Forum seems to have been raped!

[Fireball]

Chris - what's happened!?! Bad times.

[cozmeister]

 Thanks for the Heads Up, but the "Report to Moderator" button would've been more helpful lol

[Fireball]

Thanks for the Heads Up, but the "Report to Moderator" button would've been more helpful lol

Prehaps lock off new sign ups for a while?

[cozmeister]

Would you believe that approximately 20 new spam accounts are created each day...?

[Fireball]

Would you believe that approximately 20 new spam accounts are created each day...?

holy crap. THat;s nuts. WHY!!??? I just just dont get the point

[Fireball]

Good job on the clean up BTW 

[cozmeister]

The ban filters sadly aren't especially flexible, so I have to draw a fine line between banning the entire internet and allowing the genuine ones to go through.

Either way, I get an email EVERY time there's a new registration and keeping up can be a bit of a mission.

[Emma]

How Ironic 

[cozmeister]

Anyone else want access to the "Delete Post" button?

[cozmeister]

You two may appreciate this: I found a handy website that will give you ALL the subnets for a given country, see www.countryipblocks.net.  Choose a country, click GO and you'll have every subnet you'll ever need to ban.

Problem is, China (the main offender, along with Poland, Latvia, and Russia) has over 3000 subnets.  Here's the summary of what that website has to offer for China:

# Country: CHINA
# ISO Code: CN
# Total Networks: 3,412
# Total Subnets:  331,822,336

I'm not entering over 3000 IP ranges into the ban list, so if anyone would like access to the Ban and Delete Post button and can spare a few minutes a day to just have a look, that'd be great. 

[Fireball]

You two may appreciate this: I found a handy website that will give you ALL the subnets for a given country, see www.countryipblocks.net.  Choose a country, click GO and you'll have every subnet you'll ever need to ban.

Problem is, China (the main offender, along with Poland, Latvia, and Russia) has over 3000 subnets.  Here's the summary of what that website has to offer for China:

# Country: CHINA
# ISO Code: CN
# Total Networks: 3,412
# Total Subnets:  331,822,336

I'm not entering over 3000 IP ranges into the ban list, so if anyone would like access to the Ban and Delete Post button and can spare a few minutes a day to just have a look, that'd be great. 

Can you get a list or range from a web site then just enter it into a config file somewhere? COpy and paste job.....

[cozmeister]

Yes, that site gives you the ENTIRE list of subnets.  The forum software however isn't as flexible as that, as in, I can't block subnets that aren't a multiple of 8, ie, I can do /32 /24 /16 or /8, but can't do /19 /26 /15 etc.

[rstaaron]

Can I have access to the ban/delete button? 

[cozmeister]

Can I have access to the ban/delete button? 

Hmmmm...... lol

[Fireball]

Can you edit the registration Screen? The quickest way to fix this would be to put a hidden field on the reg screen. If the hidden field is entered into, it's a bot, because no human can see or use the field.

But that all depends on whether you can edit the PHP

[cozmeister]

But that all depends on whether you can edit the PHP

And then remember to replace the mod at update time.

[Fireball]

LOCK IT DOWN CHRIS!!! Just turn off registration, fack any new members. How often do we really get em?!?

bastard spam bots

[cozmeister]

To be honest the bots post more on the forum than our own members do, so I might just let them run riot. :s

[Fireball]

To be honest the bots post more on the forum than our own members do, so I might just let them run riot. :s

ha ha, good point