http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Topic: Fight Against Auto-Register Robot en Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:30:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fight-against-auto-register-robot#post-13955 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:11:51 +0000 _ck_ 13955@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>So far this has solved the problem for me completely:<br /> <a href="http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/</a><br /> I'll augment it as they adapt. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fight-against-auto-register-robot#post-12246 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:13:01 +0000 Null 12246@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You can never stop spam registration if people hire people to sign up. Nor captcha or askimet or any other program can prevent that.</p> <p>We can however block all registratingspambots with an empty www field like the starting post. Only problem is, it aint working :( </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fight-against-auto-register-robot#post-12223 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:21:56 +0000 chrishajer 12223@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>sambauers, are you saying I have to move to India or China to get a job like that? More work being taken away from Americans ... :D</p> <p>Seriously though, I have a few spam users registered every day, and they always link their username to a website, but there are never any posts by them (maybe I delete them soon enough after registering that they never make a post.) So, what good is it creating a user with a link to a website in a profile they never post from? Would a list of users show up somehow in a stock bbPress install where the links there could actually drive traffic to them somehow? I know WHY they do it, but if their username is never shown next to a post, how would the link to their site ever get picked up? I've always wondered about that. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fight-against-auto-register-robot#post-12214 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:33:57 +0000 Trent 12214@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Good point. You just assume they are automatically registering robots. I have the "extra" custom registrations plugin and it stops most spam, so logically the other users could be real people....</p> <p>Trent </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fight-against-auto-register-robot#post-12207 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:00:34 +0000 sambauers 12207@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Are you sure they are robots? There are people in India, China and elsewhere whose job it is to register spam users to websites.</p> <p>These measures will not work on them at all. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fight-against-auto-register-robot#post-12202 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:08:59 +0000 Null 12202@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Same. I've tried this one, but I could still registrate without leaving the webpage field blank :(</p> <p>I need something too and fast, cause I am getting at 200! registration spammers already and counting...</p> <p>_Null </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fight-against-auto-register-robot#post-12197 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:14:18 +0000 Trent 12197@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Anyone know what to put in for this to work? I am thinking I would like to make a required field that has to be blank and if someone fills it out, (this case spammer robot) it automatically denies them. Any thoughts?</p> <p>Trent </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fight-against-auto-register-robot#post-12158 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:13:43 +0000 Null 12158@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Tried this, it aint working :( </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fight-against-auto-register-robot#post-3431 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:45:51 +0000 JianShuo 3431@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hours after I setup my site, I found 12 spam users, whose URL is just a porn site. They seem to use automatic system to register.</p> <p>To fight against, I used a very easy way: </p> <p>1. I added a note to the website field of registration form: Do NOT fill in this field. Only spammers do.<br /> 2. Add the following line after<br /> Line 13: $user_url = bb_fix_link( $_POST['user_url'] );</p> <p>It blocks any registration with the website field:<br /> //Added by Jian Shuo Wang to avoid spam users<br /> if(! ($user_url == ''))</p> <p>My assumption is, robot don't read about the "NO website" claim and people do.</p> <p> exit; </p>