easy to recognize - their email addies are garbage and when they bother with a domain name, so is that. I literally delete a dozen registrations awaiting approval each day before the spammers can even get to the point of posting. Here's a screenshot of the relevant panel in SMF.

I tried that, but with that turned on, they can't update their registration, so nothing wonky shows. You can only activate them, and then they update and post spam anyway. You can spot some of the email addresses, but not all.

Strange, but I have no problems. Every morning, I go to the members awaiting approval panel and delete the ones with wonky email addies, and after a while, you get to recognize them immediately. If by chance I reject a legitimate registration awaiting approval (hasn't happened since I set admin approval last spring) I figure the individual will contact me via other means. Saved me a lot of grief last summer when over sixty of the fake accounts congregated at the same time and tried to log in for whatever nefarious purposes. I can only imagine the mess that would have ensued.
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Forum Announcements [Public] / Re: Slamming the door on Spammers.
« Last post by TimothyEllis on November 12, 2021, 12:33:01 AM »
Quote from: Eric Thomson on November 12, 2021, 12:27:04 AM
Tim,
I've beaten the spammers by setting "Admin Approval" for new members. The spammers are easy to recognize - their email addies are garbage and when they bother with a domain name, so is that. I literally delete a dozen registrations awaiting approval each day before the spammers can even get to the point of posting. Here's a screenshot of the relevant panel in SMF.

I tried that, but with that turned on, they can't update their registration, so nothing wonky shows. You can only activate them, and then they update and post spam anyway. You can spot some of the email addresses, but not all.
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Forum Announcements [Public] / Re: Slamming the door on Spammers.
« Last post by Eric Thomson on November 12, 2021, 12:27:04 AM »
Tim,
I've beaten the spammers by setting "Admin Approval" for new members. The spammers are easy to recognize - their email addies are garbage and when they bother with a domain name, so is that. I literally delete a dozen registrations awaiting approval each day before the spammers can even get to the point of posting. Here's a screenshot of the relevant panel in SMF.
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Forum Announcements [Public] / Re: Slamming the door on Spammers.
« Last post by TimothyEllis on November 12, 2021, 12:23:48 AM »
I'll repeat it again for those who missed it.

If you get spam in your PM's, let me know immediately.

There is a class of spammer who looks innocent on their profile, never poss in public, but are here to post PM spam.

Tell me about them and they'll be history.

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Forum Announcements [Public] / Re: Let me know if you get unsolicited sales PMs
« Last post by She-la-te-da on November 12, 2021, 12:17:15 AM »
I got that one, too, Dusty. Hate spammers. :(
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Forum Announcements [Public] / Re: Slamming the door on Spammers.
« Last post by TimothyEllis on November 12, 2021, 12:14:13 AM »
Quote from: She-la-te-da on November 12, 2021, 12:09:43 AM
Hope you fix the issue. I just came in to catch up and had another spam thing. Could see no way to report it.

PM spam?

Copy it to me and tell me who sent it. I'll nuke them.
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Forum Announcements [Public] / Re: Slamming the door on Spammers.
« Last post by She-la-te-da on November 12, 2021, 12:09:43 AM »
Hope you fix the issue. I just came in to catch up and had another spam thing. Could see no way to report it.

Anyone lurking thinking I'll fall for your junk, I don't and won't. Been around the block far too many times to respond to spam, here or anywhere. LOL
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Forum Announcements [Public] / Re: Slamming the door on Spammers.
« Last post by TimothyEllis on November 12, 2021, 12:02:26 AM »
Quote from: Lynn on November 11, 2021, 11:53:56 PM
If someone is registering, they sold be willing to make at least one post to keep the registration. Why not edit the welcome message or success message to say that if there isn't at least one post within a day the registration will be deleted?

There are a lot of members who login to read, but have never posted.

Forcing them to post something isn't my first choice.

And besides, once spammers figure it out, they'll post something innocuous to start with, leave it a while, then post spam.

Ideally I'd like all new registrations to be on pre-moderation automatically, but I can't figure out how to do that. That way first posts would always only be seen by me until I okayed them. Might frustrate a few people who post just after I go to bed, and have to wait before they appear, but it wold keep the spam out.
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Forum Announcements [Public] / Re: Slamming the door on Spammers.
« Last post by Lynn on November 11, 2021, 11:53:56 PM »
If someone is registering, they sold be willing to make at least one post to keep the registration. Why not edit the welcome message or success message to say that if there isn't at least one post within a day the registration will be deleted?
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