[Scummvm-devel] We need to upgrade our forums

[Filippos Karapetis]

Also, there are advanced blocking / spam filtering modules for phpBB3,
which are IMHO the best solution for this:

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/modifications/anti-spam-9/

most notable is this one:
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/advanced_block_mod/


On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Filippos Karapetis <bluegr at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't find it nice that this textual confirmation has been added without
> some sort of vote. It's ineffective, and blocks legitimate users from
> registering. Please, remove it, we need something that won't prevent people
> from registering. Once human spammers find out about this secret keyword,
> they'll just redistribute it among them. So, IMHO, this isn't a viable
> solution.
>
> phpBB has informational pages concerning spammers - they're worth reading:
> https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2122696
> https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/advanced_block_mod/faq/f_548
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Arnaud Boutonné <strangerke at scummvm.org>wrote:
>
>> Indeed, I just removed some more spammer accounts.
>>
>> Concerning this new plan, I agree with Filippos: asking for real user to
>> first connect to IRC and say 'hi' is too much IMHO.
>> At least we have almost no more spam in the forum now we (temporarily)
>> switched to manual confirmation, it's better than nothing :)
>>
>> See you
>> Arnaud
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Eugene Sandulenko <sev.mail at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On 27 December 2013 12:42, D G Turner <d.g.turner at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>   ANYWAY, a new interim plan to prevent spammers, specifically the bots.
>>>>
>>>>   I am going to change the Textual Confirmation question into a request
>>>>   for new users to join the IRC channel and ask for "The Password of the
>>>>   Day" which we can change as regularly as we want, but say daily.
>>>
>>>
>>> If it is in operation already then it has no effect. The bots keep
>>> registering.
>>>
>>>
>>> Eugene
>>>
>>>
>>
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