Aurora 4x
Announcements => Announcements => Topic started by: Erik L on January 24, 2017, 01:21:06 PM
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Just as an FYI, I implemented a new anti-spam feature. In the last week, this feature blocked 710 spam attempts, both bot registrations and guest posts. It does make my life a lot easier :D
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You mind sharing some of those features, or do you not want to let the spammers know what those features are?
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It's a plugin to the forum software that compares the IP addresses to spam blacklists.
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If you look at http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?action=stats at the bottom, you'll see various stats, posts, new users, etc. From 2011 to 2015 there was around 1000 new users per year. 2016 had 11.5k. Not all of these users were approved. But that is definitely when the spam picked up pace fairly hardcore. January's numbers for this year were shaping up to follow suit. But that's when I put in the plugin.
Since then, there have been maybe a dozen new users and 1 or 2 guest posts.
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Going further into the data, it seems it all started to blow up right after quill18 started his lets play at the end of 2015.
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Thanks Erik - I've noticed the reduction in "new user" messages in my inbox already.
John
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Just an update...
Reporting period Jan 24 2017 - Jan 31 2017
Signups
Spam Users Total
1 864 42 1 906
Comments
Spam Legitimate Total
48 3 51
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what's defined as a comment?
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what's defined as a comment?
This, or erm, this?
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Comments by guests or unregistered people.