997ddqu89ce usernae is a hacker. Part of a group who log on at night. All have abbotpark as address details. They cant do much as visitors but as a member may be diffrent. So the powers that be may want to have a deeper look into this new user. Thanks
good to know members are on the ball, thanks for the heads up
He hadn't fully registered but I've banned him/them.
That's an advantage of having paid membership. These spammers won't pay to join, so all they can do is spam General Chat and send PM's.
I was told there are teams of them in China manually registering to websites and spamming them.
It surprised me the other year how quickly they found the fully opened classifieds section and posted Chinese in there. I had to change it back to registered users minimum.
A few of us, but it seemed to fall mainly to me, were deleting these daily for maybe a year as I switched all applications to manual approval. It was too much work and I had to turn that off and just let them register as I didn't was genuine applicants to be in a queue for a few days until someone else processed the list.
Me and paul woody noticed them the other day. Im usually on all night till 7am when im at work. See them all the time.
I've always seen them pop up in the early hours, but to be fair it's been a lot less over the past six or so months. Maybe we should switch back to full lock down, I.e. Members only in all sections bar home page stuff like it used to be.
Originally Posted by Goobie
I've always seen them pop up in the early hours, but to be fair it's been a lot less over the past six or so months. Maybe we should switch back to full lock down, I.e. Members only in all sections bar home page stuff like it used to be.
I'd prefer to keep the site as it is if these spammers are not a particular threat to the site's security.
Maybe we could lock the site down as suggested over-night however, say from midnight to 6am? Create a batch file and have it run in event manager each day, if that's technically possible.
Or is it possible to alter the non-member application process to reject Chinese-based IP's?
They're more of a nuisance than anything really. I banned 6 or 7 of them last week but they don't cause any real problems as far as I'm aware. They're easy to spot too.
Trev, I believe you are running on nix so a cron job might be what you need.
Afaik there are plugins available to block certain countries IP
I've manually blocked most of Asia.
They use false IPs. They started using the IP of this sites host. That's when I stopped blocking IPs.
It's all the guests that I don't understandwe have 40 at the time of writing. I still think the site isn't locking down all that it should be and guests are free to roam. I might be wrong though.
There 55 right now, I've been keeping an eye on it to, for some reason there always some one looking at this thread!It's all the guests that I don't understand
https://www.rtoc.org/boards/showthread.php?t=1378
Maybe we should just actually lock it all back down after all to filter out the free loaders.
Home page and new members "Say Hello" section left open, that should be enough to decide if you want to join or not.
I'm not overly fussed either way, so don't miss read my post. But what I do like about this club is the fact that we are mainly a paid members site, which does help keep the riff raf and time wasters out.
The crap I see daily on other forums that are free to join is mostly keyboard warriors, nothing worse than seeing pages and pages of members trying to get one up one another.
new one on right now trying to register as a new member...hjiioo2as
and this one too ztihwflu
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General chat was left for registered users so ex-members could still chat to their friends here.
And it gives prospective members a much better look.
If any of you chaps are really concerned about these fake users then do please volunteer to take on the task of manually vetting EVERY NEW APPLICATION 7 DAYS A WEEK and delete the spammers as they try to register and approve the genuine ones WITHOUT DELAY, as I was doing. It's not any good keeping people who to want to join up immediately waiting around for days
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