New moderators

[snoopdog]

Welcome you new moderators, Amphiprion and Scott.

Due to activity change in the board I have changed the moderators, until further notice. I am rarely on the board and these guys can clean up the spam and split / delete threads when needed.

[Amphiprion]

Please welcome Fishfood aboard as our new moderator on the forums. He'll be helping out in general, especially with the new influx of spam bots.

[pheonixsoul25]

Yeah the spam bots suck thanks fishfood

[snoopdog]

Well unfortunately the message boards have increasingly gotten more porn spam in 2010 and it is getting worse, with no end in sight. We are actually lucky compared to some.

[AuroraDrvr]

Wanna see something funny? Check out the new accounts.
memberlist.php?mode=&sk=c&sd=d#memberlist

MBRK is internationally popular...

[Fishfood]

Looks like its about 5 new spam accounts a day. I think its funny when they post in a thread that hasn't been active in months instead of creating their own. I tend to check out the site every day during the week so I'll take out the trash when I see it.

[snoopdog]

I have actually gone to banning IP blocks and the list is growing pretty fast.

[Fishfood]

Its kind of getting out of hand. I stopped by the site this morning to see 27 posts that needed to be deleted and I banned 4 or 5 people and one of them had created an account while I was deleting those 27 posts. In the last week or so I've actually been at the site while about a half dozen of these spam accounts were being created and banned them as soon as they were created. Most of these accounts are created and then sit for a week or two then they spam up the board.

[snoopdog]

Definitely getting out of hand and there is no solution in sight just yet.

[Amphiprion]

In the last week or so I've actually been at the site while about a half dozen of these spam accounts were being created and banned them as soon as they were created.

It is getting ridiculous. I do the above what seems like constantly. I'll ban one and their IP, then another. I try to ban blocks when applicable, though. I don't know if anyone noticed, but right around late December and early January, much of it stopped, since one of the world's largest malware/spam botnets went down for whatever reason. They were back in short order and twice as bad, though. It's been on the rise substantially here since about mid-April overall, too.

[snoopdog]

There are too many a day to be human beings, just damn near impossible. I started thing about it, I think the BOTS are actually getting the challenge quest answers from the question so I changed it. Lets see what happens in a week. This of course does not help on the ones that have registered.

[Fishfood]

well whatever you changed it to its working.

[snoopdog]

Would you believe the bots were figuring out basic math and automatically doing the challenge question. Skynet is alive !

I also went ahead and cleaned out all of the false registrations. I may had missed a stray one or two, but I did delete thousands.