TGIM & Good Morning! (Jan-17)

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Originally Posted by pc

I thought that vbulletin has some special security plugins for those fuckers.

Originally Posted by Cleo

Seems the spammers have found a way around the version that GG&J is running. Not sure if the latest version has anything better.

Recaptcha + Email Validation on signup. IPs and Emails show no discernable pattern. Akismet on the first 5 posts to throw them into a moderated queue. It does seem to catch most of them, but, they still have to be cleaned up even though most people can't see them. To my knowledge, there are no new spam fighting methods in the more recent versions. I believe the moderator panel allows a little easier cleanup, but, since we keep the threads rather than delete as spam, it wouldn't change anything.

Once in a while they sneak one past the filters.

It is ironic, I was actually debating a method of detecting spam the other day, and again this morning unrelated to the board.

on 76F here, but, with the wind chill, feels like 76F. Hopefully everyone has a productive Monday.