Anyone else having problems with images, text sizes, ect?
Anyone else having problems with images, text sizes, ect?
Images are not showing up, just the code. Text sizes too, and who knows what else. Is it just me?
I assume you mean on the forum (General, not Game Help).
After two days in a row with upwards of 50 spammed dirtyspammer posts, all of which has to be deleted by hand, I disabled bbcode for the entire forum.
It's back on now, and I've taken the radical step of forcing user account activation manually. If that doesn't work (ie we get lots of spammed images etc from users already registered) bbcode will be disabled again.
No-one needs to play with text formatting to get their point across, really, but losing the ability to post images is a pain for the whole community, me included. I hope it isn't necessary as a long term solution, but until we get the board upgraded to something a lot more secure, it's always on the cards. I spend a lot of time every day cleaning up this rubbish, and so do a few other mods. Time that could be better spent...
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After two days in a row with upwards of 50 spammed dirtyspammer posts, all of which has to be deleted by hand, I disabled bbcode for the entire forum.
It's back on now, and I've taken the radical step of forcing user account activation manually. If that doesn't work (ie we get lots of spammed images etc from users already registered) bbcode will be disabled again.
No-one needs to play with text formatting to get their point across, really, but losing the ability to post images is a pain for the whole community, me included. I hope it isn't necessary as a long term solution, but until we get the board upgraded to something a lot more secure, it's always on the cards. I spend a lot of time every day cleaning up this rubbish, and so do a few other mods. Time that could be better spent...
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Thank you for the response. Was getting worried.
I wonder why this site gets so much spam, while other forums I've seen hardly gets them. Is it the board version? The provider? And is it just me or are they getting more numerous?
The thing that could worry us mostly is that there are or will be kids on this board, I'm not talking about teenagers, but kids.
I wonder why this site gets so much spam, while other forums I've seen hardly gets them. Is it the board version? The provider? And is it just me or are they getting more numerous?
The thing that could worry us mostly is that there are or will be kids on this board, I'm not talking about teenagers, but kids.
I know. It's because we have so many minors that I still spend so much time worrying about it.
It's because of the board version, and the fact that spammers are VERY persistent (a lot of this stuff isn't even automated - they have farms full of these people, manually registering accounts and posting rubbish). Things got better when we removed the forum from search engine indices, although feckin Yahoo still crawls the site in spite of robots.txt. Really we need to upgrade the whole board and the captcha process, though it won't do much to prevent human spammers getting through.
What I'd really love is a simple way to report posters, especially when they post images, to someone who'd care enough to prosecute them. Never gonna happen, and I imagine most IPs this stuff is posted from are either spoofed, or in some country where there just aren't any authorities to enforce this stuff even if they wanted to. It remains but a fervant wish.
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It's because of the board version, and the fact that spammers are VERY persistent (a lot of this stuff isn't even automated - they have farms full of these people, manually registering accounts and posting rubbish). Things got better when we removed the forum from search engine indices, although feckin Yahoo still crawls the site in spite of robots.txt. Really we need to upgrade the whole board and the captcha process, though it won't do much to prevent human spammers getting through.
What I'd really love is a simple way to report posters, especially when they post images, to someone who'd care enough to prosecute them. Never gonna happen, and I imagine most IPs this stuff is posted from are either spoofed, or in some country where there just aren't any authorities to enforce this stuff even if they wanted to. It remains but a fervant wish.
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I see that the problem with banning full IP domains is that other users non guilty, might get banned with it. That's a really big limitation...
Yet... I don't know if you have heard of the "humanizer mod" Fooli. It doesn't vanquish spam all together, but it greatly reduces such.
Here's a link for info, don't know if it might work on this php version though.
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=383788
Yet... I don't know if you have heard of the "humanizer mod" Fooli. It doesn't vanquish spam all together, but it greatly reduces such.
Here's a link for info, don't know if it might work on this php version though.
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=383788