Bots

[beef.Cake²]

Just deleted about 10 bots that had posted topics and posts, and numerous inactive accounts that had never posted or had been moderated but not deleted. We've been getting a lot recently, was quiet after the initial upgrade to phpbb3 then they come in waves like this morning.

Have updated the forums to the latest version, which claims to have better captcha options, I had already changed visual confirmation options anyway. You can make it harder for bots, but this makes it harder for new signups too which is annoying.

We're already on user verification so they have to use valid email addresses, but there are sites that let you set up 10 minute email accounts so that's pretty useless these days too. Don't really want to push for admin verification as that will cause an unnecessary delay for real users.

[mada98]

good job i deleted a few of the msgs but i dont have access to most places and as you said its easier to just delete the users lol

[mada98]

erm your update didnt seem to work

[KAMIKAZEE]

Yahoo and MSN BOTs on as we speak.
Startin to get paranoid now are these motherfuckers folling me around

[beef.Cake²]

Wrong sort of bots Those ones read threads to cache searches on their relevant engines. We just want to get rid of the ones that sign up and post crap.

[mada98]

lol would be ammusing if the msn bot started posting msgs but that were actually meaningful some sort of insane AI skynet!

[CSS-REG]

OH THE IRONY - ROFL!

[NATAS.k]

OH THE IRONY - ROFL!

ROFLMAO!!!

[beef.Cake²]

Upped again.