To fix the spammers...

Life, the universe, and everything.
Forum rules
- No personal attacks against players or staff members - please be civil!
- No posting of mature images/links, keep content SFW. If it's NSFW, don't post it on these forums.
Thilindel
Sojourner
Posts: 3173
Joined: Sun Aug 31, 2003 9:09 pm
Location: Indianapolis

To fix the spammers...

Postby Thilindel » Sat Apr 30, 2011 2:21 am

Turn off the registration.
Make someone actually PLAY and verify IP, etc. w/ingame admin -prior- to receiving a BBS account.
Grundar tells you 'I took on the entire football team once. The only reason my mom knew later was because I had a runny nose'
Corth
Sojourner
Posts: 6002
Joined: Sat Jan 27, 2001 6:01 am
Location: NY, USA

Re: To fix the spammers...

Postby Corth » Sun May 01, 2011 3:15 am

If the BBS is limited to people who actually play the mud then it'll REALLY be dead.

Ohhhh! :)
Having said all that, the situation has been handled, so this thread is pretty much at an end. -Kossuth

Goddamned slippery mage.
Corth
Sojourner
Posts: 6002
Joined: Sat Jan 27, 2001 6:01 am
Location: NY, USA

Re: To fix the spammers...

Postby Corth » Sun May 01, 2011 3:17 am

The true answer to fixing the spam situation is for everyone to post their general topics in the politics forum and just ignore General Discussion. Full circle. :)
Having said all that, the situation has been handled, so this thread is pretty much at an end. -Kossuth



Goddamned slippery mage.
Glorishan
Sojourner
Posts: 456
Joined: Thu Feb 15, 2001 6:01 am
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Re: To fix the spammers...

Postby Glorishan » Mon May 02, 2011 10:12 pm

Corth wrote:If the BBS is limited to people who actually play the mud then it'll REALLY be dead.

Ohhhh! :)


That seems unlikely!
Touk says 'ac > glorishan > mr > touk > hps'
Siamorphe OOC: 'If AFKing is the devil, then Corth is the Antichrist and Glorishan is the False Prophet who supports him.'
Referring to the guild on 8/28/06: Oghma responds to your petition with 'your leadership team averages 280 days MIA :('
Teflor Lyorian
Sojourner
Posts: 1273
Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:39 pm

Re: To fix the spammers...

Postby Teflor Lyorian » Tue May 03, 2011 4:00 am

On the phpBB forums I manage, I've found it particularly helpful to use user registration by admin approval. It's more work to review each registration, but it certainly cuts down on spam.
"You see, the devil haunts a hungry man.
If you don’t wanna join him, you got to beat him."
- Kris Kristofferson (To Beat the Devil)
Kifle
Sojourner
Posts: 3830
Joined: Wed Jan 30, 2002 6:01 am
Location: Huntington, IN USA
Contact:

Re: To fix the spammers...

Postby Kifle » Tue May 03, 2011 6:03 pm

Teflor Lyorian wrote:On the phpBB forums I manage, I've found it particularly helpful to use user registration by admin approval. It's more work to review each registration, but it certainly cuts down on spam.


And it's not like we have a huge amount of new users. I second this.
Fotex group-says 'Behold! penis!'

Kifle puts on his robe and wizard hat.

Thalidyrr tells you 'Yeah, you know, getting it like a jackhammer wears you out.'

Teflor "You can beat a tank with a shovel!!1!1!!one!!1!uno!!"

Return to “T2 General Discussion Archive”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 25 guests