Anti-Spam

[GrimFinger]

I have downloaded and installed a a Regular Expression field plug-in, for the user registration process for this site's forums.

I am hopeful that this will help to prevent automated spambot registrations in the forums here.

[GrimFinger]

This far, the Regular Expression field plug-in appears to be holding fast, keeping the spambot hordes at arms length, acting as a gate keeper, of sorts, for the site's forums.

I installed it, initially, on another site that I run. There, not a single spambot registration has occurred in the full week since I installed it there. In the week since I installed it here, we have had good success with it, as well. A couple of days ago, I modified the new user registration process for the forums, here, and it now asks users two additional questions made possible via this plug-in. Consider it to be sort of a double-layer of protection from the spam zombies. Spambies!! I wonder if I've coined a new word?

Apparently not, following a quick search using Google. Curses! Foiled again!!

But, as long as the spam bot zombies don't breach the registration process, then we should have sanctuary, here. That's the object, anyway.

Poor Mark Wardell, over at the PBM Gamer website. His site continues to be plagued by the spambot zombies. He keeps fighting back, but they just keep on smashing their way through his set-up, there.

[Toppers]

keep it up grim its a hard task but keep vigilant

[GrimFinger]

keep it up grim its a hard task but keep vigilant

I think that a lot of it has to do with what software you use, and how you choose to approach the issue of spam. I post about it, occasionally, and report on things that I am doing about the issue, but I don't really consider it to be a major problem on my sites.

[Toppers]

yup same here so far I have been lucky I use e107 for my website and it is pretty good at keeping spammers out if set up correctly any that have got thru I have banned right awy...

[GrimFinger]

Though there have been no penetrations by automated spambots, since I last fiddled with this site's registration process, merely as a precaution, I have changed the anti-spam questions. That way, if any spambot scripts are being worked on for this site, then we will nullify whatever progress that they may have been able to make.

[ixnay]

Grim - thanks for granting me spam-killing rights.

I deleted numerous spam posts today, and "banned" the three user accounts that were involved.

And there was much rejoicing...

[GrimFinger]

I don't ban them. I simply delete their accounts.

[GrimFinger]

OK, I believe that I got the last batch of spam cleaned up and corresponding accounts deleted.
My Internet has been out for 4 days, due to an auto accident and slow technical support in the aftermath. Very annoying.

[Peter]

We had a lot of problems with spam at the rising empires forums but since I added a Q&A plugin to the registration process we haven't had a single spambot attack. Works very well (and I've even written the answer of the question in the question )...