http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=36317&start=15
neptronix said:AW: I can't believe there are that many "sleeper cells". How long do those accounts lie dormant until they post? If it's over a month, a simple database query hooked up to a daily cron job could delete unused accounts over a month old. If they hang out for even longer than that... great!
If we made that forum invisible to anyone except members so that no bots can crawl it, it might work ok. However, it would then require the mods to read everything that gets posted there to determine if they are real people or not. A spammer would be able to just script it so their bot always posts at least x number of posts, and easily get around the protection, though.Moderator pre-approval would seem to be a turnoff for new users and also require some manual labor. One forum i joined up on would corral it's new users into a newbie form until they got X amount of posts. That worked pretty well!
It doesn't matter which IP you're referring to; it is stll possible for actual users to have a signup IP that is the same as a spammer, so I wouldn't want to do any kind of scripted deletion based solely on IP matches. I'd want to verify first that each user is indeed a spammer.neptronix said:amberwolf - the IP thing i am referring to is the signup IP, or whatever the most current IP is. I'm not sure how it functions, but in the phpbb database, there is an IP address per user.
If multiple users signup with the same IP, this is a nice tipoff.
I'm not sure how mobile phone IPs work - if they're within a certain block of IPs or what.
. Who ever wrote this realy gets it! Lol awesome just like poetry!mdd0127 said:This just showed up from out of nowhere in the drafts folder on my yahoo acct:
I love Endless-Sphere forum.
Brand new motor, latest, greatest turns up at your door. Do you put it in your bike and be merry? Hell No! Straight to the chopping block, hack it, slash it, mill it, drill it, until it is what it could be. Then put it on your bike. But do you run it with that pay pal ordered stock controller? Hell NO! You got to beef up those traces till you can drive a truck through, rip half the components off the board and replace them with with something that could switch a small town on, then reprogram the program with lies, do a shifty on the shunt until that little brain operating the on off switch is so confused that it lets the current flow like money from Bernanke's printing presses. Hook up a couple of deep cycle gel cells and your done? Hell No! Strap at least 24 nano explosive devices to your whispering death machine, charge to an inch of their life, then prepare to suck them dry at such a rate that the electrons get carpet burn on the way out! Strap all this to your bike with duck tape, make sure it minus 200 outside, hook up your proof of insanity helmet cam, prey to the gods of speed and then, and only then when time and space warp around you as the flux rolls can you be content in the knowledge of what could be, not what has been.
Carpe diem.
I have no idea how it got there????? I sure didn't write it. It's pretty funny though. Weird.
Arlo1 said:. Who ever wrote this realy gets it! Lol awesome just like poetry!mdd0127 said:This just showed up from out of nowhere in the drafts folder on my yahoo acct:
I love Endless-Sphere forum.
Brand new motor, latest, greatest turns up at your door. Do you put it in your bike and be merry? Hell No! Straight to the chopping block, hack it, slash it, mill it, drill it, until it is what it could be. Then put it on your bike. But do you run it with that pay pal ordered stock controller? Hell NO! You got to beef up those traces till you can drive a truck through, rip half the components off the board and replace them with with something that could switch a small town on, then reprogram the program with lies, do a shifty on the shunt until that little brain operating the on off switch is so confused that it lets the current flow like money from Bernanke's printing presses. Hook up a couple of deep cycle gel cells and your done? Hell No! Strap at least 24 nano explosive devices to your whispering death machine, charge to an inch of their life, then prepare to suck them dry at such a rate that the electrons get carpet burn on the way out! Strap all this to your bike with duck tape, make sure it minus 200 outside, hook up your proof of insanity helmet cam, prey to the gods of speed and then, and only then when time and space warp around you as the flux rolls can you be content in the knowledge of what could be, not what has been.
Carpe diem.
I have no idea how it got there????? I sure didn't write it. It's pretty funny though. Weird.
Kiwi said:I love Endless-Sphere forum.
Brand new motor, latest, greatest turns up at your door. Do you put it in your bike and be merry? Hell No! Straight to the chopping block, hack it, slash it, mill it, drill it, until it is what it could be. Then put it on your bike. But do you run it with that pay pal ordered stock controller? Hell NO! You got to beef up those traces till you can drive a truck through, rip half the components off the board and replace them with with something that could switch a small town on, then reprogram the program with lies, do a shifty on the shunt until that little brain operating the on off switch is so confused that it lets the current flow like money from Bernanke's printing presses. Hook up a couple of deep cycle gel cells and your done? Hell No! Strap at least 24 nano explosive devices to your whispering death machine, charge to an inch of their life, then prepare to suck them dry at such a rate that the electrons get carpet burn on the way out! Strap all this to your bike with duck tape, make sure it minus 200 outside, hook up your proof of insanity helmet cam, prey to the gods of speed and then, and only then when time and space warp around you as the flux rolls can you be content in the knowledge of what could be, not what has been.
Carpe diem.
amberwolf said:It's bad enough when i ban by IP I may end up at least temporarily blocking some real user from accessing the site, because in the future their IP may get changed to one that is banned.
But for now it is at least partially effective in keeping spammers away, so I have to use that tool for now, till we get better tools.