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Is it just me, or is there a recent influx of new accounts that all have some spammy site as their homepage?

http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=disg34gento
http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=aline1ne
http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=longlife4u
http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=simki4total
http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=lans45uage
http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=amyangel
http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=italianomy12

I wonder if someone is doing all this by hand, and what it is they're hoping to achieve - linkfarming via profile pages?

Just my .02 EYPO...

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11-14-2006 at 04:39 PM
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Bah. Yeah, I cleaned up a bunch of these a while ago, looks like it's time to do it again... *sigh*

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11-14-2006 at 04:44 PM
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*sigh*

http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=san4uzel

Aren't those accounts being registered from a constant IP? If so, blocking that might help...

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11-15-2006 at 02:29 PM
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Blocking IP may help, or we could do it the old fashioned way. Spam-Laser!!!1! :spamlaser

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11-15-2006 at 04:13 PM
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and yet another one
http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=cruelintentionmovie.org

Looks as if this little forum is growing up, for better or for worse.
11-16-2006 at 07:33 AM
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http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=medic7tota

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11-16-2006 at 06:13 PM
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Might be worth thinking about making the homepage, chat id, avatar and signature fields invisible on the registration page. If they're filled out, you're probably dealing with a bot, so autoban the IP. Registered users could set the fields in their profile later.

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11-16-2006 at 06:23 PM
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trick wrote:
Might be worth thinking about making the homepage, chat id, avatar and signature fields invisible on the registration page. If they're filled out, you're probably dealing with a bot, so autoban the IP. Registered users could set the fields in their profile later.
That's just a temporary solution, though. Perhaps one of those things wherein the human can see the characters in the pic but the bot can't.

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Jatopian wrote:
trick wrote:
Might be worth thinking about making the homepage, chat id, avatar and signature fields invisible on the registration page. If they're filled out, you're probably dealing with a bot, so autoban the IP. Registered users could set the fields in their profile later.
That's just a temporary solution, though. Perhaps one of those things wherein the human can see the characters in the pic but the bot can't.
The point of those isn't that the bot can't see the characters (as it can certainly obtain the picture the same way a web browser can). The point is to make it very difficult for the bot to extract the distorted characters from the image.

But I agree, that is a good solution if bot-created accounts become too much of a problem.

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11-16-2006 at 11:58 PM
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That's just a temporary solution, though.
Well, making the registration process less general means the spammers' bots need more special cases to handle. I guess it depends on how important it is for them to spam this forum.
Perhaps one of those things wherein the human can see the characters in the pic but the bot can't.
Captcha ? It's not as effective as it once was, unfortunately. Bots can read the characters in many cases, it pisses off text-browsing and blind people, and spammers have other ways to get around it anyway.

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11-16-2006 at 11:59 PM
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PROFANITY!!! :crazy

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11-17-2006 at 05:11 PM
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I dunno about this one, but he's a newer member.

http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=afvesaq.org

Keep posting,

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11-19-2006 at 03:46 AM
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UrAvgAzn wrote:
I dunno about this one, but he's a newer member.

http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=afvesaq.org
Well, at least the domain isn't registered, so it's either a spammer that already has been LARTed by the admin on the registration/hosting side, or it's, uh, something else...

np: Underworld - Winjer (Beaucoup Fish)

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Briareos wrote:
UrAvgAzn wrote:
I dunno about this one, but he's a newer member.

http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=afvesaq.org
Well, at least the domain isn't registered, so it's either a spammer that already has been LARTed by the admin on the registration/hosting side, or it's, uh, something else...

np: Underworld - Winjer (Beaucoup Fish)

Ah, but in ROT-13 it is nsirfnd.bet.

This is short for the Goblin phrase "No sirzz findzit, I betzz", refering to the original domain name being non-locatable. This is clearly not a spammer, but a truly dedicated DROD player and puzzle fan who is testing us with his devious name! :thumbsup

I look forward to many more devious challenges in the future from his profile, signature and post count. :hi

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Beef Row wrote:
Ah, but in ROT-13 it is nsirfnd.bet.

This is short for the Goblin phrase "No sirzz findzit, I betzz", refering to the original domain name being non-locatable. This is clearly not a spammer, but a truly dedicated DROD player and puzzle fan who is testing us with his devious name! :thumbsup

I look forward to many more devious challenges in the future from his profile, signature and post count. :hi
Oh dear. I'm afraid I've made a grave error. :?

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11-21-2006 at 07:24 AM
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Spiced pork and ham, anyone?

http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=akogg.org

(It even had the nerve to add "soma buy carisoprodol soma 350mg" as a signature...)

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11-22-2006 at 09:03 PM
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11-24-2006 at 06:55 AM
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NiroZ wrote:
oh, look, they love us again!
Waaay to much of that... :(

http://forum.caravelgames.com/member.php?Action=viewprofile&username=tesmskru

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Captcha ? It's not as effective as it once was, unfortunately. Bots can read the characters in many cases, it pisses off text-browsing and blind people, and spammers have other ways to get around it anyway.

while your other reasons are strong, I do have a question:

in what way is drod a blind-accessible game?


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in what way is drod a blind-accessible game?
In the imaginary way! Obviously.

Nah, those were meant more as general reasons, as opposed to just for this forum in particular. Still, should the fact that DROD the game isn't accessible for the blind mean that this forum should be inaccessible as well ? Does the forum have no value unless you're a DROD player ?

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Remember that the Google index bot is the most prolific blind user on the Internet.

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Mattcrampy wrote:
Remember that the Google index bot is the most prolific blind user on the Internet.
And just like all other bots, we don't really want the Google bot to register accounts here either.

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Schik wrote:
Mattcrampy wrote:
Remember that the Google index bot is the most prolific blind user on the Internet.
And just like all other bots, we don't really want the Google bot to register accounts here either.
Well, at least the Google bot shouldn't randomly fill out form fields and click buttons like the spambots do... ;)

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12-05-2006 at 09:37 PM
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Briareos wrote:
Well, at least the Google bot shouldn't randomly fill out form fields and click buttons like the spambots do... ;)
I wouldn't be so sure. I remember this one time, Google like totally flipped out and killed the whole town.

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Briareos wrote:
Well, at least the Google bot shouldn't randomly fill out form fields and click buttons like the spambots do... ;)
I wouldn't be so sure. I remember this one time, Google like totally flipped out and killed the whole town.
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "googlebombing", don't you think? O:-

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Schik wrote:
Mattcrampy wrote:
Remember that the Google index bot is the most prolific blind user on the Internet.
And just like all other bots, we don't really want the Google bot to register accounts here either.

but it's Google! They're not evil! We know this because they say they're not.

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