Spammers in Guild Forums

[Marlen]

idk if any of you guys have had this problem, but its starting to be abit of a nuisance.....
The recruitment section has been working for us, but not the kind we were hoping for. Only members that have joined our forums are mainly advertising accounts, and sales agents :eek:
has any of the other guilds here ran into that problem? or are we just that "special" >.<

[LanMandragon]

It is certainly not as succesful of a system as the previous system was for me.

The previous system I could activally seek out people who I thought would mesh well.

This is just a crapshoot.

[MaxTheDwarf]

You're probably not that special, just that stupid.

[Wedge]

Are you implying that the clan advertisements you're allowed to use on this forum may be attracting spammers to your website? This would be the first of it I'd heard of but it's worth looking into.

[Kyrandos]

lol

[Leric]

Nothing like that's happened to us so far.


O_O or was clickheretobuyviagraandendyourdissapoint ingsexlife, really not interested in darkfall????


nah... couldn't be.

[Azash_AT]

idk if any of you guys have had this problem, but its starting to be abit of a nuisance.....
The recruitment section has been working for us, but not the kind we were hoping for. Only members that have joined our forums are mainly advertising accounts, and sales agents :eek:
has any of the other guilds here ran into that problem? or are we just that "special" >.<

I used to keep AT's guild advertisement up on the forum. Then I got wind from our web admin that our forums were getting spam accounts created left and right.

We did alot of preimptive activities in order to stop this one of those was me ceasing to advertise on the guild recruitiment forum. I dont know if that was the sole reason or just one of many but the spammer account flood has come to an end for us.

[Surly]

Same thing happened to me. They just signed up with obscene links in their bio pages, but never posted because I disallowed rights for it... Had to switch to vBulletin recently in order to get access to some forum security features that could handle blocking them entirely. Also added the entire continent of asia to the IPTables of our server to DROP.

[mlucas]

We have had this happen in past games as well .It seems to run in cycles and may not be directly related to this game or community.

Some of these types seek out guild fourms where their post will get some regualr views i.e. a clan web site .They do get some info from game sites web address url etc I am guessing.

Our fourms we fairly well monitiored but I have noticed they seem to go in cycles several post over a short period of time then they get the hint and leave after we ban IP, user names etc.

If you can check the IP of the poster at your site ,you most likly will find it the same one or two just using differerent user names or accounts.

I would as Surly suggest switch to a forum software like Vbulletin, BKB has been using it now for 3 or 4 years. It is well well worth the few bucks in features they offer and ease of use.

[LanMandragon]

Are you implying that the clan advertisements you're allowed to use on this forum may be attracting spammers to your website? This would be the first of it I'd heard of but it's worth looking into.

Happened to us to Paro.

We had to close the forums, upgrade them, use higher security etc.

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[Oscar-GoD]

Yeah, we started getting those about a year ago or so and had to make some changes to our forums.

[Barbarossa]

We got one, a character that goes by the name "DrPlloB" and his listed website sells pills. He hasn't attempted to spam us on our forums yet. He won't be a member for long if he does attempt it to spam or sell crap.

We did have one a while back that was trying to sell penis enlargement crap in our forums but his english was so horrible I assumed he arrived there by mistake. I still gave him the axe and banned his IP simply because I don't pay a yearly fee for a secure website to sell or have anyone attempt to sell anything unless I'm getting a cut :sly:

[Brannoc]

I've made a few changes to that area of the forum that should curtail the activities of marketing drones on your private sites a bit.

Another step you might take is removing email adresses and websites from your signatures as adbots will also target these.

Spell things out longhand; brannoc at yourhost dot com or other such clever things if you're utilizing your signatures to advertise.

[Barbarossa]

Good advice. Thanks for the tip, Brannoc.

[Marlen]

k, was wonderring if it had happened to others as well.
was thinking mighty been from somewhere else, but we really havent looked that much into tother games, especially in the advertising aspect.
Thankx for the adive btw ^ ^

[Artorius]

Yep, we've had this problem as well.

[Snog]

Yup they're plenty of spiders and web-bots that troll our forums. I just blame the internet in general tho.

[L-C]

idk if any of you guys have had this problem, but its starting to be abit of a nuisance.....
The recruitment section has been working for us, but not the kind we were hoping for. Only members that have joined our forums are mainly advertising accounts, and sales agents :eek:
has any of the other guilds here ran into that problem? or are we just that "special" >.<

I'm sure there are real people desperate to join boring clans with generic names.

It looks like your website just got owned by some Turkish hackers. You might want to learn how to secure your website before pointing the finger elsewhere.

Screenshot (http://www.exploiter.org/l-c/misc/mystowned.png) - for future reference.

[Celerity]

We haven't really had a problem with it.

I recommend you invest in some better forum software. Good stuff like vBulletin will let you require image verification on registration. You know, those little images with skewed letters and numbers that OCR can't read? Image verification, combined with requiring people to register before posting, has been very effective. The only way they can get past this is to have a human manually verify the image when creating the account, which they could theoretically do, but we haven't had it happen yet.

[Xinnro]

idk if any of you guys have had this problem, but its starting to be abit of a nuisance.....
The recruitment section has been working for us, but not the kind we were hoping for. Only members that have joined our forums are mainly advertising accounts, and sales agents :eek:
has any of the other guilds here ran into that problem? or are we just that "special" >.<

Yes quite a few... we are working on it right now...though now we pretty much just laugh about em

*edit* as other said, better forums always help. right now we are working on gettin up the new ones which should solve the problem