Bots and advertising (includes bot names, emails)

First topic message reminder :

Recently i had a bot come onto my forum and make a advertisement. I moved it to my trash. I was wondering if there's a way to make that weird font with the wavy text to make sure your not a machine. I have seen this on other site's and i was wondering if this is possible on editboard? thx.

Help.

My forum experience this problem. Same people keep posting ads in my forum. I banned them but their register different name and post again & again. How can I stop this problem?

Many many thanks in advance!!!

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thast my rules of the darkportal forum

since they see this..our forum can be strict..they havent been posting..
maybe theyre scared...

I didn't realise bots read rules

chrisoys, there is very little that can be done but you have said that you have had them posting on your forum... that means you can get their IP by clicking on the IP box... go to the Admin section and enter that into the ban IP in Security.

There is now a word censor on site... enter all the words like porn etc. that these people are likely to use - if they add links this sometimes breaks the link.

Other than that, just keep removing them, banning them by IP when they post... make sure your forum is set up so that only registered users can post (if you don't they wont even need to sign up to post).

Then just wait for the technicians coming up with another way of stopping them.... in the meantime you may want to vote for my suggestion of banning by e-mail address so you can keep an eye on the pattern of e-mail sign ups from spammers...

https://help.forumotion.com/viewtopic.forum?t=1399

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Hi,

today, Gautamas and Levi (an other technician) said there will be soon a feature to prevent bots from registering

That's great, thankyou

gee maybe you guys can use my rules for awhile..

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sinkgadr is a bot. uses email: sinkgadr@web.de, it has never posted (so can't trace IP) nor logged in since registration. googled "sinkgadr" and found it on many other forums:
Results 1 - 10 of about 96,300 for sinkgadr
all were registered on the same date.

edit:
researched "sinkgadr" a little more and found a post on another forum, the post was titled "have a nice day" and was full of wierd coding.

edit #2:
"sinkgadr" has been banned and deleted from group.

What is this bot's registration date ?

December 2

The updates has been done on December 6, and a modification has been done in the registration process (the password confirmation must now be done after submitting the form).

Here on this English board, we have no more bot registration since these updates, so it should be the same thing on your side. So, delete the already registered ones and you won't be annoyed anymore by registered bots.

hey guys ive google all the bots email address..i think they are really bots should i delete them or what?

All the bots are not bad. For example, a googlebot reference your forum

Please, I am an old man. What are bots, what are peeps, and what is double posting? I think I was banned from the French forum because I did "le double posting", but I don't know what it is !

Semeur

Double posting is posting twice within a period less than 24 hours apart from each other
Bots are automated programs which used to register on forums and spam (for example; porn sites in the profile or a postwith pornl inks). In the case of the google bot, it's a program which examines the contents of your forum

Thank you very much, although I still don't understand what bots were.

Nobody would ever guess that "double posting" means posting twice within a period less than 24 hours apart from each other, and certainly not expect to be banned from the forum for this ! I suppose I have just done it now, but I can't remember what time I asked the question and if I wait until what is probably 24 hours later I might not be available and would probably forget anyway, so I hope you will excuse me . I am not of your generation.

It might help people avoid being banned, as I was on the French forum, if you publish the time of each posting with a note "No more allowed for 24 hours". You can't expect everybody to have super memories and to be familiar with this jargon, which is only loosely based on English as we old folk know it.

Semeur.

I must have miss-explained myslef...
Double posting is posting twice in a row.
For example:

Dojeta at 12:32
I need help

Dojeta et 12:45
Can't anybody help me?

In this case, dojeta double posted seen as between each post there's a short lapse of time and no-one else posted meanwhile

Sorry, I see now that you do publish a time, but it's wrong. The time is now 11.37 GMT here in England.

I hope you won't ban me for correcting what I wrote and for pointing this out.

Semeur.

We wouldn't ban you for double posting ^^

It isn't concidered as an offense. Unless it occurs with repetition after numerous warnings and still...

Caihlem wrote:I must have miss-explained myslef...
Double posting is posting twice in a row.
For example:

Dojeta at 12:32
I need help

Dojeta et 12:45
Can't anybody help me?

In this case, dojeta double posted seen as between each post there's a short lapse of time and no-one else posted meanwhile

I see. It seems that this forum is only for young people who are familiar with the jargon. Moreover, the French forums are only for young people who speak and write French perfectly, although it is not necessary to write perfect English on the English forums. English people can be excluded from the French forums for errors which are similar to errors in English tolerated here.

I have taught English to French students at a language school in Oxford, and I am well qualified to compare the errors which people make in the two languages, for example using the past participle instead of the present participle (seen/seeing) or (probably) using the wrong tense (which used to register). These are exactly the kind of things which French people object to in French. Also, if a word is wrong, they comment in French "If you were not sure of the meaning of this word, you should have consulted a dico", which is not very helpful. Do you look up every word in a dictionary as you write ?

