Problems with Spam

[Guzara]

It's really annoying to watch some users or spamboots like they want to make a mess of communities running new vbulletin forums.

A lot of licenced users at vbulletin.com sent complaint they have a problems with spams.

Also same situation like here on Gassyerotica.

Although we are using image verifications, it's still a problem, a global problem, and looks like someone is enjoying doing that!

Anyway, I decided I will annonce publicly, all Ip's of spammers from Gassyerotica, who started their activity when we started using vb4 forum software. ::bam

(Updated occasionally)

The IP Address is: 88.72.10.171
The host name is: dslb-088-072-010-171.pools.arcor-ip.net

[Guzara]

The IP Address is: 88.72.10.171
The host name is: dslb-088-072-010-171.pools.arcor-ip.net

The IP Address is: 212.185.236.171
The host name is: pD4B9ECAB.dip.t-dialin.net

The IP Address is: 88.75.212.174
The host name is: dslb-088-075-212-174.pools.arcor-ip.net

The IP Address is: 212.185.233.41
The host name is: pD4B9E929.dip.t-dialin.net

[poshtayba]

It might solve a lot of problems if you were to implement a field when signing up that forces a user to enter the solution to a short math question, such as:

"(Anti-spam) What is 2 + 3
Please answer in the box provided:"

I've done this on other forums and it eliminates a large majority of spam accounts.

[Guzara]

This is made by humans so not helps.

[tetsuo]

The only thing you can do with human spam is delete and ban. There is nothing you can do to stop them..robo-spam is actually pretty easy to defeat.

[SionDS]

Some forums take themselves out the Google registery since thats how you become a target in the first place.