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To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=39501&th=7522#msg_39501
Looks like we have rejected legit user this time...
Mirek]]>mirek2013-03-24T09:44:19-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=39503&th=7522#msg_39503
mirek wrote on Sun, 24 March 2013 05:44
I have got email from nick 'forfreedom' who got rejected (he has emailed some legit questions about U++, I have redirected him to the forum).
Looks like we have rejected legit user this time...
Mirek
Yes, that's a problem. Maybe this forum has newer version that supports captcha on registering new user. That would be the best solution I guess.]]>unodgs2013-03-24T10:46:23-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=39504&th=7522#msg_39504
Sometimes it is quite hard to tell whether it is a real user or spam. So far I've been following few simple rules that seem to identify the spammers:
1) The registration e-mail is @hotmail.com or @163.com
2) The birth date is three digits.
3) The name is group of unreadble characters (e.g. 'é æ ¦0m7x9s')
These should match majority of the spam, everything else can probably approved. If anyone observed more indicators, please comment.
Regarding point 1), emails can be set to be filtered automatically in the forum administration. Perhaps we should do that, I don't think there is many programmers using those. And it would save me quite a few emails per day from the account approval tool.
Best regards,
Honza]]>dolik.rce2013-03-24T10:55:42-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=39561&th=7522#msg_39561
What would be nice is the option to delete all messages with user...
Mirek]]>mirek2013-03-30T08:51:08-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=40371&th=7522#msg_40371
Quote:
int x = 2;
int y = 5;
int z = x * y;
What's the value of z?
is enough to prevent spamming bots (unless they can code in C++)]]>lectus2013-07-25T20:55:19-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=40372&th=7522#msg_40372
mirek wrote on Sat, 30 March 2013 01:51
What would be nice is the option to delete all messages with user...
They have that on another forum which is handy and can ban that user.
But they also let anybody post without registering which is a PITA with all the spam from China to sell ugg boots, louis vuitton, etc.
The U++ site has handled the spam very well.]]>nlneilson2013-07-25T21:31:46-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=40374&th=7522#msg_40374
Honza]]>dolik.rce2013-07-26T17:03:54-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=40375&th=7522#msg_40375
dolik.rce wrote on Fri, 26 July 2013 13:03
There is a great function in newer versions of this forums. It allows to moderate first N posts of a new user. That would IMHO minimize the possibility of deleting legitimate user. But this feature is present in versions 3.0.1 and I'm not sure how difficult would it be to do the upgrade.
Honza
My estimate is 3-5MD for the FUDforum upgrade; the problem is that the a) the current version is way too old b) it is installed in non-standard way, as the regular install/import has failed.
But I am afraid it has to be done soon....
Mirek]]>mirek2013-07-27T06:31:48-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=40957&th=7522#msg_40957
I guess it is better to moderate spam and spammers out that to scare new users
Mirek]]>mirek2013-10-14T07:05:47-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=40958&th=7522#msg_40958
mirek2013-10-14T07:06:51-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=42577&th=7522#msg_42577
For new users could the initial post/s be put in some que and checked before putting it on the forum?
Some other forums do it that way.]]>nlneilson2014-03-25T17:19:20-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=42578&th=7522#msg_42578
For me the weakest point of the registration form is following part:
"
Please enter the code shown below:
.##.....##..####..##....##..##.....##.
.##.....##...##...##...##...##.....##.
.##.....##...##...##..##....##.....##.
.#########...##...#####.....##.....##.
.##.....##...##...##..##....##.....##.
.##.....##...##...##...##...##.....##.
.##.....##..####..##....##...#######..
"
This is trivial for bots. Personally, I think that ultimate++ should use image istead of chars.
Sincerely,
Klugier
]]>Klugier2014-03-25T17:34:23-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=42597&th=7522#msg_42597
Current version of FUDforum seems to have all that we need. I really would like to make upgrade and in fact I am working on it - but I have hard time overcoming some glitch in the process that prevents me to do so. I have posted my problem to FUDforum
If there is anybody with good LAMP knowledge willing to help to upgrade the forum, that would be highly appreciated. In any case, we need to be careful about the process, so what I require is that first this has to be done on non-production machine (your/mine local) and the process ironed out first.
For those wishing to help, the complete forum dump can be found here:
(it is not current, but to test process it is good enough).
Mirek
]]>mirek2014-03-26T07:19:45-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=42600&th=7522#msg_42600
Link to the forum dump file doesn't work. It should be ultimatepp.org instead of ultimate.org.
Best regards,
Andrei]]>andreincx2014-03-26T07:41:11-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=42601&th=7522#msg_42601
Mirek]]>mirek2014-03-26T07:45:24-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=42692&th=7522#msg_42692
I have now identified the first issues that prevented me to import the forum. It looks like there was theme id mismatch, which I have fixed by
update fud_users set theme = 1;
next issue encountered was incompatibility with new MySQL while doing forum consistency check, fixed by adding q("UNLOCK TABLES") into adm/consist.php line 299.]]>mirek2014-03-29T14:19:15-00:00Re: To forum moderators: We are starting to be too harsh rejecting accounts
https://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=42696&th=7522#msg_42696
mirek wrote on Sat, 30 March 2013 01:51
What would be nice is the option to delete all messages with user...
Mirek
That option is available in vBulletin® Version 4.2.1 and has been in earlier versions.
It is useful and a time saver.
If that was a request made to FUDforum they might include it in the next version.]]>nlneilson2014-03-29T18:17:30-00:00