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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Spam Police

Yes, some bot has been spamming Private Message boxes today. I'm afraid the only thing that can be done is to alter the registration procedure. Unfortunately, that always becomes an issue too.

The bot creates an account, spams a couple users, then creates a new acount, spams, wash, rinse, repeat. So When I pull up my email this morning, I see 30 or so reported spammed-PM's. Most all from different randomized user accounts.

I want a good solution to this as much as the rest of you guys do. :)
 
yeah I got hit. Most everyone did I am sure
 
Christian Edwards said:
Most of them stay up all night on this forum :)
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Sad, but true... Sleep? What's that?

People like to complain about spam here. Even with these occasional flare-ups, it's pretty clean on these forums. I think most would be surprised at the amount of crap that gets deleted before anyone ever sees or reports it.

Something has changed with the forum software. I have not heard from Jason or Jarred what's up. But it seems they switched software installations, possibly did a server upgrade or something. Some buttons have reverted to defaults for the software, some smileys have gone missing, etc.. I'm guessing some of the spam protection was lost too. Anyway, all happened at the same time. I'm going to assume they have a handle on whatever is going on at the server end.
 
they get past the whole thing.... they dont even actually log into the forum.
 
yeah thats why i updated the code... and why we still have some lame-o buttons showing up.. i gotta fix that.
 
I got the email and sent the guy a threatening letter telling him that's Id pretty much kill the f***er if I ever saw him in person...then he sends me this.....

" OH HI
Have you check my site?
http://www.topaffi.com/

the massage is about one of my products show in my blog.
If you join, You can get all of them in VIP section.
Regards"

My threat went over his head...I don't think he's all there....

Kill all spammers.
 
Brandon Kraemer said:
Because it's a bot, not a person.
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ah...copy that. (redfaced) Now I understand why he asked me which email I was talking about since there were many that were sent out. :|
 
Jarred Land said:
... and why we still have some lame-o buttons showing up.. i gotta fix that.
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Boy am I glad to hear that. I thought the REDUSER taste police had quit.

I have to say though, I've only received this one spam message in all of my time on REDUSER. Not bad at all.
Thanks for being on top of this stuff Jarred.
 
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