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Should there be an option where you can send information about spambots to Forumotion?

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Post by SLGray 5/11/2013, 04:44

I was thinking about the issue of spambots lately because I have had many register on my forum.

My suggestion:

A new option be added to the ban feature where we can send to Forumotion the spambots'  usernames, IP addresses, and email addresses.

Maybe there could be a button on the page after you ban someone that will load a page that you can fill out the information about a spambot or have it where it is automatically filled out.  After filling out the forum, you can press the send button which will add the spambot to your ban list and send a report to Forumotion.

I thought about false reports, too. I would say if Forumotion receives atleast 10 reports about the same person, then the person could be considered a true spambot.


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Post by Ange Tuteur 5/11/2013, 04:53

That is actually a pretty good Idea, I recently had to take care of a few spam bots that registered to one of my forums. I'm sure it could be handy, but there's also the chance of false reports.

Perhaps if forumotion receives multiple reports of identical information(IP, email, username) from different forums that, could help verify the reports of a spam bot. Whereas false reports would be ignored.
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Post by SLGray 5/11/2013, 05:01

I thought about false reports, too. I would say if they receive atleast 10 reports about the same person, then the person could be considered a true spambot.


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Post by SLGray 26/11/2013, 01:17

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Post by SLGray 7/1/2014, 07:50

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Post by SLGray 23/2/2014, 22:23

Over the holidays I had to deal with many spambots/spammers.


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Post by Derri 23/2/2014, 22:26

I think this is a good suggestion, voted yes Very Happy
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Post by Selvester 24/2/2014, 17:53

Interesting idea. I like it! It has my support!
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Post by Rhino.Freak 28/2/2014, 06:39

brilliant idea, spam bots have always annoyed, this system might come in handy in future, voted yep
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Post by RadioHead 28/2/2014, 08:52

Due to the confidential nature of this, the company will only allow this to be done via PM. I'd expect a staff member to know this.

This form would be neglected by the devs, and would easily be abused. 
Keeping this to PM's via a Pro-Admin would be best.

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Post by Derri 28/2/2014, 10:05

I think Pro-Boards have this feature, where you can report via a page spambots. It has worked well by their account.

Personally I open up my forum to spambots as the spam protection in place is too overpowering. The username option does work but it blocks simple usernames like Fred and Niko.

So personally I would actually welcome this and it would be abused horribly but to be honest if they implemented any system of reporting it would be abused.
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Post by SLGray 28/2/2014, 20:35

Yes, this could be abused. That is the reason why I edited my first post and add information about false spambots (10 reports).


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Post by ddoesmc 9/3/2014, 22:02

Very cool and smart idea!
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Post by SLGray 10/5/2014, 23:12

Thanks to everyone you has so far voted.


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Post by SLGray 30/7/2014, 20:12

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Post by Ape 4/8/2014, 03:29

I like it I think it's a good tool to have and will help everyone out more on getting the spambots down


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Post by SLGray 16/9/2014, 19:50

APE wrote:I like it I think it's a good tool to have and will help everyone out more on getting the spambots down
Thanks.   It also could help Forumotion with making a list of spammers/spambots.


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Post by Guest 23/9/2014, 17:11

I feel that this would be a great idea to implement into ForuMotion forums as this will help people deal with spambots faster and help ForuMotion keep their sites clean. So my vote for this is yes.
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Post by SLGray 23/9/2014, 19:08

Jadster wrote:I feel that this would be a great idea to implement into ForuMotion forums as this will help people deal with spambots faster and help ForuMotion keep their sites clean. So my vote for this is yes.
Thanks.

Also thanks to all you have voted.


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Post by Vanitas 8/10/2014, 19:03

This shouldn't be suggested, it should be done lol, we need to get rid of spambots who take up valuable user space for real users.
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Post by SLGray 24/12/2014, 03:15

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Post by Count Dooku 4/1/2015, 20:25

SLGray wrote:I was thinking about the issue of spambots lately because I have had many register on my forum.

My suggestion:

A new option be added to the ban feature where we can send to Forumotion the spambots'  usernames, IP addresses, and email addresses.

Maybe there could be a button on the page after you ban someone that will load a page that you can fill out the information about a spambot or have it where it is automatically filled out.  After filling out the forum, you can press the send button which will add the spambot to your ban list and send a report to Forumotion.

I thought about false reports, too.  I would say if Forumotion receives atleast 10 reports about the same person, then the person could be considered a true spambot.

A big yes ! we had also spambots on our forum,
it was hell to manually delete all posts, but back in 2006, FM (french board, as the forum was in french) stated that there is not much that they could have done back then, but that we had to remove pots by hand, or block by hand each spammer...

Of course a big no, was to allow guests from posting and to remove the quick reply... a thing that was not done if i remember, so to sum up, had we had such a system back then we could have benefited from it... Wink
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Post by SLGray 13/1/2015, 21:12

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Thanks to everyone who has voted.


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Post by Count Dooku 14/1/2015, 01:28

You are welcome ! glad I could have helped.
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Post by TheCrow 14/1/2015, 02:01

Yes, indeed that is an excellent idea! I'd love to have that! Good job SLGray! Voted yes!
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Post by SLGray 10/4/2015, 06:16

Bumping to move the topic to the first page.


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Post by Van-Helsing 10/4/2015, 08:27

Hello all,
Excellent idea it looks an like IPB function "XX Spammers/Spambots Stopped". As an additional function it can be add it in forum statistics too and displaying the number of spammers/spambots which stopped like this:

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Post by Russel 7/8/2015, 20:50

I have no any reason to say no. Great idea @SLGray! Voted Yes
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Post by SLGray 8/8/2015, 06:25

Russel wrote:I have no any reason to say no. Great idea @SLGray! Voted Yes
Thanks.

I believe this will help Forumotion with their blacklist of spammers/spambots.  Have you noticed all the spammers/spambots recently on the support forum?  All they have to do is press the website link in our profiles to visit and spam our forums.


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Post by Russel 8/8/2015, 08:48

SLGray wrote:
Russel wrote:I have no any reason to say no. Great idea @SLGray! Voted Yes
Thanks.

I believe this will help Forumotion with their blacklist of spammers/spambots.  Have you noticed all the spammers/spambots recently on the support forum?  All they have to do is press the website link in our profiles to visit and spam our forums.

I've noticed all of them recently, and as of now seeing spambots mostly in the support section. That's why I bumped this post. This would really be helpful especially when all the staffs are offline and as a concerned member, all we have to do is to report the spams.
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