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TFF Central => Announcements => Topic started by: WingedZephyr on January 15, 2011, 11:18:38 PM
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Although some of you may not have been able to tell so far, the forum has had a flood of spam accounts being created lately. Many of them displaying advertising links, and some posting spam around the forum. The staff does its best to clean up these issues, but we feel some added precautions need to be put into place at the moment while we deal with the situation.
New members will now need to receive staff approval before they are allowed to post. Approval should not take more than 24 hours, and depending on the time of day, may take less than an hour. We hope this to be a temporary solution while we work out another way to keep the spammers at bay.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we'll let you know if anything changes.
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Oh thank God. I love this.
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*Does a tap dance* YESSSS!
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I approve this message a million times!
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Awesome, thanks guys.
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thanks for the heads up if i see any spam report it still?
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finally, SOME kind of action.
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finally, SOME kind of action.
how bad has it been?
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finally, SOME kind of action.
how bad has it been?
very
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I'll emphasize that Shinzuu didn't mean that in a disrespectful way, meaning he didn't mean it in a way that said we hadn't been doing anything before.
And yes, icy wolf, you still need to report any spam that gets through.
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It hasn't been anything we can't handle, just not something we want to see continue on for much longer if we can avoid it. There were very few actual posts made by the spammers before we caught them, most of the work has just been catching their accounts. Not only that, but we've only been fussing with it for a week or two. It's not like this has gone on for months.
Requiring approval for new members is not an ideal solution, as it can be a hassle for those trying to join, but it's the best solution at the moment.
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At least we're not putting up with that bullshit from 2 years ago. Remember the douche that posted a ton of crazy pics and making a 15-page spam say "fag" over and over again? I hated that day.
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I'd rather not start a discussion about trollings in the past.
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k ill report any spam i see
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As a result of the rejections I have been able to conduct research and found that many of those spam accounts registering are in fact already reported in a "Stop Forum Spam" database.
As a result forum registrations are now enabled for immediate registration and all registrations are checked against this database and flagged if they match. This should hopefully cut down on the spam accounts with no interaction from the staff. Any that do slip past can be reported to the database and aid other forum administrators in battling their own spam.
Should too many accounts get through we will once again raise the registration checks but hopefully this latest addition will stop the majority.
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As a result of the rejections I have been able to conduct research and found that many of those spam accounts registering are in fact already reported in a "Stop Forum Spam" database.
As a result forum registrations are now enabled for immediate registration and all registrations are checked against this database and flagged if they match. This should hopefully cut down on the spam accounts with no interaction from the staff. Any that do slip past can be reported to the database and aid other forum administrators in battling their own spam.
Should too many accounts get through we will once again raise the registration checks but hopefully this latest addition will stop the majority.
Good to know. just wondering how many account where spam :? and can i get that link for the data base, so i can report them.
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We deterred about 40 spam accounts in the three days the member approval system was in place. And you don't need to use the database to report them, icy... Any spam accounts that slip through, report them to staff here, and the staff will add them to the database.
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tweak to the rescue..once again. he should have his own tv show by now...
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^
Seriously though, I'd watch it.
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definitely, it would be a cavalcade of fun
baaaaaack on topic!
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well some of the spam ive seen is very bad ( have seen it else where) . i dont want any pups to see that. so thats why iam concerned about the spam here.
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There's not much to be worried about. We're often very good about removing spam quickly.
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ok thats good :)
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Since implementation of the new system we've blocked nearly 500 spammers.
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Hooray! thanks for helping keep our forums free of spam!
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wow that many spammers. good thing we have good mods here to block them. :)
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Aye, you guys are doing good.
Keep up the good work!
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More than 500 spammers now. :P
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seriously :? its a good thing tweak changed the registration.
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That is kind of my job, to keep everything running smoothly. Heavily under-appreciated and rarely understood but my job nonetheless.
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I appreciate you! :)
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That is kind of my job, to keep everything running smoothly. Heavily under-appreciated and rarely understood but my job nonetheless.
if you think people don't appreciate what you have done here, i appreciate your work.
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That is kind of my job, to keep everything running smoothly. Heavily under-appreciated and rarely understood but my job nonetheless.
I appreciate you Tweak. :3 <3
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That is kind of my job, to keep everything running smoothly. Heavily under-appreciated and rarely understood but my job nonetheless.
I also appreciate you Tweak.
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*pretends to be a moderator*
Please get back on top...
Nah, your the best admin I've ever seen Tweak, really!
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Pretending to be one and using the color I usually use, no less. :P
Anyways, I will admit that I swayed this into sort of off-topic, so I'll bring it back.
I'm glad you did the registration change. It makes things a lot easier not having to go through everyone who signs up and ban all these spammers (though I know they still end up having to get rid of, but it's a quicker way).
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well even with the registration change, you can still come here as a "guest" and spam that way cant you?.
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Nope. Guests can't post in anything. Even in the Who's Online thing if it says that a Guest is posting, they can't actually put it through.
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FYI - we've now blocked nearly 700 spammers!
I also find it amusing that I usually only get appreciation AFTER I've complained :P
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Any appreciation is better than no appreciation I suppose
now that ya mention it, keep up the good work! XD
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I also find it amusing that I usually only get appreciation AFTER I've complained :P
Maybe it's just because we appreciate your complaints as well. :P
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I appreciate you all the time, Tweak. :) Guess I should just say it more so that you can't complain. :P
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just because no on says it doesn't mean that we don't....
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Over 1000 now and they keep coming!
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Thanks Tweak for helping keep our forums safe!
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gee over 1000? people need to stop trolling
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Spammers not trolls..
And it's likely that the majority are automated anyway.
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oh so those accounts just posted a bunch of adds ?
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Well, no. They would but they don't even get past the registration because of this system.
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oh cool, thanks for changing it :)