Spam

[Xiagan]

You may have noticed the spam bots got out of control. I removed over 30 spam posts 4 hours ago and did another 40 in the last 4 hours.
Since I can't be here 24/7, it's only normal that you may find various amounts of spam while visiting.

I hope a software update or something similar will happen soon - until then thank you for your understanding.

[Xiagan]

There are 89 spam posts at the moment and I don't have the time to delete them - to be honest, I don't have the motivation either, because without a forum update it will look the same tomorrow and the day after and ... well, I'm not Sisyphus.

So please understand that I won't delete spam posts anymore without seeing some activity from our admins.

[Alphasoldier]

More than understandable Xiagan.
Not to hammer onto Alec, but I don't see why he can't do it. Though besides that, I'm not even close to fathoming why Derek hasn't already put in some kind of spam bot measurement.

[Xiagan]

Alec is deleting as much as I am, it was still not enough.

I talked with both and apparently the setting was set to 'immediate registration' which Derek changed, so it's supposed to be better now!
The spam bots who are still posting had already registered, so a ban should solve that problem too, so I'm looking quite forward to a new mostly spam free area!

[Alec]

I was deleting oodles of spam like twice a week.

But yeah, things should be less crazy now. I banned those 3 accounts you linked me to, Xia.

[Aristobulus]

Man this is a very nice thing to hear, those spam bots were really depressing.

[GMMan]

How about a question on the registration forum that Aquaria players should know the answer to? I first saw it on the BZFlag forums. It should be something extremely simple, though spambots wouldn't be able to answer without their users to find out the answer first.

[Alphasoldier]

From what I gather only Derek can do it, be it permissions, owner rights, knowledge (which I doubt) or some other weird things. I appreciate the banning's, but still wonder why you can't put up some simple spambot protection with the registration.

[Zoko]

Unfortunately from the looks of things the setting change didnt help matters much.

[Xiagan]

Unfortunately from the looks of things the setting change didnt help matters much.

I checked them and we are mostly dealing with spam bots who registered before the changes and are posting again.
It may need a time to ban them all, but we are on a good way I think.

[Derek]

Hey, guys, sorry about the spam!

I upgraded our forums to the latest version, which should help quite a bit.

Also, admins - if you delete a spam account you have the option to delete all of their posts with it. FYI.

[Aristobulus]

Sounds like progress is finally being made on this, really glad to hear it. Thanks for the effort guys.

[Alphasoldier]

Maybe it's an idea to bring around another admin, if even this post is being littered. xD

And thanks Derek!

[Align]

Yaaaaay!

[Aristobulus]

Xiagan's gonna have a stroke when he checks this place after taking a break for the holidays :V