[Scummvm-devel] "Intelligent" forum spam bots

[Filippos Karapetis]

Well, most modern forum software has captcha images during registration, which stops some of these bots somewhat. Other forums have custom questions like "If you are a human, please type how much 1+1 are" (to avoid captcha reading software).

I believe that the newer versions of phpBB do have captcha images during registration, so we should upgrade our forum version. I've dealt with phpBB and vBulletin in the past, so I could do this at some point, if noone else wants to undertake the task

Regards
Filippos

> From: max at quendi.de
> To: scummvm-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:52:06 +0200
> Subject: [Scummvm-devel] "Intelligent" forum spam bots
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> recently we got more and more successful spammers "coming thru".  
> Worse, some seem to be semi-intelligent. To the degree that I start to  
> be uncertain who is and who isn't a spammer. See e.g. this guy:
> 
>    <http://forums.scummvm.org/search.php?search_author=deanhanson>
> 
> What he says makes *some* sense and is connected to the thread it is  
> posted in, although it is rather off-topic. Of course many humans act  
> just like that, so....
> 
> I wonder how we should deal with such people. PM them privately to  
> test if they are bots? And of course we'd want all moderators to be  
> aware of how to deal with this all...
> 
> Also, I wonder if there are better forum protection measures we could  
> implement. Of course, our forum is rather unmaintained as it is  
> (running on a software, phpBB 2, that hasn't been further developed  
> for quite some time now). Maybe we need to switch to yet another  
> discussion board software (and find an admin for that) ?
> 
> Bye,
> Max
> 
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