Citrus Growers Forum

829 · Posted: Thu 26 Mar, 2009 2:24 am

Lazz, if you ever want to move your forum let me know. I will see what I can do about setting aside some space for you free of charge. Has forumup not upgraded to phpbb3 yet?

Laaz · Posted: Thu 26 Mar, 2009 9:15 am

It's not a bot. I have to delete these posters on a daily basis. Thanks for the heads up. Bots can not pass the OCR test to join.

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829 · Posted: Thu 26 Mar, 2009 12:29 pm

No problem. Millet came on a short time after and the spam was deleted.

turtleman · Posted: Thu 26 Mar, 2009 4:54 pm

Do you have access to your htaccess files?

Laaz · Posted: Thu 26 Mar, 2009 4:58 pm

Not with the free forum.

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Patty_in_wisc · Posted: Fri 27 Mar, 2009 11:16 pm

Laaz wrote:

It's not a bot. I have to delete these posters on a daily basis. Thanks for the heads up. Bots can not pass the OCR test to join.

May I ask what you're talking about? What about a bot? Laughing

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829 · Posted: Sat 28 Mar, 2009 3:36 am

Laaz wrote:

It's not a bot. I have to delete these posters on a daily basis. Thanks for the heads up. Bots can not pass the OCR test to join.

Captcha is easily worked by bots now, which is why they now have both background and foreground noise and human recognition questions. If it was not a bot, he was a very fast paid employee, with multiple cans. In a minute or less, he hit just about every forum and went for old posts instead of the easy tops.

Patty_in_wisc · Posted: Sat 28 Mar, 2009 4:48 am

829 wrote:

Laaz wrote:

It's not a bot. I have to delete these posters on a daily basis. Thanks for the heads up. Bots can not pass the OCR test to join.

Captcha is easily worked by bots now, which is why they now have both background and foreground noise and human recognition questions. If it was not a bot, he was a very fast paid employee, with multiple cans. In a minute or less, he hit just about every forum and went for old posts instead of the easy tops.

???????????? What's a bot about ?????????????????
Most of us don't know what you're talking a bot.

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Laaz · Posted: Sat 28 Mar, 2009 9:40 am

Unless they are using new software I doubt they are passing the Captcha.

I have three different OCR programs and none of them have been able to crack the Captcha on this site.

They may use a bot once they join, but I can't see a bot getting past the OCR to join.

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829 · Posted: Sat 28 Mar, 2009 11:55 am

Ah, I did not know how many layers you have.

Patty: http://www.phpbb.com/blog/2008/08/28/captchas-in-phpbb/

dauben · Posted: Sat 28 Mar, 2009 1:22 pm

829 wrote:

Lazz, if you ever want to move your forum let me know. I will see what I can do about setting aside some space for you free of charge. Has forumup not upgraded to phpbb3 yet?

829, any thoughts about SMF? I was using it in lieu of phpbb for a forum I had started for church. So far I've been pretty happy with it for the few posts we had, but we never implemented it on a large scale.

Patty: http://www.simplemachines.org/

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829 · Posted: Sat 28 Mar, 2009 2:21 pm

It depends on the version. One of the most irritating flaws with SMF use to be getting past the first page of a topic. I hope by now they have corrected that issue, but one use to have to manually change the post number to get past past one. For example, if you wanted to get to page 2, you would have to manually change the starting post to 15, 30 for page 3, etc... I did like some of the features like reps though there are addons for phpbb for that. I think SMF has the potential to rival vbulletin in the long run, but they have a lot of issues to work out from the top down and they are not exactly open source as like to hint about. This keeps their development cycle slow and the developers are a bit rude at times. If they would just switch to a completely closed program and charge for it, things might get better for them, but right now trying to run down the middle of the line between VB and PHPBB is rather pointless, IMO. Sorry for the long winded response, I just see potential there, but it seems the developers are saying my way or the highway.

I like vbulletin the best, but it is expensive to run.

JoeReal · Posted: Sat 28 Mar, 2009 4:22 pm

Laaz wrote:

Unless they are using new software I doubt they are passing the Captcha.

I have three different OCR programs and none of them have been able to crack the Captcha on this site.

They may use a bot once they join, but I can't see a bot getting past the OCR to join.

Nothing beats the cheap labor from China, being paid by hacker organizations to post in various forums. If it were a bot, then we would have oodles of unwanted posts, but it comes from time to time, not as frequently as bots can do, so I am suspecting that it is real cheap labor paid by the penny per posting. They also hire such people to click on the google ads of the competitors to drain the competitors money for nothing. With China's cheap labor sweat shops, and other parts of the world, no Captcha can stop them.

829 · Posted: Sat 28 Mar, 2009 4:50 pm

I suspect Lazz is correct with the hybrid thought, it happens regularly. It hit just about every forum in less than a minute, from what I could tell. I just figured since phpbb2 is very exploitable, it was only a bot.

829 · Posted: Sat 28 Mar, 2009 4:53 pm

On my forum, I have 12 pages of fake users since the start of March. They never show up as new members, that is one of the good things about V3.