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 Post subject: 14 Apr - Spam Bots
PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:31 pm 
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Hi all!

Over the last few days we had a few dozen spam bots sign up. Thank you to all mods who quickly deleted their posts.

I removed the accounts that were spam bots. I believe I caught them all. There were many. Thankfully, they are easy to spot, since they usually have a russian email address and/or have a website that is obviously spam.

All of their IP Addresses were banned too.

I also increased the complexity of the CAPTCHA - that image with the letters when you sign up where you have to type in the letters. That should help a lot.

For now, too, I have to manually approve each user, while I watch and see how well the more difficult captcha helps.

As always, please PM me if you see any more spam bots.

Thanks!

-MapWii


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