TSR: In Ur Accounts, Deletin Ur Stuffs!

[Witchboy]

It doesn't appear to be a "hacking" because no one's account has been compromised. It's a brand new account created just today.
Last Activity: Today 04:11 AM
Join Date: 09-23-2009

It's the same thing that happened at Black Pearl. Someone also joined up as a member to deliberately post pron.

[minionsRmine]

Ok. It may be a similar attack, but I just wanted to make sure people knew that spambots are capable of that crap too, just in the same exact way. It's certainly possible that someone might get the "bright idea" to spam a forum, but like it's been said already, why simtopia? What's the connection? It'll be interesting to see what comes out of all this, if the administration there even decides to investigate it. I know I sure would be madder than a hornet and would be out for revenge if someone pulled that on me.

[dstar]

There is only one I can think of  L.J is a member of BPS. She isn't a member here, or at MATY, and I don't know about Sims Cave. Of course so are dozens here at PMBD who have not been hacked, and whose sites have not been spammed that are also members of BPS. I still urge caution anyways but then I have been moderating posts and users since the first week my site was open because of this problem. L.J wasn't and BPS is a huge site and they don't always catch everything before it happens. Actually this is pretty much not happening on any sites were all posts and users are moderated cause it is nipped in the bud from the get go.

[HugeLunatic]

I have a spam filter installed on my forum that will not allow registrations based on IP, username, and e-mail address if they are on a spammer list.  It blocks hundreds per week. Of the couple that may get through in a month they are banned at that time by an admin.  And porn is among them.  Since I have all downloads available to guests, this limits the actual amount of registrations coming in.  Way easier than the whole approval thing.

[dstar]

I have the anti-spam filters turned on as well- it may be that the forums that were spammed either didn't or just couldn't keep up with stuff that got through because they are sites where you must register to download anything. I don't offer downloads at all - just finds links (love the new TS3 windows btw HugeLunatic) and news postings re: community issues, site closings, new creators, creator retirements etc so I don't have anywhere near the number of people registering for my site as would have to register at S2A or that do register at MTS- simply cause I play to the specific audience of people within the Sims Community and have my spam policy clearly defined posted on the site.

[Skoria_Bay]

As I've said before in other posts, I play Neverwinter Nights 1 online. I am a member of a "persistent world" and we have forums to interact, post announcements, etc. We had a situation where some "spambot" registered from the same IP address and spammed the forums with porn ads and links. Thankfully, our moderators took care of and deleted the links and banned the "user". They went to a manual registration process where the new user had to respond to an e-mail from the forum admin. I hate to say it, but you might want to consider something like that.

[dstar]

I have the works now- after the first fifteen spammers it was spam filter, moderated registrations with email verification and in case the verified and passed the spambot test users decided to spam the site with paysite ad's, ads for non- sims content, non-PG-13 content etc, all posts are moderated to. It is not a big deal right now while my site has a small membership, and my site has been spam free for nearly a month now.

[Pescado]

I don't really think pornspam is the work of a nefarious agency within the community. I think it's just a wave of botspam that has taken hold because some spammer managed to find a launch point that hasn't been blacklisted and it spamming for all they're worth, and has nothing to do with the community. You just need some more creative anti-spam systems. I've found that relatively few spammers know what the capital of Assyria was, and even fewer simultaneously also know the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow.

[redraw]

I don't really think pornspam is the work of a nefarious agency within the community. I think it's just a wave of botspam that has taken hold because some spammer managed to find a launch point that hasn't been blacklisted and it spamming for all they're worth, and has nothing to do with the community. You just need some more creative anti-spam systems. I've found that relatively few spammers know what the capital of Assyria was, and even fewer simultaneously also know the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow.

Don't you mean European or African swallow?

[Dr House]

Is the swallow carrying a coconut? It does change all the calculations.

Seriously Pes I don't understand your questions method since google-fu lets anyone pass them. Unless you're aiming to avoid bots that is. And I can't bloody imagine what will be forums' subscribing page in a few years. It'll have questions with quantic mathematics? Or a human body diagram to fill with all the bones' names? Maybe new subscribers will have to scan their fingerprints and upload it to the forum... Aye joyful times ahead

[karu]

Laden swallow = http://www.nectere.net/smf/index.php   

[redraw]

I do happen to have the Monty Python Fluxx game, and one of the cards is an Unladen Swallow, with small text that says "Counts as either European or African Swallow"

[minionsRmine]

I think it's just a wave of botspam that has taken hold because some spammer managed to find a launch point that hasn't been blacklisted and it spamming for all they're worth, and has nothing to do with the community.

The voice of reason! I'm just a nobody.

[neriana]

I've found that relatively few spammers know what the capital of Assyria was

You do realize that "what was the capital of Assyria?" is a trick question, don't you? Assyria had multiple capitals at different times.

[redraw]

I figured as much when I signed up for the phorums. Though it might not be as effective as it is starting to become one of the more common search terms on google.