Can we ban yadidone, MsTBSoX and fionala?

Could ideejewe also be banned, or better even, found out in person and be staked the proper, traditional way?
What a pest.

Same procedure for niceangelbaby...

Girscex, BaBeBiLaa, and BBgrave also need to be banned.

We seem to have a rash of spammers at the moment, some one seems to have devised a new way to do it or found a loophole.

I think you can add BBgrave and girscex to the list.

Indeed. More automated "new friends" with every passing day, lately.

I believe we have a random question during registration as a kind of bot-capture method? It may be that we need to, ah, bolster our defenses a little, so to speak. Or at least look into our current ones to see what's making them falter.

NetpigsBang posted four spams in three minutes. I think he should get a reward. Can anyone guess what it is?

Not to mention NetpigsBang...

*sigh*

This is getting annoying.

Mal, any ideas of what we can do? (Besides reporting?)

I've been on boards with a 24 hour and even a 7 day waiting period, there are "intelligent" captcha's (Like 2 pictures of dogs and one of a cat and the question is to identify "the one picture that is not a dog"), and there is the slightly time consuming human approval option, which is pretty safe...


Here's info about "Askimet" (The WordPress anti-spam plugin) for vBulletin: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=118421

And here's a way to setup spam filtering only for new users (with Askimet): http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...3&postcount=18 But I guess we could moderate the first 5 posts by hand? (And yes, I AM volunteering for spam filtering.)

Yes, I find myself deleting about a douzen spam posts each morning, and I don't even know about the other mods. A catch question or something like that would be nice.

Now laserguru just bumps thread by repeating "Your post rocks". Strange kind of spamming, seeing there's not even a link to something.

Might be one of several things:
1) A test to see if automated posting/spamming works, but with an "innocent message".
2) probably later to be used for bumping spam.
3) Posts to be later converted to spam.

Well, aren't we glad we communicate over a board where we can at least delete all that crap...

MsTBWLZQ needs to be banned...

Just so you know all these people are being banned as they're reported. If you're reporting them in this thread it saves a bit of time if you link to their profile like Hsing is mostly doing, then it's just a click-ban process.

I added another 2 human verification questions to see if that makes any difference, and we can try captcha instead if it doesn't but I think we talked about tryin g to avoid that in the past? Also, if the spammers are actually humans it doesn't maker any difference.

P.S. The Akismet plugin is nearly a year old and not supported by vbulletin, but there's probably something similar we can do.