makoy Posted September 18, 2018 Posted September 18, 2018 Have you guys considered using service like CloudFlare to prevent botnets from crawling the site? Quote
Jim Posted September 18, 2018 Posted September 18, 2018 2 hours ago, makoy said: Have you guys considered using service like CloudFlare to prevent botnets from crawling the site? Personally I haven’t. I don’t have PHP knowledge, so I am not really sure how to implement this on our server, working witg the Invision forum software. Enlighten me 7 hours ago, Bob De Quatre said: And the spammer have now officially correct answer for the security questions... I started with a more open question, like “why do you want to join Eurobricks?”, but that probably won’t do the trick either. Let’s test the current questions for a week or so. Quote
Captain Dee Posted September 19, 2018 Posted September 19, 2018 15 hours ago, Bob De Quatre said: And the spammer have now officially correct answer for the security questions... NO!!!! Dirty mangy slimy spammers... Online traffic jammers... Can we hit them all with hammers? At least the forums have been mostly clean this past week. I was taken by surprise by the security question, but something needed to be done, for sure. They were replicating like chopped-up starfish. And they smell about as bad, too. Quote
makoy Posted September 19, 2018 Posted September 19, 2018 14 hours ago, Jim said: Personally I haven’t. I don’t have PHP knowledge, so I am not really sure how to implement this on our server, working witg the Invision forum software. Enlighten me I started with a more open question, like “why do you want to join Eurobricks?”, but that probably won’t do the trick either. Let’s test the current questions for a week or so. As long as one of the admins has access to DNS and some server extensions, that should be the only technical part of the service that you need to figure out: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/sections/200820158-Cloudflare-101 https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170786-Why-do-my-server-logs-show-CloudFlare-s-IPs-using-CloudFlare- So it's not really PHP knowledge you need to know, rather server configurations. Quote
Jim Posted September 19, 2018 Posted September 19, 2018 Sounds feasible! Maybe I will get back to you on this one. If you don't mind. Quote
makoy Posted September 20, 2018 Posted September 20, 2018 17 hours ago, Jim said: Sounds feasible! Maybe I will get back to you on this one. If you don't mind. If a guy like me can do it, so can you! Quote
xzanfr Posted September 21, 2018 Posted September 21, 2018 (edited) stop forum spam worked back in the day. Not sure how i works with your setup or if it is still effective. Edited September 21, 2018 by xzanfr Quote
TESLA IS THE FUTURE Posted September 21, 2018 Posted September 21, 2018 On 9/10/2018 at 12:04 AM, Pdaitabird said: It's time we fight back: we should flood Korean dating websites with pictures of MOCs! No Russia did it, let’s flood Putin’s inbox with LEGO set reviews! Quote
Mylenium Posted September 22, 2018 Posted September 22, 2018 10 hours ago, TESLA IS THE FUTURE said: No Russia did it, let’s flood Putin’s inbox with LEGO set reviews! He might actually enjoy that. Who even knows whether there's a secret LEGO vault in the Kremlin? ;-) With an estimated personal wealth of several billion he could be one of LEGOs biggest customers.... Mylenium Quote
Takanuinuva Posted September 24, 2018 Posted September 24, 2018 Another Forum I was on got a lot of spam accounts. What the moderators did to solve it was they had to personally accept each new member. It cut down on the spam big time but one would sneak by every now and again. Perhaps that could help? Quote
Jim Posted September 24, 2018 Posted September 24, 2018 57 minutes ago, Takanuinuva said: Another Forum I was on got a lot of spam accounts. What the moderators did to solve it was they had to personally accept each new member. It cut down on the spam big time but one would sneak by every now and again. Perhaps that could help? That's what we are currently doing Quote
JDL1967 Posted October 1, 2018 Posted October 1, 2018 @Jim is it so, that you as a existing member only have to fill in the themes you are interrested in? When i sign in, i have seen 2 tabs, but i only had to answer 1. Quote
Jim Posted October 1, 2018 Posted October 1, 2018 8 minutes ago, JDL1967 said: @Jim is it so, that you as a existing member only have to fill in the themes you are interrested in? When i sign in, i have seen 2 tabs, but i only had to answer 1. There should be two questions which you need to answer. But the easy answer is...don't worry about it as an existing member. If you can post here you are good to go Quote
mocbuild101 Posted October 2, 2018 Posted October 2, 2018 I found the second one when I went to edit my profile. Quote
Angeli Posted October 3, 2018 Posted October 3, 2018 " Which LEGO set did you recently purchase or build? " well, damn. zero. None. Zich But I did spend small fortune on bricks, it should be as an option :) Quote
Jim Posted October 3, 2018 Posted October 3, 2018 5 hours ago, Angeli said: " Which LEGO set did you recently purchase or build? " well, damn. zero. None. Zich But I did spend small fortune on bricks, it should be as an option :) That is actually a valid answer Quote
Oky Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 I haven't seen any spam since the security questions have been implemented, so nice work guys! Make EB great spam-free again! Build a firewall! Quote
Holodoc Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 11 hours ago, Oky said: I haven't seen any spam since the security questions have been implemented, so nice work guys! Thanks, neither have I. It's a bit of work though to manually approve the newbies, but it's definitely worth it! Quote
9v system Posted December 20, 2018 Posted December 20, 2018 its not spam but i keep getting redirected to a fake website saying my windows is infected when im reading topics in the technic forum, i have bitdefender on my computer to protect me form things like this but in worried that someone else might fall for it Quote
Jim Posted December 20, 2018 Posted December 20, 2018 20 minutes ago, 9v system said: its not spam but i keep getting redirected to a fake website saying my windows is infected when im reading topics in the technic forum, i have bitdefender on my computer to protect me form things like this but in worried that someone else might fall for it I have heard this before, but my research indicated it was a user-specific issue, not a forum/topic one. I think it was @Peppermint_M with the same issue. Quote
Capparezza Posted December 21, 2018 Posted December 21, 2018 @Jim + @9v system : Working fine for me, no problems in any subforum. So I would too say that this is something user specific. Let Bitdefender scan your system, if possible reset your browser settings and clear the browser cache. Quote
Pdaitabird Posted February 11, 2019 Posted February 11, 2019 Oh no, they're back! I just reported a post advertising fake passports and IDs. I looked at the profile and they had some interesting answers to the questions: Favorite theme: Eurobricks Recently bought/built set: toils Interests: yes That last one got me! Perhaps we should require a fifteen--page essay from new members! Quote
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