How do you take care of Spam ?

[tafreehm]

Its a simple question, Also mention how do you take care of sneaky advertisers. Who act like a legit member but somewhat they post link of their forum or picture with watermark on your forum.

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For me I got two plugins to take care of forums. one is Xenutiles and XF Qaptcha . These two plugins pretty much covers it, now for those who bypasses these two plugins I would love to get another plugin who restrict users to post img and links before X posts. There is one addon available in RM but its kinda buggy so I have uninstalled it.

And for sneaky advertisers, I got very active staff and I do encourage users to report it.
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What about you guys ?

 

[Jaxel]

I use SolveMedia instead of XF Qaptcha.

 

[Kim]

I use the Block 8 Stop Spam service

http://spam-service.block8.co.uk/

I have had maybe 3 spammers get through since adopting it, which are easily eliminated using the spam cleaner on XF and it has blocked thousands of attempts to sign up.

 

[Chris D]

You can't stop the problem completely.

I recommend checking out my Registration Form Timer add-on but I think that similar functionality is added to XenUtiles now. Also a decent CAPTCHA. Though with Reg Form Timer and Q&A CAPTCHA, I haven't seen a spammer for weeks.

For those that do slip through, you just have to be reactive and respond as soon as they strike.

 

[Jaxel]

You can't stop the problem completely.

I recommend checking out my Registration Form Timer add-on but I think that similar functionality is added to XenUtiles now. Also a decent CAPTCHA. Though with Reg Form Timer and Q&A CAPTCHA, I haven't seen a spammer for weeks.

For those that do slip through, you just have to be reactive and respond as soon as they strike.

The answers to my Q&A are all in the recent spambot databases. Which is odd, since my Q&As were specific to Soulcalibur.

 

[oman]

I use KeyCAPTCHA and XenUtiles. Both work brilliantly!

 

[BlackJacket]

I give it to my dogs to eat because it tastes like sh!t...

 

[Jaxel]

I give it to my dogs to eat because it tastes like sh!t...

I think Spam is DELICIOUS. I cut it into slices, microwave it and put it between slices of bread.

 

[tafreehm]

You can't stop the problem completely.

I recommend checking out my Registration Form Timer add-on but I think that similar functionality is added to XenUtiles now. Also a decent CAPTCHA. Though with Reg Form Timer and Q&A CAPTCHA, I haven't seen a spammer for weeks.

For those that do slip through, you just have to be reactive and respond as soon as they strike.

what is the url..? X_x

All the spam control addons available are only deal with registration process. What if there is human spam.. How wold you deal with human spam? Now I understand you cannot stop it 100% but lets just take a step further to figure out how to deal with those who have tackled all those hardcore registration tactics we have setup there.
For me I think if we put a constraint there for newly registered user that they cannot post a link/image until they make X post, that might discourage them a little. !!

 

[Chris D]

The problem isn't big enough to do anything about it

95% of spammers are stopped at registration. You could do stuff to enforce rules on new members but then you are potentially ruining the real users experience for the sake of a handful of posts that can just be cleaned up on sight.

 

[tenants]

tsh.. 95...
The Stop Botters should be increasing that percent a little

100% of bots for me, and I never get any human spammers since I block certain countries (there are multiple ways of doing this)
I also detect Anom Proxies, Transparent Proxies, DNS= reverse look up, etc.

3 of my own solutions all stop 100% bots, and customImgCaptcha is free and stops 100% bots (and can not easily be targeted unlike many other CAPTCHA),
but the proof is in the pudding, see which ones are still working a few months from now ... my bet is that the most popular CAPTCHA will all be broken

Think ReCapthca with Google funding.. the concept was easy to target*could be targeted regardless of the money put in (constantly altering the images). If you can train against a data set or solve the CAPTCHA with a limited attempt of clicks / actions, it's only a matter of time until it's programmatically solved. If there is no data set to train against, and the answers have an infinite range (or very large/hard to brute force range), the concept is much harder to target

QA had this advantage, but it had the biggest disadvantage.. the Q and A were easy to store and there are only a finite number of questions (users can run out of ideas that are still human friendly). Custom images QA could be broke in a similar way eventually, but are much easier to replace (think of a snap shot of your shoe, there are infinite pictures you can take, each will be unique when doing a binary comparison)

CustomImgCaptcha lets you know when a bot has solved it and it's time to replace the images...

Other than that, obviously FoolBotHoneyPot for bots, StopCountrySpam (with muliple proxy detection methods) for humans


(*It actually wasn't easy to target, since the images sets were frequently updated, but it was the most rewarding CAPTCHA to target due to the number of sites that used it)

 

[tenants]

what is the url..? X_x

All the spam control addons available are only deal with registration process. What if there is human spam.. How wold you deal with human spam? Now I understand you cannot stop it 100% but lets just take a step further to figure out how to deal with those who have tackled all those hardcore registration tactics we have setup there.
For me I think if we put a constraint there for newly registered user that they cannot post a link/image until they make X post, that might discourage them a little. !!

I've seen that Stop Spam Here deals with the process affer registration, see: Stop Spam Here

 

[Russ]

XenUtils has prevented a little over 10,000 spam bot registrations since November 30th , past that some QnA