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RE: banning accounts upon key words/phrases - Ofnuts - Oct-25-2016

On GimpForums(*) spam became a non-issue (under one spam per day) by:

  1. forbidding links in first posts
  2. making user profiles invisible to guest users (this includes Googlebots)
  3. regularly deleting inactive users (those with 0 posts)
  4. tallying spammer IPs on a monthly basis and eyeballing if specific addresses or /24 or /16 ranges were repeat offenders and ban them.
  5. un-ban these address ranges that had kept quiet for three month or more
This was on an ancient version of MyBB. Current versions include a tool to do #3, and StopForumSpam for #4 and #5, as well as settings to prevent user having signatures before some number of posts (and it is very time consuming for a spammer to make 5 posts that don't look out of place in a forum (especially about something like Python)).

(*) Somewhat more popular than PF.org, with an Alexa ranking around 120K before going belly up, while PF.org was around 400k

RE: banning accounts upon key words/phrases - nilamo - Oct-25-2016

http://python-forum.io/Thread-multiprocess-passing-multiple-arguments-double-asterisk

Quote:How do I [censored] the dictionary arguments?
Did we go live with banning certain things?

RE: banning accounts upon key words/phrases - metulburr - Oct-25-2016

(Oct-25-2016, 02:33 PM)nilamo Wrote: http://python-forum.io/Thread-multiprocess-passing-multiple-arguments-double-asterisk

Quote:How do I [censored] the dictionary arguments?
Did we go live with banning certain things?

fixed it...it was a little too strong...thought pass was ass