Recent content by MapleOne

I usually come here when I have an issue of sorts but I have found the ticket system to work quite well for me. The main reason I used to visit was ask questions of how to do something but, I find myself getting proficient to the point where I don't need to visit daily. Once in a while I get an...

2026 and that issue remains

Meta is pummeling my site again today but because 57.141.* is banned they just see the generic 403 message and my resources are nicely intact with no error messages. Seems like every few days they try again to train their MUSE piece of crap. I won't be unbanning them anytime soon and am happy...

I don't think that is the same on cloud, I banned an IP from my phone and got the Oops IP banned message from my forum and I added the 403 error.

I figured it out, it's actually the new Muse training thing, they are hitting sites like crazy to train muse, their new AI model. Just block IP 57.141.* using the star and it goes away in 2 days. Also add a 403 message to the block IP phrase if you know how.

I'm only concerned about the abusive ones, if my guests are under 500 I am happy, as soon as I see thousands I will go back and ban the top 1-2 most abusive bots. I'm not interested in all the extra security stuff and fancy addons, member clicks, cloudflare notices and such. In my opinion they...

It overshadowed all other traffic combined and personally it gives me great pleasure to ban anything facebook. I don't much care to contribute to their platform in any way. My forum is niche and facebook plays no part in it. I would be interested to see how many other people are taking abuse...

I blocked The 57.141.* was taking all my resources for weeks, so I banned the entire facebook/meta ip block and have not had a resource issue once. The singapore IP was not causing a resource issue, I just blocked it because it was affecting my webstats. Read the link I provided, I also...

Just a footnote on that part The most abusive bots hit the site hundreds of times per hour and don't leave, you can check most anytime and see them on the site. The last hour is all you need to see a bot hitting your site 700+ times because if you login 12 hours later they are still there. I...

In my case the forum is just under 1000 members and I personally don't care what the bots are scrapping, in fact I like when I ask AI a specific question relating to my forum and it says.... According to (my site) the information is.... The only thing I am woried about is that I dont run out of...

I was having a similar issue as a lot of members here and opened a different thread because it was mostly META that was killing me and I thought it was a separate issue, Turned out my simple solution took care of things for me with no addons (I disabled all bot addons) using existing Xenforo...

Thanks for the advise but simply banning the Meta IP address has ended my conundrum. My traffic is under control and works like a charm. I also banned the Singapore IP and traffic is perfect, down to a constant 400 guests, down from thousands. What did I block? It takes a couple days to...

Most modern day emails have a +name option On my forum I have an email address that goes directly to a monitored folder. catch@myforum.com I simply remove the bounced email address from the users profile and add catch+user@myforum.com as the email. Additionally I turn of all the users email...

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/block-country.10042/ I only block registration, I allow the countries to view and decided not to block the contact form because I have contact form spaminator, just in case a legitimate user from India needs access he can use the contact form to contact...

Success!!! After banning IP 57.141.* in admin cp After adding meta-externalagent to Andy's Block Bots Took a few hours but as you can see it worked like a charm. Had a new one as well some Singapore Bot and I banned it's IP as well