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Probably not the best thing to hear, but I don't know how these people look like even though I am on an FRC team. :yikes:

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Then your registration would need an admin approval.

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I'm pretty sure many people do not know how these people look. Most newbies won't know it either. maybe, we could have a captcha gif instead, with moving characters to make OCRs have a harder time!

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I quick google search would show you their faces. You should try it sometime.

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I don't think that would work. If you're given a picture of some person you don't know, you'd have to do a reverse image search. If you do that, than anyone could do that easily.


My suggestion would be to change the captcha system to something like reCAPTCHA or Confident CAPTCHA, which John Fogarty suggested on page 3.

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OK. Anyways, how would the moderators know whether it is a spambot or it is a actual person. What if the spammer creates the account by himself and allows the spambot to login off that account?
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I feel like the "multiple users report and it gets removed" is a good idea right about now. Seems like there is always a few threads around and about with people reporting them for spam, then it waits for someone else to remove it. Or again with the previously mentioned "Gets moved to an un-viewable thread to non-mods/admins who can either dump it or put it back up.

Is there a list somewhere off all mods/admins? I am kinda curious as to who of them are still active or not. Also, is there somewhere you can offer to be a mod? Perhaps another group could be made solely to remove spam if they see it. No more permissions other than moving threads to a spam folder for someone else to review and delete? How hard would these be to implement?

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HELP!!! My random forum is being spammed with new members, all spambots. I can tell they are spambots because the email addresses are random!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Any suggestions?
I zoomed out! Here is a list.
somerandomuser and admin are the only valid users, as far as I know!

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Do you think the spam is directly from a human or a spam bot. I mean I only see the spam threads once about everyday, it's not like they are flooding the whole entire forum so all we see is spam until we scroll down. Though what happens if the spammer turns out to be a person who is in the FIRST FRC competition themselves? What would we do then, I mean we have somebody who knows how these forums opperate and everything. Where I am going with this is that during the build season /competition season (January-April). Thats when these forums are going to be the most busy with threads and everything. So if you say this person (the spammer) was part of the FRC competitions themselves they would know the perfect time to flood this place with spam. If I was a spammer targeting Chief Delphi forums I would flood the place with spam during January-April when these forums would be busy with normal people trying to ask questions about their and other's robots and answer them.

So for the next few days I plan to:

• Examine the spammers user anme
• The email address they use
• look for patterns (with their name and email)
• Their team # they are using
• location they do give

and more

Also if you notice the spammer is always using a different account
(because they have to ofcourse)

So in the next week or so I plan to have a report on the spammer about what I know and ways we can prevent it.

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If someone wants a temporary mod account on my forum to see the types of spam coming, it may give a hint of what to look for on this forum. The email addresses are made up of random letters, gmail or hotmail! I think Google and Microsoft might like this to see what is happening with their email accounts!