Seriously? You can stop saying that now. I know it was useful the first couple of times, but the stopforumspam modification does exactly the same thing, and he's already installed it.Martin Truckenbrodt wrote:Hello,
if you want to fight against human spammers successfully just use Advanced Block MOD. Then you don't need any CAPTCHA and any Q&A. Just set Account Activation to User or User+Admin to prevent the last ones of the spammers.
Bye Martin
I have Q&A enabled. So?Martin Truckenbrodt wrote:Hello Callum,
you still have CAPTCHA or Q&A enabled, or not?
As you can see it on my statistics Advanced Blcok MOD is doing a better job. StopForumSpam is sharing the data with the DNS blacklist opm.tornevall.org.
Always the same questions are resulting always the same answers.
What's the original problem? phpBB needs more and better Anti spam technics included by default.
Bye Martin
My users are not annoyed by it.Martin Truckenbrodt wrote:Hello Callum,
if you would use Advanced Block MOD you could disable it and your users would not been annoyed by it.
Bye Martin
Can you please give a step by step (like what php files to change and with waht and what to download), on how you did this as I'm struggling to get my 3.0.8 to work properly, I am getting like 10 to 15 bots registering every day and its a pain in the A$$.emcha wrote:I'm sorry, it's not hard to set up. You make an account at ecaptcha, input the two keys and it's done. The problem is that bots have been able to pass through it, plain and simple. Which is why I changed to Q&A. I used to have 3-5 bot account register every day. Since I placed Q&A with the answer in the user agreement itself, since my forum rules are now shown there too, 0 spam account registry inalmost 2 weeks now.Callum95 wrote:3.0.8 is efficient at handling spam, but the admin doesn't know how to use it*creativecosmos wrote:Greetings and thank you for your work.
Let's be honest here, 3.0.8 is not effectively handling spam.
Since installing the update the problem has gotten much worse.
It is the biggest drawback to using this excellent format.
I want to run a series of new websites with phpbb, but can't with this problem.
There is not the time or desire to waste endless hours unnecessarily.
Most of the suggestions in this looooong thread help a bit but eventually not.
New solutions and tougher security are called for in this evolving case.
Programmers, help us, we need it.
Thank you.
~CC
I'm getting no spam. At all.
~Callum
You ignored my second point. Please tell me how the blacklist will stop the first 20,000 posts.Martin Truckenbrodt wrote:Hello ~Callum,
are you sure that they are not annoyed? Have you asked them?
Sorry, what you are writing else for me sounds a little bit like fairytales based on your personal theories. You should try it and after this test we can continue our discussion comparing different ways to prevent forum spam.
Bye Martin
The more questions you have, the less chances of a bot being able to have an answer to them all. Even more so that they are random. I'm glad your add on is working for you. Mine is working perfect for me.Martin Truckenbrodt wrote:Hello Callum,
you still have CAPTCHA or Q&A enabled, or not?
As you can see it on my statistics Advanced Blcok MOD is doing a better job. StopForumSpam is sharing the data with the DNS blacklist opm.tornevall.org.
Always the same questions are resulting always the same answers.
What's the original problem? phpBB needs more and better Anti spam technics included by default.
Bye Martin
Your response of:Martin Truckenbrodt wrote:I have not ignored your second point. See the last part of my answer. Where is your point about the 20.000 posts coming from? Please give me a source.
did not really address the question. It was merely an attack and a suggestion to try your MOD.Sorry, what you are writing else for me sounds a little bit like fairytales based on your personal theories. You should try it and after this test we can continue our discussion comparing different ways to prevent forum spam.