Goodman Games

The forums have been inundated with spam lately...

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Dark Oracle of Gaming

Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!
Lovely Spaaam! Wonderful Spaaam!
Lovely Spaaam! Wonderful Spam.

Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.
Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.

Lovely Spaaam! (Lovely Spam!)
Lovely Spaaam! (Lovely Spam!)
Lovely Spaaam!

Spaaam, Spaaam, Spaaam, Spaaaaaam!

Sorry, coudln't resist.

BD

I know they have
was like 3 distinct diff ids of about 30 some posts I deleted the other day
feel free to PM me if I miss some

Tad
A Mod

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Over 30 years spent gaming, all sorts of systems, feel free to ask me anything, no guarantees I will have an answer.

phpBB v3.0 RC1 was released earlier this month, but it doesn't look like it has any features that would really cut down on the spam.

http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/

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Dieter Zimmerman
[[Faceless Minion of the Dark Master]]

Thanks Mythfish
Hopefully it will slow down
I am once again employed, starting on Tuesday, so my anti-spam efforts will fall to evenings and early am before heading into work.
But the war continues.

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Over 30 years spent gaming, all sorts of systems, feel free to ask me anything, no guarantees I will have an answer.

wow, talk about irony

wow teach me to go to sleep at night
like 4 or 5 spammers slammed us last night
please PM me if I miss one buried in a thread you like

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Over 30 years spent gaming, all sorts of systems, feel free to ask me anything, no guarantees I will have an answer.

As a side note
my 4 weeks of not having a job ends tomorrow
I am once again gainfully employed
Which also means I wont be cleaning the forums on and off during the day like i have been.

Patience is requested
Lets get some legitimate posts up here while we are at it gents

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Over 30 years spent gaming, all sorts of systems, feel free to ask me anything, no guarantees I will have an answer.

Bah. Insane. I don't think I realized all the work tadk was doing. Log on every 4 hours to delete 16 posts.

//H

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The lucky guy who got to write some Dungeon Crawl Classics.

DCC Resource thread: character sheets, judge tools, and the world's fastest 0-level party creator.

you know if I didnt like the folk here and the Products, I would not have volunteered.

All good and I am getting some kind assistance with others spotting spam I missed so the help is appreciated

Tad

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Over 30 years spent gaming, all sorts of systems, feel free to ask me anything, no guarantees I will have an answer.

Tadk,

My forum-fu is WEAK. Is there anyway to wipe all posts by an individual at once?

//H

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The lucky guy who got to write some Dungeon Crawl Classics.

DCC Resource thread: character sheets, judge tools, and the world's fastest 0-level party creator.

nope it is not enabled in this

so it is one by one

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Over 30 years spent gaming, all sorts of systems, feel free to ask me anything, no guarantees I will have an answer.

Is there a way to make all new members wait for approval from the webmaster via email before they can begin posting?

Yeah, I know the system is capable of that. It's just a matter of weighing the annoyance of deleting spam all the time vs. the annoyance of the webmaster having to approve each individual account all the time (& legitimate new users having to wait before posting their questions).

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Dieter Zimmerman
[[Faceless Minion of the Dark Master]]

I notice there is a new version of BBBoards available, as well... perhaps upgrading the forum code to the new version will introduce some tighter spam control?

Also, is there a "code" option you can include on submissions -- ie, to post, you need to enter a 3-6 digit series of letters shown... it's a security feature I'm seeing more and more often on blogs and forums around the 'net.

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Crypt of the Devil Lich, Dungeon Interludes, The Mask of Death, Adventure Begins, Vault of the Dragon Kings, the Power Gamers Wizard Strategy Guide, The Adventure Continues, Palace in the Wastes and PhoenixCrawl Open

The new version of phpBB doesn't seem to have any added anti-spam features, but it never hurts to run the most recent version anyway. I thought that this board had already been upgraded to the version with the visual confirmation, but perhaps not.

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Dieter Zimmerman
[[Faceless Minion of the Dark Master]]

The real question is: why hasn't this particular thread been hit with the spam yet...?

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Gnome Boy • DCC playtester @ DDC 35 Feb '11. • Beta DL 2111, 7AM PT, 8 June 11.
Playing RPGs since '77 • Quasi-occasional member of the Legion of 8th-Level Fighters.

Link: Here Be 100+ DCC Monsters

It has been a few times
Last night I was on and there was a spammer posting
I was deleting as they were going along

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Over 30 years spent gaming, all sorts of systems, feel free to ask me anything, no guarantees I will have an answer.

I just delete their account and ban the username. That stops them faster.

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Co-Author: The Almanac of the Endless Traders, DCC #13, DCC #29, DCC #49, DCC #51, DCC #52, DCC #63

Author: DCC #55: Isle of the Sea Drake, DCC #61: Citadel of the Corruptor, more to come....

our esteemed leader has that power

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Over 30 years spent gaming, all sorts of systems, feel free to ask me anything, no guarantees I will have an answer.

Now that's the definition of efficiency!

Thanks for your your efforts!

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Gnome Boy • DCC playtester @ DDC 35 Feb '11. • Beta DL 2111, 7AM PT, 8 June 11.
Playing RPGs since '77 • Quasi-occasional member of the Legion of 8th-Level Fighters.

Link: Here Be 100+ DCC Monsters

A pleasure
this is a great community
I love the products
Glad to help out as I can

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Over 30 years spent gaming, all sorts of systems, feel free to ask me anything, no guarantees I will have an answer.

Yeesh.

Can't deal with Spam?

Well, if you can't beat 'em...join 'em.

Eh?

That's right, join them.

Let me take a few moments of your time to introduce a product that can lower your annoyance with Spam...

Is it fried?

Fried Spam isn't too bad at all.

I've been doing a lot of this as well. Since I was annointed "Deputy Marv" I've been killing 20+ threads per day, sometimes 20+ threads several times per day. Good thing I'm a teacher and unemployed in the summer.

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Marv / Finarvyn
DCC Minister of Propaganda; Deputized 6/8/11
DCC RPG playtester 2011, DCC Lankhmar trivia contest winner 2015; OD&D player since 1975

"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own."
-- Gary Gygax
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