Please Read: Spambots, seeing illegal links & Reporting Posts

[Hadrian]

When you see a thread posted by a spambot please don't post inside it, it just helps them really. If you want to help just report it and thats it.

Seen an illegal link? Don't quote it, it just makes it more work for us as we have to edit the link out of your post too. Just report it and tell us how its an link to an illegal file and we'll go from there.

Regarding members, we'd appreciate it if you didn't post in the thread that you are reporting them. Just report them and thats that, otherwise most people just edit their posts and we have no proof of what they actually said.

We appreciate all of your help to keep the forum clean of spam, bad behaviour and illegal links.

I love you but in a way man loves his favourite food after going hungry for several hours.

 

[Hatsu]

Oops

sorry. From now on I'll just report

Good boy!

 

[C175R]

Oops

sorry. From now on I'll just report

Good boy!

 

[Hatsu]

Great! Now their posting in other sections.

 

[Cyan]

How do we report PM spam ?

I'm forwarding it to 1 admin (I don't know which one is better), but there's no "report" button.
Report would be like a forward anyway, right ?
Can we forward to mods too ?


I reported someone I suspected to be a PM spambot, but he was still not banned after few days.
I guess it's ok, he didn't spam me again, so I deleted the message.


I also suggested "let's change the pass phrase", bots seems to know it to well now.
they know where to look, so maybe change the place or html tag id, or don't print it on the same page (like a popup, or a link to another page).

 

[prowler]

1TB/s ROM DOWNLOADS!

 

[ProtoKun7]

Not a rickroll!

I'd appreciate maybe not having to open a thread to report it

For those painfully obvious ones 'n' all. Maybe have a notice that it wasn't actually opened when the report's sent though.

 

[Hadrian]

How do we report PM spam ?

I'm forwarding it to 1 admin (I don't know which one is better), but there's no "report" button.
Report would be like a forward anyway, right ?
Can we forward to mods too ?

Send it to any Global Mod, Supervisor or admin. If anyone gets spam, you can freely message me and I'll deal with it as soon as I see the message.

 

[ProtoKun7]

How do we report PM spam ?

I'm forwarding it to 1 admin (I don't know which one is better), but there's no "report" button.
Report would be like a forward anyway, right ?
Can we forward to mods too ?

Send it to any Global Mod, Supervisor or admin. If anyone gets spam, you can freely message me and I'll deal with it as soon as I see the message.

Might want to include a note with it, otherwise the staff will just warn you for spamming

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

*salute*

Business as usual.

 

[Hatsu]

The easiest way to stop the spambots is to find out how these bots work.

 

[DeMoN]

I might suggest a auto-ban system, where any newcomer who posts a specific keyword (like "viagra") gets banned immediately.

 

[Davess]

How do we report PM spam ?

I'm forwarding it to 1 admin (I don't know which one is better), but there's no "report" button.
Report would be like a forward anyway, right ?
Can we forward to mods too ?

Send it to any Global Mod, Supervisor or admin. If anyone gets spam, you can freely message me and I'll deal with it as soon as I see the message.

Send it do me :3

Edit: 20% Warn For me :3

 

[junker_man32]

this regards me...auto type titler.

 

[Brian117]

Why doesn't GBAtemp just have a security code you have to type in when you sign up? Unless they do? I wouldn't know since I signed up back in '07. Heh. I don't remember having to enter one.

It will help keep the bots from signing up.

 

[ProtoKun7]

The "GBAtemp does not host ROMs" is the closest I can think of, but we need something else. Maybe a common sense question like "Do you like Twilight?" If the answer's yes, then we know it's either a bot or someone we don't want on the forum anyway.

 

[Hadrian]

Why doesn't GBAtemp just have a security code you have to type in when you sign up? Unless they do? I wouldn't know since I signed up back in '07. Heh. I don't remember having to enter one.

It will help keep the bots from signing up.

They're easy for bots to get around.

 

[DeMoN]

Security codes and math equations are easily bypassed. What's needed is a word problem. Something like:

A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many are left?

 

[Brian117]

Why doesn't GBAtemp just have a security code you have to type in when you sign up? Unless they do? I wouldn't know since I signed up back in '07. Heh. I don't remember having to enter one.

It will help keep the bots from signing up.

They're easy for bots to get around.

Not really. Not unless you do the kind of security answers like, "What's 2+3?" or something. Or even those security words like they have on Facebook.

 

[p1ngpong]

How do we report PM spam ?

I'm forwarding it to 1 admin (I don't know which one is better), but there's no "report" button.
Report would be like a forward anyway, right ?
Can we forward to mods too ?


I reported someone I suspected to be a PM spambot, but he was still not banned after few days.
I guess it's ok, he didn't spam me again, so I deleted the message.


I also suggested "let's change the pass phrase", bots seems to know it to well now.
they know where to look, so maybe change the place or html tag id, or don't print it on the same page (like a popup, or a link to another page).

This makes me think of something I have mentioned before in passing. A member profile report button could be extremely useful for such things. A spambot PM spams you, go to their profile and report it, it would also be useful in other circumstances.

 

[Hatsu]

Maybe a common sense question like "Do you like Twilight?" If the answer's yes, then we know it's either a bot or someone we don't want on the forum anyway.

How about: Are you a spambot?

Security codes and math equations are easily bypassed. What's needed is a word problem. Something like:

A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many are left?

10?

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Not really. Not unless you do the kind of security answers like, "What's 2+3?" or something. Or even those security words like they have on Facebook.

Most bots can figure the maths out. The reCAPTCHA would work though.