Maniaplanet Forum

TheM wrote:Prevention has been proposed for quite some time and is planned, but doesn't seem to be a priority

as long as there are enough mods to delete the spam... they don't need to do anything

Just create a own captha, for example, type maniaplanet backwards. Since i changed the captha on our website to something simular (who is the clanfounder of LYNX); i never had any 1 bot who could register
i think 1 tiem a real life spammer who understood the question XD - and this was offcourse easaly undone

weerwolf wrote:Just create a own captha, for example, type maniaplanet backwards. Since i changed the captha on our website to something simular (who is the clanfounder of LYNX); i never had any 1 bot who could register
i think 1 tiem a real life spammer who understood the question XD - and this was offcourse easaly undone

I agree that adding a Q and A in the registration is a simple and effective solution which prevents a lot of Spam. We also had a lot of Spam in our forum and since we add a Q and A in our registration the Spam is gone.

Greetz,

I've changed the captcha for a quite simple question, we will see if it improve anything.

Finally! Thanks

Did you change it already before you posted your message here?
Because there were still new spammer registrations, e.g. GilbertBog from Burma, today 13:04
and Bernieoa from Japan
After that only 2 new members without details (could be spammers as well) joined, now its calm.
Let's see tomorrow again

Offcourse there still be human spammers, but effectively it should be a great improvement

Good news, thanks!

Luckily the amount of forumspam is heavily reduced.
Unfortunately its not 100%. I have allready seen some "high tech" forum spam about certain movies we should watch.

The Q and A is now the question: are you born before or after a certain date.
Both enters will lead to the registrationform, so perhaps a question where only 1 answer is possible will increase the succesrate of the q and a anti-forum spam.
Maybe something like Weerwolf suggested would be very sufficient and is able to increase the succesrate to 100%!

Good luck!

well, I would say the amount of spam is now back to "normal", 20~30 messages still had to be deleted today.
We certainly still have some sleeper accounts that registered already a while ago, but it's difficult to say which one is spammer or not

Yep. And that will sudder for awhile until all 'sleepers' are eliminated too.