Spambot Protection
issueid=20 03-09-2008 06:32 PM
Ancient Member
Number of reported issues by Grey: 58
Spambot Protection
More blocks needed to stop spam on the forums

Whilst certain blocks are currently in place it's evident from the first fews days of activity on the forum that spambots are getting through. These can be an extreme nuisance if left unchecked. Suggestions so far to improve forum security have been:

-Require e-mail verification for all new forum accounts
-Use a harder to crack distortion text picture
-Human checking of all new account requests
-"I'm a spambot" checkbox to be unticked when registering
-Non-standard question when registering, such as "Spell ADOM backwards"
-Filtering of certain keywords used by spambots (xxx, porn, goatse, etc)
-Filtering of messages containing more than 5 links

(the last two could be disabled for members who already have say over 20 messages, and who want to post lots of links and talk about goatse as part of regular ADOM discussion)
Issue Details
Issue Number 20
Issue Type Feature
Project Website Development
Category Forums
Status In Progress
Priority 1 - Highest
Suggested Version Unknown
Implemented Version (none)
Votes for this feature 10
Votes against this feature 0
Assigned Users (none)
Tags (none)




03-09-2008 06:41 PM
Issue Changed by Grey
  • Priority changed from 4 to 3

03-14-2008 08:57 AM
Issue Changed by adom-admin
  • Status changed from Suggested to Implemented

09-29-2009 12:25 AM
Issue Changed by Grey
  • Priority changed from 3 to 1 - Highest

01-16-2011 08:32 PM
Issue Changed by adom-admin
  • Status changed from Implemented to In Progress

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