"Double-posting" was indeed one reason they banned me. That is where I heard the term. Cajun was banned simply for imperfect French. They say they have the right to ban anyone they please.

Semeur

Well, unfortuanetly, for you, they kind of do have he right....

Meanwhile, this forum or most forums in general aren't meant for the 'younger' generations. We allow mistakes because no-one's perfect and well, eventhough this is a english support forum, we have many nationalities (which is great ) and therefore can't expect a perfet english from everyone.

Why do they expect perfect French then ? It's not very logical.

Semeur

P.S. It surely can't be because English is an international language but French is not an international language.

French people are (as a genera), very proud of their language and very closed minded on the international community.

Recently, the french shcools were rated one of the poorest for english levels in Europe. The French minister of education decided to give schools a fund to help progress. My headmaster used the funds in the sporting of our school -_-*
(The worst being when I specificately asked for more and adapted english lessons, he said: Why? French is the language the most spoken on the planet )

"French people are (as a general rule ), very proud of their language and very closed minded on the international community.
Recently, French schools were rated one of the poorest for English levels in Europe. "

I'm glad I didn't say this !!!

I thought Chinese was the most spoken language on the planet. Which reminds me, the English written by Chinese people often is really very very difficult to understand, because they have no idea of Indo-European grammar at all, but we have to tolerate this and try to understand them. I have written before elsewhere (and got into trounble for it) that if French wants to have any hope at all of being taken seriously as a great international language again, French people must be tolerant of foreigners making mistakes. But they sometmes are not. That is why poor Cajun, of genuine Acadian Louisianan ancestry, whose father and uncles fought for France, has been banned from contacting his "cousins" on a collector's forum in French, and he and I both think this is very unfair. But the French just say "We have the right to do that." This is a very French attitude, "on a le droit". There are other considerations.

bonjour mes amis,
my french cousins should not be so arrogant to think their languange is the only one in the world that is spoken. if they lived in tampa where i have lived for the past 40 years, they would find themselves outnumbered by the latinos living here. spanish is the number one language behind english that is spoken here. only in lousiana was french spoken and it is now in danger of becoming an extinct species as the spanish is also spoken there as well. our latin cousins have become a large voice in america. i have no problem with this as my great uncle was mexican. and i am glad to extend my hand in friendship to them. we all live in a complex world with many languages. it is impossible to learn them all. so we must learn to live with one another in peace. i am a war veteran of vietnam as was many of our french cousins from dien bien phu years before. and my son an iraq war veteran. both of us despise war. and now we live in peace as civilians. my point to you, the younger generation, is to learn from our mistakes and to curb your hatreds or prejudices if you have them and replace it with understanding and knowlege. only this will allow us to progress with our civilizations no matter what language succeeds to profess our thoughts. we are on just one little planet and it ain't gonna last if we stay at odds with one another, just food for thought from an old man. take care youngins.
a bientot,
cajunsr.

bonjour semeur et cajunsr1

Euhh... I can't seem to understand why you posted this in a topic concerning bots
If you have a problem with the french support forum, feel free to express yourself on the french support forum, for what happens there does not affect this forum's life

To return to this topic's purpose, the bots' problem seems to be solved, so if no one reports a new problem, I might lock this topic in a day or two

Knight

You need to read my posting called by you "Yesterday at 8:47 pm " (although this was not the actual time) which starts "Please, I am an old man. What are bots", and read on from there. Then you will see how it developed. If you read it all carefully, you will see that we have brought this up on the French forum but they have an insular and disciplinarian attitude, not to say xenophobic and dictatorial. (NOT to say that !). That is what we are complaining about. As this website as a whole is based in the USA and as we both speak English better than French, this seems the best place to comlain about how the French are handling it. It is all too easy to "lock" things. This is what they do. We have both been locked out. Caihlem's last four postings have got nothing to do with bots either. Are you proposing to ban him from these forums as well ?

Semeur (without consulting Cajun whose attitude may be different)

Editboard was created after "Forumactif"

I'm not talking about banning anyone, I'm just saying that this topic is about bots
If you want to talk about the french staff's attitude, I recommend you speak directly with them, by re-registering on the french forum and explainig them the situation by PM, because we (thir staff and ours) decided that what happens there must not affect things here, for the 2 forums are different

"Editboard was created after 'Forumactif' "

Sorry, I have no idea what this really means, or what the significance of it is.

Re-regisering with a new ID is one of the things I have been severely criticised for on one of your French forums. Doing it again would certainly only make things worse !!! I HAVE been banned, and so has Cajun, and if we come back again there, we will be banned again instantly, because our French is not good enough for them.

Your French wing seems to have got thoroughly out of hand.

Semeur.

EditBoard is the name of the english domain of the forum system as a whole. It was branched out of ForumActif which is the french version.

I'v read on the French version. You've been banned because of certain things you said and definately not your level in the french language. Leelow for example was our juridical consultant here

I lock this topic because it is now way out of what it's purpose is and to avoid it continuing like this