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  • I love the spammers.

    I am getting pretty damn tired of all the spam accounts registering lately. It is getting a little excesive. Last time I turned of the ability to register and it calmed down some for a while, so I am doing it again.

    If you need to make a new account for press reasons then let Suicane or myself know.
    My banner is bigger and prettier and cooler then yours. I choose not to show it so your feelings do not get hurt.

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    Do you have to delete them yourself to keep the board from being affected?
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Kobeck
      Do you have to delete them yourself to keep the board from being affected?
      Suicane or I, whoever has admin powers. I already had it so any new accounts had to be activated, so they atleast couldn't post and I could just delete them. But now it's just annoying the hell out of me, we have had a good 20 spam accounts over the last 2 weeks. At the very least.
      My banner is bigger and prettier and cooler then yours. I choose not to show it so your feelings do not get hurt.

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      • #4
        Doesn't look like this is working.. unless Suicane allowed his pill-pusher to sign up as Donovan..

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Coder
          Doesn't look like this is working.. unless Suicane allowed his pill-pusher to sign up as Donovan..
          Yeah, stupid me. The best I can do is how I have had it. They can register accounts, but they need to be activated. Can't turn off registering all the way.

          Oh well. :?
          My banner is bigger and prettier and cooler then yours. I choose not to show it so your feelings do not get hurt.

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          • #6
            Ban them and have sex with their mothers!
            I luv British womenz.

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            • #7
              Any idea if there's an update to phpBB regarding these things? Some sort of security-fix or something, since I can't imagine these spammers manually finding all these boards and registering, thus there might be some security-hole that's being exploited.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Coder
                Any idea if there's an update to phpBB regarding these things? Some sort of security-fix or something, since I can't imagine these spammers manually finding all these boards and registering, thus there might be some security-hole that's being exploited.
                Our board is on the latest version of phpBB (which is why I can't get my HTML BBcode to work again). I could do some digging for a mod that would allow me to turn off signing up completely or something I guess. I have never looked into it.
                My banner is bigger and prettier and cooler then yours. I choose not to show it so your feelings do not get hurt.

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                • #9
                  the way I disable account registrations is to go into the 'disallow names' part of the control pannel, and just put in the wildcard character (*) as the only thing. That won't let anyone register.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by George W Bush
                    the way I disable account registrations is to go into the 'disallow names' part of the control pannel, and just put in the wildcard character (*) as the only thing. That won't let anyone register.

                    cool. that should work then. thanks.
                    My banner is bigger and prettier and cooler then yours. I choose not to show it so your feelings do not get hurt.

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