World of Banished

Conversations => General Discussion => Topic started by: embx61 on August 19, 2017, 07:07:08 AM

Title: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: embx61 on August 19, 2017, 07:07:08 AM
I see a bunch of spam messages.

Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: twilightbreeze on August 19, 2017, 07:10:54 AM
Need a mod/admin....how do you stop it?
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: The Pilgrim on August 19, 2017, 07:20:04 AM
I have deleted the user and am now deleting the spam posts. Might take a little bit.
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: The Pilgrim on August 19, 2017, 07:28:52 AM
This forum is now clean... 8)
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: embx61 on August 19, 2017, 07:30:03 AM
yeah, that moron luckily only posted 22 spam messages.

Thanks @The Pilgrim
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: embx61 on August 29, 2017, 04:11:40 AM
That asshole is back again with his spam crap.  >:(
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: RedKetchup on August 29, 2017, 02:10:39 PM
account deleted
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: The Pilgrim on August 29, 2017, 02:14:09 PM
Thanks @RedKetchup   I'm at work and wasn't able to get to the spam.
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: RedKetchup on August 29, 2017, 02:18:21 PM
Quote from: The Pilgrim on August 29, 2017, 02:14:09 PM
Thanks @RedKetchup   I'm at work and wasn't able to get to the spam.

dont worry, we cannot be here 24hrs/24 !
thats normal there are some hours nor you nor me is here ^^
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: brads3 on August 29, 2017, 02:19:17 PM
good job. that sure was a mess.
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: RedKetchup on August 29, 2017, 02:32:14 PM
if he comes back, pick up his IP, i will ban his IP range.
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: embx61 on August 29, 2017, 02:56:18 PM
It is that same dude from about a week ago.

Luckily he apparently cannot count further then 22 as he posted today 22 spam and last week 22 too LOL

Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: galensgranny on August 30, 2017, 03:09:34 AM
Quote from: RedKetchup on August 29, 2017, 02:32:14 PM
if he comes back, pick up his IP, i will ban his IP range.

Instead of only deleting his account and posts, when you are in the mod controls, can't you do a full ban first- email, account name and IP, and then delete the account and posts?  That's what I can do on my forum that uses this Simple Machines program.  Of course, those spammers eventually find some other IP address, but it can help slow things down.
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: The Pilgrim on September 20, 2017, 09:16:38 AM
Yet another bot account deleted.
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: estherhb on September 20, 2017, 10:11:42 AM
I hate it when people do that. Same person/org (from India?) left spam on BlackLiquidSoftware.com this a.m.  Fortunately, all I have to do is go to their account and mark them as a Spammer. It automatically makes all of their posts not seen by the regular members and marks their account so they can't post anymore.  Wonderfully simple.
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: The Pilgrim on September 20, 2017, 12:48:53 PM
Here I have the ability to delete their account and all their posts.
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: galensgranny on September 20, 2017, 01:53:00 PM
Quote from: The Pilgrim on September 20, 2017, 12:48:53 PM
Here I have the ability to delete their account and all their posts.

Oh, you don't have the permissions to do bans.  It doesn't matter a whole lot since the spammers have more technology and knowledge now to use various IP addresses so banning one of them is just a minor inconvenience for them.
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: RedKetchup on September 20, 2017, 02:32:11 PM
but there is not many spammers that can get through our security.
account maker bots cannot pass, it absolutely need someone on their servers to manually answer the question to activate their account which is very rare still.
me or Pilgrim we are here in case. the spams will never stay there for entire days ^^
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: The Pilgrim on September 20, 2017, 05:16:00 PM
I can do bans, it seems as though the deletion is enough as they keep changing ip address anyway.
Title: Re: A bot is active on the forums.
Post by: RedKetchup on September 20, 2017, 05:44:45 PM
Quote from: The Pilgrim on September 20, 2017, 05:16:00 PM
I can do bans, it seems as though the deletion is enough as they keep changing ip address anyway.

when we delete, we have a feature , a checkbox, to delete ALL the post/replys made by this account that save alot of time.
very useful to make a very quick cleaning.