Massive spam bot attack

D4rw1N · June 15, 2011, 2:50am

What’s up with the sudden invasion of bots on the forum?

Maybe it didn’t require it’s own thread but hey… Why the hell not!

TYPICAL · June 15, 2011, 6:56am

Dunno. Was hoping that google had bumped us up a bit due to portal 2 video’s from Demon. Wishful thinking I guess.

Cameron_D · June 15, 2011, 9:12am

Changed some stuff, if it doesn’t help we can just enable email validation

TYPICAL · June 15, 2011, 11:37am

But I like the bots!

Centaurium · June 15, 2011, 11:45am

Thanks, Cameron!

D4rw1N · June 16, 2011, 1:42am

Me too, they’re like… My only friends…

Cameron_D · June 17, 2011, 1:27pm

So I just checked, turned out there was some large influx of spam bots hitting the site, and by large I mean 15-20x larger than the normal:

TYPICAL · June 17, 2011, 1:34pm

What do the green and red lines mean? All I know is that about 1800 of one thing happened and 3500 of another thing happened.

Cameron_D · June 17, 2011, 1:38pm

Green is total page views, red is page views from known/suspect spammer IPs (labelled ‘threats’)

quadrazid · June 18, 2011, 2:13pm

we need the bots for better forum activity

Cameron_D · June 20, 2011, 11:31am

[me=Cameron:D]goes on an IP range blocking spree[/me]

EDIT: Also installed reCAPTCHA for registration, that might help.

TYPICAL · June 21, 2011, 2:14am

Cameron is so beast!

EDIT: kinda… We’re still getting spam. :-[

TYPICAL · July 25, 2011, 12:46am

Oh the irony.

EDIT: I’m leaving this for Jared.

Centaurium · July 25, 2011, 2:01pm

Confound this spambots, they lead me to drink.

TYPICAL · July 25, 2011, 5:39pm

Can we get a feature that if we delete an account it deletes all their posts?

I’m sick of having to hit remove post 8 times to clean shit up.

EDIT: OMG IT ALREADY EXISTS! ;D

cRZYFST · July 28, 2011, 12:04pm

So what’s the status on this? The issue doesn’t seem to be resolved. You said something about email verification, Cameron, is this precaution active now?

Cameron_D · July 28, 2011, 2:05pm

Yes, and has been for a while ._.

S11 · July 28, 2011, 3:30pm

The only thing that makes this real safe is account verification by moderator. But obviously, that isn’t an option.

D4rw1N · July 28, 2011, 3:45pm

I could volunteer as a moderator if necessary. If not for confirming new accounts at least I could delete all the constant incoming spam threads and posts. I’m lonely enough to take the time to delete every single one as soon as I see them. :’(

igge · July 28, 2011, 4:01pm

I think everyone is. This is a forum for speedrunners after all.