Random Chitchat 2012-2016

[NiLSPACE]

Unfortunately it seems spammers are still coming. Does anyone else know a way to prevent spammers?

[PureTryOut]

From my experience it's basically impossible without redoing the authentication yourself... On a MyBB forum I manage, I've setup basically every anti-spam feature there is, but they still manage to come through. I just make sure deleting the accounts and their content is as easy as pressing a single button on one of their posts.

[ShadowCone]

What about a neural network (like there are for email spam) deciding whether a post needs moderator confirmation before being showed to others....

Yes, as puretryout said, unless you do something in the register process differently than everyone else bots will always come through

[xoft]

No need for a hyper-intelligent solution. Simply don't allow posting a URL until the account has at least 3 regular posts. That should help keep the number of ones that get through low, at least until they upgrade their tools

[NiLSPACE]

Yes, but how do we do that in MyBB?

[xoft]

After more than a year I received an email from this forum, saying there's a new post. I thought, wtf, did someone finally get the forum email working? Unfortunately, the new post was a spam anyway.

[bearbin]

Well the issue is this:

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mcserver@xoft.cz
    host mx1.savana.cz [81.0.240.252]
    SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<mcserver@xoft.cz>:
    550 5.7.1 <forum@cuberite.org> Access to <mcserver@xoft.cz> not allowed

forum@cuberite.org has been receiving a load of these emails for a long time - I thought I forwarded a few to you but maybe not.

[xoft]

No, please try to send me a few of them, I'll talk to the mailserver guys.

[NiLSPACE]

I'd like to change the security questions people have to answer when creating a new account. Any ideas? I'd prefer if we don't have simple questions like "2 + 2". I was thinking more something like:

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If a man has five apples and a friend gets two, how many does he have left?
Who originally created Minecraft?

[sphinxc0re]

Good job! I take both