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PlayMaker Help & Tips => PlayMaker Help => Topic started by: djaydino on April 12, 2017, 04:33:23 AM

Title: Spam Messages
Post by: djaydino on April 12, 2017, 04:33:23 AM
Hi,
Lately the spam messages are posting more and more.
There need to be found a solution for this...
If anyone has some solution for this, post it here :)

We are working on a solution now,
but you can still post ideas to fight those evil ad spammers.

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I also requested to Alex to give access to remove posts but even if i can remove them manually, it would be better if we can find another solution.

I can remove posts now.

If you find some spam please let me know on our Playmaker discord channel in the 'report-spam' channel. (this is the fastest way)
If possible please add the url from the spam message.

Here is a link to our discord channel : https://discord.gg/JG4fpgg

Or you can click on 'Report to moderator' on the post to report.

Thanks in advance for all the help
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: PET on April 12, 2017, 05:01:58 AM
The solution is to upgrade to a "proper" forum. SMF is way to dated. I think an 150$ XenForo license shoudn't be a problem.

https://xenforo.com
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: jeanfabre on April 12, 2017, 06:44:49 AM
Hi,

 The problem being porting the existing posts, attachments and users from smf to another system. Plus I don't think SMF is the problem here but more the captcha system which is based on predefined answers that bots can easily sniff around and then reuse to create fake accounts, I think this is what's going on.

 Bye,

 Jean
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: PET on April 12, 2017, 07:00:15 AM
There are converters. Even if you can't convert directly from SMF to XenForo, you can do it like SMF > PHPBB > XenForo.

Actually... it seems it supports SMF:
https://xenforo.com/help/importing/
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: elusiven on April 12, 2017, 10:06:23 AM
Can you not add on the google's re-captcha system? That should solve the issue, rather than switching to a whole new forum.
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: jeanfabre on April 12, 2017, 11:27:14 AM
Hi,

 yes, that's the plan.

 Bye,

 Jean
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: jeanfabre on April 12, 2017, 11:29:18 AM
There are converters. Even if you can't convert directly from SMF to XenForo, you can do it like SMF > PHPBB > XenForo.

Actually... it seems it supports SMF:
https://xenforo.com/help/importing/

Hi,

 Very good, thanks for this info, I'll forward to Alex for consideration.

 Bye,

 Jean
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: tcmeric on April 12, 2017, 11:51:28 AM
No single spam protection is going to work in this day and age. I used to teach courses on spam protection for large scale drupal websites. It included 10 plus options that sites could deploy. It seems SMF supports many of them.

A combination of honeypot, google captcha and something like bad behaviour together usually got around 95% of spam stopped.

There are large spam farms still operated in certain countries that use humans to bypass captcha and honeypot manually. Once the account is created by a human, then a bot takes over. They get paid a few cents per account.
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: jeanfabre on April 12, 2017, 03:12:12 PM
Hi,

 woah, I did not know that people where paid to spam, disturbing...

Bye,

 Jean
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: HeathClose on April 12, 2017, 06:20:51 PM
They get paid a few cents per account.

forget games... where do I sign up for the big bucks?

does that gig come with health insurance?
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: jeanfabre on April 13, 2017, 02:34:19 AM
 :o  ;D
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: PET on April 13, 2017, 04:37:14 AM
XenForo has some plugins to enhance spam protection... besides the capcha. It has a plugin that checks multiple steps and if the user is passing a trashhold it's stopping the registration.

XenForo is really really cool :)
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: djaydino on April 14, 2017, 05:56:49 AM
Hi,
I can now remove spam messages, but i can't watch the forum 24/7 :(
and i might overlook some.

So if you find some spam please let me know on our playmaker discord chanel in the 'report-spam' channel. (this is the fastest way)
If possible please add the url from the spam message.

Here is a link to our discord channel : https://discord.gg/JG4fpgg

Thanks in advance for all the help
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: elusiven on April 15, 2017, 02:12:24 PM
Will do, Let me know if you need some extra help always happy to help.
Title: Re: Spam Messages
Post by: djaydino on April 17, 2017, 05:25:47 PM
Hi,
I just want to say thanks for all the spam reports!
Keep em coming :)