All,
I'm working on tightening things up to stop the torrential influx of spam. The process needs to be refined a bit.
Thanks for your patience as we continue to address this.
Dave
Testing replies. Again.
And, testing remotely. Yay.
Well the drug peddlers seemed a lot more tenacious than the movie rippers. Although I'm hard pressed to see the value in spamming the forum beyond the Google spidering it may generate. Sure glad I don't have this on an RSS feed.
Did a lot of the spam come from a small range of IP addresses? And could it be stemmed to some degree with moderation or down voting of posters/sources?
Anyway thanks for getting it fixed...
Hi Per,
It came from literally *thousands* of IPs. Otherwise, I would have blocked them, or entire subnets, if necessary. Not only that: as I was implementing security measures, whatever was attacking was adapting. Kind of impressive, if it didn't suck up a day of my life that could have been better spent doing anything else ever.
We need to require logins. In fact, the entire forum needs to be replaced.
Keep in mind that we are a 2 man team running a site that gets over three million visits a month. Note Google-level, but, still...
Thanks for your patience and support.
Appreciate a 2men teams effort.
But have been facing this trouble since a long time. have reported this on the forum many times before that a "login" would be appreciable on the forum.
the reCAPTCHA consumes time to refresh.
PS: on a 2mbps connection
The CAPTCHA is helping, but not perfect.
We're going to go ahead and add a login system over the next day or two.
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The only captcha that works are the captchas that are so hard to read that normal users regularly have to request a new again and again to manage to guess what characters to write.
People has just invested so much time into OCR-decoding captcha images.
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