Massive forum spamming

[Freak-DS]

Those spambots or users or whatever spamming the forums are getting on my nerves. Cant you do anything against these..?

[FerrariMan]

I wonder what they guy's email is, maybe we can ban it

[Remko]

Every single one of the spammers from the past few weeks has been banned, IP and all.
The problem is they immediately re-register with a different IP the next day. Every time someone registers an account here, there's an extra action they have to take to verify that they're actually a human being instead of a bot, but apparently spambots are so sophisticated nowadays that they bypass those easily. apparently they even use OCR techniques these days to deal with Captchas ("type the following code: 6A7Q in this box") kinda disheartening, really.

But you're right, of course, it's getting really annoying. I'm looking into better safeguards against spambots registering here right now.

[Mike]

I'm testing some new forum software, and might try to integrate into vBulletin... but it's a massive undertaking as the regular part of the site is integrated closely with the forums

[FerrariMan]

vBulletin would be a cool idea, better spam filters definitely... but you're right integrating the whole rest of the site would not be easy

Well, how about a better CAPTCHA system? They bother people, but not as much as spam does. Plus, most of the members of our community are already registered here more or less... try Re-CAPTCHA, they're supposed to be good

[bucksavage]

There is another one, very recently, this time with porn images....geez.

[FerrariMan]

There was just another one yesterday called STD Studio, a home furnishings store.
That was actually kind of funny