In case you haven't noticed, we've been invaded by a couple...feel free to count in Scouse_Roar's conspiracy, anti-FFA,FFT comments as spam bot too.

;)

I'm chatting with KA on Twitter about it now. Trying to figure out a barrier intervention of sorts...

chatting, now isn't that a lovely word.

got a cuppa and some bikkies with that too?

I did actually. Not sure about KA though... :p

knowing KA it was cuppa and scones

Another one. Running rampant lately.

This one's even worse. The other ones at least weren't double and triple posting.

Another one...

I got Sseelin. Is there another one?

Would be good if we could purge them somehow.

In the short term 442 should introduce a captcha or mod approval to stop the bots from fucking the forum over.

Don't think so.

another one, LINSSEE

Can we have a mod in AF all the time? That way at least something can get done faster because at the moment the mods are pretty much always in other forums.

Cheers guys. Nabbed him. I'm on most of the time, And I'm trying to watch for them, but I do have other stuff to do to. The thing is, that was posting every 6 seconds. So even if I spot him minutes after he's joined, he's already got 20 posts away. I'm doing what I can, we're obviously going to have to figure something drastic out to fix this.

Or even add a couple of extra mods - we can't expect the guys to be vigilantly patrolling this site every time one pops up. The more we have the more chance we have of nipping it in the bud.

(Not suggesting me!)

Yeah, we totally understand - perhaps a delay after registering 'til you can post, perhaps a captcha system... seems to me like it's being exploited through commenting on the actual articles, seems like a loophole in the 'you can only post once every 30 seconds' rule.

I think we need to form a posse...and maybe another sheriff

:-k who could you mean? :-"

Are you really a General?

I wish I could see that image from work!

we now have a captcha system in place. I'm not convinced it will work though tbh.

Delete the f'n 'eefflin' spam please! ;) :p

Edited by GloryPerth: 3/9/2010 06:05:25 PM

It didn't. There is another one in WF.

That one got us good.

All bar 2 threads in AF. Jesus christ.

There was another one in WF that surprisingly only got 1 thread.

I think it's through commenting on articles, there must be a loophole that you can post faster commenting from the article directly than you can just doing it from the forums. Sew that loophole up and you'll be right.

I think something more like a cure is better. Like as has been suggested, disabling commenting for new users for a 24+hrs.

There's ano... oh no, it's just Joffa. :P

Easy tiger.

:lol: